The Canadian Armed Forces Chief Military Engineer, MGen J.S. Sirois, is pleased to announce the appointment of CWO Glenn Simpkin as the Canadian Military Engineer Branch Chief Warrant Officer effective APS 2017.
Chimo!
Reprinted from National Defence News March 3, 2017 – Ottawa
Brigadier-General Daniel MacIsaac assumed command of Joint Task Force-Iraq (JTF-I) at a ceremony today at Camp Canada in Kuwait. Rear-Admiral Bob Auchterlonie, Deputy Commander Canadian Joint Operations Command, presided over the ceremony.
Taking over as Commander of JTF-I from Brigadier-General Shane Brennan, Brigadier-General MacIsaac will command Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) personnel deployed on Operation IMPACT…
Army News Article / February 22, 2017 / Project number: 16-0031
By WO William Finnamore, Diving Inspector, Canadian Armed Forces Directorate of Diving Safety
Ottawa, Ontario — Imagine sitting on the dive boat all geared up and ready for entry into the water. It’s a nice warm sunny day and the task at hand is a relatively easy one. The dive supervisor has done his checks and you and your dive buddy are told to enter the water and dive.
As your head goes below the waterline…
The CMEA has adopted a new member management system that features a much easier to use and much fuller description of your personal profile. It will assist you in finding friends and colleagues with similar background and help us identify which Chapter a member should belong to as well as what other groups you participate in. The new system is completely Canadian as is our new membership payment system.
Please click here and update your profile now!
The CMEA's Annual Bursary Program awards up to six $1000 educational bursaries to CMEA members and their dependents across Canada. This year two such bursaries were awarded to Talia Morgan, Spouse of Cpl Morgan-Boudreau (4ESR) and Tyler Snook, Son of MWO Brian Snook, CD (CFSME). Talia Morgan currently attends NBCC Woodstock's LPN program and plans to attend Nurses College to become a Registered Nurse. Tyler Snook is a third-year student at Queens University in Kingston ON.…
A picture says a thousand words and these pictures show the dynamic growth and success of the CMEA's partnership with TD's Home & Automobile Insurance affinity programme. Download the attached file to see the whole story.
By 2Lt Jim Wood, UPAR, The British Columbia Dragoons
Photos by: Cpl John Swannack, The British Columbia Dragoons
Napoleon had more than a hundred maxims of war. His first was that mountains and rivers often serve as effective barriers, and a good many of the remainder centre on how and when to cross them. Others stress the importance of knowing what lies on the other side, especially when it comes to determining an enemy’s intentions. Two-hundred-year-old advice, but the…
Originally published in eVeritas June 2010
22807 Capt Michelle Whitty (RMC 2004) is a civil engineer and Combat Engineer Officer currently at the Mapping and Charting Establishment (MCE) which provides Geospatial Information and Geomatics Support to the Canadian Forces. She recently returned from a six-month tour of duty to Kandahar Airfield (KAF) as the Battle Group Engineer Plans Officer. In battle, the primary role of Engineers is to help the army live, move and…
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Par Nicolas Laffont 1 février 2017
Ils étaient près de 4000 au début du processus, et désormais sur les 70 premiers candidats qui passent à l’étape 2 de sélection du prochain astronaute canadien, pas moins de 15 d’entre eux sont militaires des Forces armées canadiennes!
Les astronautes sont des explorateurs modernes. Ils naviguent courageusement autour de la Terre pour contribuer à l’acquisition de nouvelles connaissances scientifiques. Leur courage et…
Reprinted from Daily Commercial News
By Angela Gismondi, 1 February 2017
This is the first of a two-part Daily Commercial News series exploring military construction and engineering training exercises that are being conducted across Canada. The exercises are meant to ensure Canadian Armed Forces engineers and reserve force combat engineers are ready to serve the country by building the necessary infrastructure required for military operations at home or abroad. The first…
