CWO Ouellet is from Ferland-Boilleau, Québec. He joined the Canadian Forces on 09 June 75 and underwent recruit training CFB St-Jean, QC. Upon completion of recruit training, he completed second language training at CFB Borden, ON. He was then posted to the Canadian Forces School of Military Engineering, CFB Chilliwack, BC, for trade training.
At completion of qualification level 3 training in September 1976, CWO Ouellet was posted to the Construction Engineering section at CFB St-Jean, QC, where he was employed as an apprentice drafting/survey and then as a draftsman and surveyor.
In January 1979, he was attached posted to CFB Europe, Lahr, Germany, for a pre-determined period on a special project as a draftsman/surveyor until December 1979 and was then returned to his home unit at CFB St-Jean.
In July 1980, CWO Ouellet was transferred to 2nd Canadian Engineer Regiment, CFB Petawawa, ON, where he was employed as the draftsman/surveyor for the regiment until his transfer in May 1981 to 5th Canadian Engineer Regiment at CFB Valcartier, QC, where he was employed as the draftsman/surveyor of the regiment and got promoted to master corporal on September 1982.
In July 1983, CWO Ouellet was transferred to CFB Petawawa, ON, at the Construction Engineering Section as a draftsman/surveyor and was promoted to sergeant in July 1984.
In July 1988, CWO Ouellet was transferred in the Construction Engineering section in the position of contract inspector at CFB Moose Jaw, SK. Promoted to the rank of warrant officer in August 1989, he then was moved to the contract officer position.
In July 1990, he was transferred to 1st Construction Engineering Unit, CFB Winnipeg where he was employed as second in command of the drafting room of the unit. CWO Ouellet moved with the unit in August 1995 to CFB Moncton, NB.
In August 1996, CWO Ouellet was then transferred to Construction Engineering Section, CFB Shilo, MB, where he was employed as the quality assurance inspector and then as foreman of a special building demolition project for the base.
In December 1998, CWO Ouellet was transferred to the Construction Engineering Section at CFB Winnipeg, MB, where he was employed in the planning office to later take over the position of contract officer. In July 2001, CWO Ouellet was promoted to the rank of master warrant officer where he was employed as the Operation Director to then take over the position of Unit Master Warrant Officer from July 2003 to August 2005.
In Augsut 2005, CWO Ouellet was transferred to Construction Engineering section at CFB Bagotville, QC, where he was employed as the Unit Master Warrant Officer in conjunction with being the supervisor of the client services department.
In June 2006, CWO Ouellet was promoted to the rank of Chief Warrant Officer where he assumed the position of CWO for the Logistic Division at CFB Bagotville, QC, until now.
CWO Ouellet was also deployed on a few occasions; CFS Alert in August 1990 (Production Officer), Bosnia in June 1997 (drafting office supervisor), CFS Alert in August 2000 (Production Officer), CFS Alert in August 2004 (Station Warrant Officer) and finally Kandahar Afghanistan in January 08.
CWO has remarried and has two (2) children from a previous marriage; Cynthia et Kevin, and three (3) grand-children, Chanse-Tia, Joseph-Léo and Kyle-Ashlee.