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Are you motivated? 1CMBG snipers looking for fit, dedicated infantry soldiers
The role of a sniper in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) is more than remaining hidden and waiting for a target to come into view. While that may be a sniper’s primary role, they also play an integral role in supporting their units by providing surveillance and reconnaissance information.
PHOTO ESSAY: Skateboard park receiving new concrete base to secure trick apparatus
Base Transport heavy equipment operators removed asphalt from the skateboard park north of CANEX
Advice for posting season — keep all receipts, read all documents before signing
For the neophyte receiving their first posting season message, there’s plenty to do before you depart CFB Shilo and your next CAF destination.
It requires teamwork: Meet players behind your relocation during posting season
Relocation is a necessity in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). Why? Because it ensures CAF members are provided the professional development and experiential opportunities to train in a variety of work environments and locations, both inside and outside Canada.
Col Josiah Holmes 1845-1928 — Military pioneer in Canada commanded C Bty on Vancouver Island
Who was Col Josiah G. Holmes? Recently, Stag editor Jules Xavier shared with me a photograph of what appeared to be the grave of a high-ranking military officer while visiting historic Ross Bay Cemetery in BC’s capital on Vancouver Island.
2PPCLI introduce Stag editor to infantry skills during Ex KAPYONG FURY, WARRIOR
It was a two-shower experience I recall after spending more than eight hours on my inaugural 2PPCLI exercise after taking on the Stag editor’s job in 2012. That’s how many showers this multi-media journalist required to clean the dirt from any exposed skin after riding in the back of an open LAV during Ex KAPYONG FURY.
Former 2PPCLI DCO visits grave of last CEF soldier KIA during Great War
It was a sombre moment for a former 2PPCLI DCO during a visit to St. Symphorien Military Cemetery, located just southeast of Mons, Belgium.
106 years ago on April 9 in France — May brothers survive Battle of Vimy Ridge
A veteran of the Battle of Vimy Ridge 106 years ago left his descendants a treasure trove of black and white photographs and memories he kept in scrapbooks. Using his trusty Kodak film camera, Bill May captured images at the now defunct Camp Hughes when it was a hive of activity as Canadian soldiers trained on the prairies before heading overseas as members of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) during the Great War.
Vimy centennial experience ‘moving’ for Capt (Ret’d) Megan Couto
Standing at ease nearby the historic Vimy monument, then 2PPCLI A Coy 2IC Capt Megan Couto thought of the soldiers going into battle on April 9, 1917. It was a chilly Easter Monday when the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France did what the French and British armies had failed to do — they seized the best-defended German bastion on the Western Front, a muddy scarp known as the Vimy Ridge.
PHOTO ESSAY: Royal Manitoba Winter Fair
CFB Shilo BComd LCol Chris Wood and wife Lisa were part of the opening evening ceremonies, arriving at Westoba Place arena by horse-drawn carriage.
