Canadian military wants new F-35 fighter jets
Jet setter. Major-General T.J. Lawson, assistant chief of the Canadian military’s Air Staff, was in Mississauga last week to talk about the F-35 fighter jet. Construction of the aircraft will bring jobs to Mississauga. Photo by Chris Horobin
“We’re not only defending Canada,” said Lawson. “We’re also doing that with a partner to the south who expects us to meet our NORAD obligations.”
12192 Major-General Tom Lawson
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Troops hone firing skills with new tank technology
21212 Major Derek Chenette
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1 R22eR BG begins its tour overseas
“The members of 1 RCR BG prepared us very well. They made a point of giving us as much information and knowledge as possible about the terrain,”
18254 Lieutenant-Colonel Michel-Henri St-Louis, commanding officer of 1 R22eR BG.
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Canadian patrol crew visits NORAD
“From a user perspective, we were just given our orders and we’d go out and fly a mission, come back and the information goes in a box somewhere,”
23181 Captain Daniel Klco, a 407 Squadron pilot
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1 RCR conducts counter-insurgency operations
21554 Major Eleanor Taylor
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NSE supplies Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan
“Everyone here is working for the guy out in his tank in the middle of the desert with only water and rations,”
18777 NSE Commander Lieutenant-Colonel Sébastien Bouchard
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Compensation: Fredericton politician goes against the grain
“I’d support an independent panel,”
19874 Brian Macdonald, the MLA for Fredericton-Silverwood
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