In This Issue 20
Photo of the Week The First Canadian Parachute Prize awarded to the Sandhurst team member having been voted the most outstanding by his peers was awarded to OCdt Jeremy Jobin (4th Year, Combat Engr). He received the trophy from Rick Mercer and RMCC Cmdt, BGen Al Meinzinger following the Sandhurst demonstration which was part of…
Royal Military College of Canada: 99th Convocation Ceremony
Photos by Curtis Maynard – Click for better viewing Guard of Honour – Rick Mercer & MND – Back-to-Back By: WJO & 26659 OCdt (II) Danielle Andela This past Thursday (15 May) saw a contingent of Officer Cadets of the Royal Military College of Canada formed up with rifles to greet the The Honourable Robert…
Indoor Commissioning Parade Doesn’t Disappoint
219 New Officers Receive Commissioning Scrolls Indoors By: WJO Threatening weather, 90% chance of heavy rains, in the forecast, prompted the commandant, BGen Al Meinzinger to make the call 18 hours in advance that the 2014 commissioning parade would move indoors to the Kingston Military Community Sports Centre. And a good call it was!…
Sunset Ceremony: Rain Held Off – Well Almost!
Sunset Ceremony – I Year Pretty Impressed! By: 26946 OCdt (I) Ian Saciuk I personally have no basis for comparison, being a new first-year cadet here at the college, but the word from the upper years here has been that the Sunset Parade this year was the best there ever was. I would gladly say…
Cérémonies de fin d’année au Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean / End of Year Ceremonies at Royal Military College Saint-Jean
Cérémonies de fin d’année au Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean Le 17 mai 2014 – Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec – ministère de la Défense nationale Le Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean a souligné la fin de l’année scolaire par un défilé ce matin après avoir remis un certificat ou un diplôme d’études collégiales à quelque 117 élèves‑officiers hier…
Journée nationale de commémoration Afghanistan
Photo2. Après les deux minutes de silence, le Colonel Carignan, Commandant du CMR Saint-Jean, a pris la parole avec émotion pour reconnaître ceux qui avait été en mission et pour remercier leurs familles qui les avaient soutenus de manière indéfectible. Crédit photo : Mario Poirier. – Un article de l’Élève-officier Antoine Viscardi Les élèves-officiers et…
Where are they now? In his own words: 5586 Ian Mottershead
After receiving my degree and commission, the most interesting military activity I was involved with occurred a few months later in October, 1962 when my ship along with most of the Canadian Atlantic fleet joined US ships and British submarines in the naval quarantine associated with the Cuban missile crisis. Most of what I know…
Ex-Cadets Abroad – Connecting with 7573 Terry McCoy in Panama
E3161 Victoria Edwards (RMC 2003) is doing a series of E-veritas interviews with Ex Cadets living abroad. She interviewed 7573 Captain Ret’d Terry McCoy (CMR 63-66 & RMC 66-68), who lives in Panama. e-veritas: Your father was in the military: Is that how you became interested in travelling and living overseas? Terry McCoy: When I…
Two Ex Cadets Being Honoured By France: 2652 Britt Smith & 2816 Bill Turner
Kingstonians being honoured by France By Sue Yanagisawa, Kingston Whig-Standard Seventy years later and there is no ‘official’ casualty figure for D-Day — June 6, 1944 — the day allied troops, mainly from Canada, the U.S. and Britain, fought their way across the beaches of Normandy. But that was just the beginning. The battle of…
Louis-David “Germ” Germain Pulling the Plug in June
22788 Capt Louis-David “Germ” Germain, CD, P.Eng. (RMC ’04) will retire from the CF in June 2014, after 15 years of service. He has accepted a position with Transport Canada as Flight Test Engineer for the National Aircraft Certification branch in Ottawa. Germ and his wife 22799 Major Maryse Therrien, CD (RMC ’04) just had…
Claude Scilley In Conversation With Darren Cates, Director of Athletics
About the author Claude Scilley is a journalist who spent most of his career in the sports department of the Kingston Whig-Standard, where he began covering high school and intercollegiate sports – including reporting on athletics at RMC since 1972. A leading authority on all levels of sport in the Kingston area over the last…
2014 Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department Awards
Every spring, the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department staff and students come together to recognize the efforts and achievements of the top 3rd and 4th year students. The awards are named after pioneers in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering who were also significant contributors and mentors at RMC. This year we added a 2nd year award…