On 21 July 22, in front of a small group of family, friends, and colleagues, Major Rick Dunning was presented his CD3 by Major- General Horgan.
Major Dunning first joined the CAF in 1979 as a Reservist with the Lanark and Renfrew Scottish Regiment. He transitioned to the Regular Force in 1981 as a Combat Engineer, and in 1986 became a Firefighter. He commissioned in 1999, and in 2016 transferred back to the Primary Reserves. He’s served in almost all RCAF locations, and has…
By Cpl Kyle Scott (Ret’d)
For the past six years, I have been devoting much of my spare time to creating awareness of the Canadian Honours system among the serving and retired forces community. Specifically, those honours to which ex-soldiers, sailors and aviators may be entitled. This mission eventually led to creating a Facebook group to try and reach a wider audience. The name of the group is Canadian Veterans owed or missing medals.
A little back story on why I care so…
1. Applications are open to CMEA members and dependents of current or deceased CMEA members.
2. Applicants must have completed or be in their final year of secondary schooling and preparing to attend or continuing a program at a certified post-secondary educational institution.
3. The bursary program consists of nine individual educational bursaries of $2,000 to be awarded annually for the year of study starting in September to nine applicants based on the eligibility and…
Greetings to all fellow Engineers,
With the upcoming retirement of CWO S. Merriam, MB, CD, we have a new CME Br CWO, effective 06 July 2022.
Farewell and thank-you, CWO Merriam, for your dedication to the Branch and for sharing your expertise and advice over the past two years.
Welcome to the appointment, CWO D. Jones, CD, our new CME Br CWO.
CHIMO!
On Saturday, 9 July, the Colonel Commandant, MGen Benjamin and CME CWO Jones attended a ceremony in Truro, NS where the Prime Minister and the Minister of National Defence delivered an apology for the systemic anti-Black racism endured by members of No. 2 Construction Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. The CO 4 Engineer Support Regiment, LCol Dixon and his RSM, CWO Sloot, were part of the Ceremony to recognize this racism before, during, and long after the First…
p>A new chapter for CFFCA Command team.
On 20 June 2022, Canadian Forces Fire & CBRN Academy (CFFCA) conducted a Change of Appointment. CWO Donnie Matthews relinquished his appointment as the Unit Chief Warrant Officer to CWO Jeremy Buckingham. The ceremony was presided by Major Teslin Bruhn, CFFCA Commandant.
Thank you CWO Matthews and welcome CWO Buckingham.
From “The Korean War Veteran” June 19, 2022
A Canadian Korean War Veteran will be buried in the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Busan on Tuesday, June 22, three days before the 72nd anniversary of the June 25, 1950 start of the Korean War.
Soldat John Joseph Jean Robert Cormier will be the 13th veteran from one of the overseas nations that served with United Nations Forces during the 1950-1953 war to be laid to rest in the veterans section of the expansive cemetery in…
The Major General John Arthur Stewart Trophy is awarded annually to the top Military Engineer cadet in their graduating year from the Royal Military College Kingston. Sponsored by the Canadian Military Engineer Association, the award is based on high standards of proficiency in each of the four components of RMC: academic studies, athletic capability, military performance and bilingualism.
On 18 May 2022, MGen Dan Benjamin, our Colonel Commandant, presented the…
The “Faces to Graves” project in the Netherlands has reported in their Spring 2022 Newsletter that it has now published about 550 life stories on their website. The newsletter includes a number of interesting ‘stories behind the stories.’ New life stories are being added every week and the group intends to eventually tell the stories of the more than 2300 Canadians who rest in Groesbeek. The newsletter is attached.
We continue to work on telling the stories of the 69 Sappers…
Tim MacCormac served a tour in Bosnia with 2 CER, one in Afghanistan with 1 CER and a second Afghan tour on a training mission. With his recently published book, Sand Searchers, Tim tells us about Afghanistan, its people, the war and the part Canada played. In his own words,
"Understanding a mysterious and beautiful country as Afghanistan, is to understand the complexity of extremism. As a foreign soldier in a foreign country, I came to understand not only the…
