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A Life Of Risks To Save Lives
In his career as a search-and-rescue specialist, Warrant Officer Arnold Macauley had made more than 500 parachute jumps-but never in such grim conditions as just before midnight on Oct. 31, 1991. That night, Macauley and 16 other search-and-rescue technicians, most of them from 413 Squadron, based at Nova Scotia's CFB Greenwood, were aboard a Hercules...
Lets Not Forget Our Cold War Heros
On Remembrance Day, our thoughts should also turn to the thousands of Canadians who served overseas with the RCAF's No. 1 Air Division as part of NATO. The tough years were endured mostly from the 1950s to the early 1960s.
Canada was at the forefront in the foundation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1949, and agreed to contribute ...
The Country the World Forgot - Again!
Until the deaths last week of four Canadian soldiers accidentally killed by a US warplane in Afghanistan, probably almost no one outside their home country had been aware that Canadian troops were deployed in the region. And as always, Canada will now bury its dead, just as the rest of the world as always will forget its sacrifice, just as it always...
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