After months of hard work and determination, personnel from 1 Engineer Support Unit (ESU), CFB Kingston can call their mission complete. The unit, which provides deployable, specialist military engineering services to the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and other government departments anywhere in the world, completed the design and construction of a $4.6 million camp in support of Operation IMPACT 2.0 in Erbil, Iraq.
Initially designed to support a tactical aviation squadron,…
By LCol Claire Bramma, RCE, CO Mapping and Charting Establishment
This article is an amplification of Don Cooke’s article “The Royal Sappers & Miners Cemetery, Newboro” published in CHIMO in April 2016.
From 16 to 22 September 2016 a 15-person crew of former and current Royal Military College (RMC) cadets paddled a war canoe from Ottawa to Kingston along the historic Rideau Canal waterway. Our crew is known as “La Chasse Galerie” and represents a blend of Franco-Canadien…
By Capt Matt Sukstorf, 19 Wing Fire Chief
17 Oct to 29 Oct 2016 saw members of the RCAF Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) team complete training to become Technical Search Specialists and Structural Collapse Technicians. The intensive training took place with FEMA’s Massachusetts Task Force 1 (Mass TF1) in Beverly, MA. Members of the USAR team were trained on a variety of subjects such as effective detection and confirmation of victims in collapsed buildings and rubble piles,…
24 Oct – 23 Nov 2016
by Cpl MJ Lelievre, 2 CER
With a military exercise coming for 2CMBG (Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group), 2CER (Combat Engineer Regiment) HET (Heavy Equipment Troop) is looked towards to support Regimental Exercise STORMING SAPPER and Brigade Exercise STORMING BEAR. During the exercises, HET has been tasked with the expansion of the compound and support to the Field Squadrons. 2 CER HET is capable of overcoming any challenges that 2 CMBG sends our way.…
14 Construction Engineering Squadron (CES) attended Deployment for Training (DFT) in Fort Indiantown Gap, PA (FTIG) on 12-26 May, 2016. The squadron sent equal representation from each of its four CE Reserve flights - 91 CEF Gander, 143 CEF Lunenburg, 144 CEF Pictou, 192 CEF Aldergrove – to conduct training at FTIG. A total of 30 members from 14 CES attended the DFT.
Fort Indiantown Gap (FTIG) is known as one of the “Big Three” National Guard training posts in the United…
Written by Capt Nicholas Bonderoff, OC 46 ES, 38 CER
During two weeks in September 2016, members of 38 Combat Engineer Regiment (CER) constructed a Pedestrian Suspension Bridge across the Moose Jaw River completing the Trans Canada Trail through Saskatchewan.
Once at the bridge site in Moose Jaw, the towers were assembled and the construction of the bridge commence. Both squadrons from Saskatoon and Winnipeg also came to Moose Jaw allowing for a regimental exercise during…
The Chief of Military Personnel recently announced the following promotions, appointments and retirements for colonels and RCN captains. He wished deepest appreciation for the service and sacrifices of those moving on to retirement, and offered heartfelt congratulations and sincerest best wishes to those taking on new appointments and new responsibilities.(CANFORGEN 042/17)
Among those listed are the following CME officers:
Col C Ayotte
Appointed Director…
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…
