Retirements
12408 LCol Marc Desjardins (CMR RMC ’80) will retire from the CF on 22 July 08 after 32 plus years of loyal and dedicated service to the CF and the CME Branch. Marc has accepted the Director of Realty Asset Plans position within ADM(IE) and will reside in the Ottawa area with his wife Chantal…
In This Issue 15
And the next CDS Is… To find an article: copy title into the search bar on the top of the website and press the ‘enter’ key. To search for an individual: type their name into the search bar and press the ‘enter’ key. 5 UTPNCMs heading back to real world; (W) rugby is back; 1812…
Top Headlines
Message from the Chief of the Defence Staff to the Canadian Forces Overwhelming majority says Hillier did good job Hillier’s holiday AND THE NEXT CDS IS……… vvvvxxxxxx Click on photo for each bio.
What’s Happening At RMC
2008 Graduation Details “We need more UTPNCM graduates because the product is superb. In fact, we need to grow this programme into something three to four times its current size! The only way we’ll be able to do that is to make sure the word of mouth back to the field is positive.” 12192 BGen…
Catching Up With the News
Chief of Air Staff Reviews RMC’s new Aeronautical Engineering Program The newly created Aeronautical Engineering program, housed within the Mechanical Engineering Department at RMC, was pleased to host the Chief of Air Staff, LGen Watt, to discuss the extensive progress of this exciting endeavour. The visit involved a briefing of the milestones achieved to date,…
Ex-Cadets in the News
Local Sarnia, Ontario – Ex cadet, 22906 Chelsea Braybrook (RMC ’04), helps rebuild By CATHY DOBSON The Observer – Sarnia, Ontario – 15 April Cathy Gibson sees her daughter’s smile in the photographs sent back from Afghanistan and she’s not surprised Capt. Chelsea Braybrook wants to extend her tour of duty. “I think she feels…
Where are they now?
3141 Dr. John Kyle (RRMC ’53); 5708 William (Tory) Payne (CMR RMC ’63); 8417 Dr. David Green (RMC ’70); 10073 Charles Barkman (RMC ’75); 12046 Pierre Ducharme (CMR ’79); 13710 Bruce Beavis (CMR RMC ’82); 13991 Frederick Bigelow (RRMC ’83); 15414 Catherine Paquet-Rivard (CMR ’86); 16171 Mario Asselin (CMR RMC ’88); 17386 Glen Schlyter…
Flashback | Rétrospective
Update on the Top Aces 17428 Paul Bouchard (RRMC RMC ’90), 19282 Didier Toussaint (CMR RMC ’90) and 18846 Dave Jennings (RMC ’93), three former CF-18 pilots, founded Top Aces Inc. in Pointe Claire, QC in 2000. They first
Extra Innings
Raytheon — GENERAL HILLIERS STEPS DOWN AS CDS — On Tuesday April 15 General Rick Hillier, Chief of the Defence Staff, announced that he would be stepping down from this role in July. Links to the English and French versions of the official statement are below. English French
Notices | Avis
The Royal Military College, Saint-Jean (CMR Saint-Jean) invites applications for tenure track positions in: Mathematics, Social Sciences and Humanities, French Literature and English Literature at the assistant professor level or, exceptionally, at a level appropriate with the candidate’s experience. CMR Saint-Jean, a college-level institution was established in January 2008. Its mandate is to prepare High-School…
Trivia | Bagatelle
Who am I * Under exercise conditions, as a cadet-midshipman in HMCS Yukon in an exercise off Northern Ireland where HMS Ocelot tried to penetrate our screen, we in the surface ship were able to continue tracking a highly-evasive conventional submarine until we forced it to the surface. * I had been on board HMCS…
Retirements
Ratheon 10101 Commander Robert (Bob) S Edwards (RMC ’74) MARS 00207 (718) will retire from the Reg F on 9 Jun 08 after 37 plus years of loyal and dedicated service to Canada and the CF. Cdr Robert Edwards, a MARS officer, joined the CF in 1970 and graduated from RMC with an honours bachelor…