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“The CF-18 is the most challenging and dynamic aircraft in the Canadian Air Force” said Captain Erickson. “When you intercept a contact, the closing speed can be more than one kilometer a second, and that doesn’t give you much time to react.”

21955 Captain Riel “Guns” Erickson (RMC ’01)

Ed: Readers who may have missed the much heralded Jetstream series in the Spring may be pleased to know that “reruns” commence friday 15 August to October 3rd 2008 (7pm EST) on DISCOVERY HD.

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Colonel George Lackonick, the Colonel Commandant of the Communications and Electronics Branch, shared his foot-care ritual. “I soak my feet, and I’ve got a set of wooden rollers that I use after marching to massage them,” he said. “In the morning, I rub Vaseline into each toe and the arch. I wear a silk-type inner sock, and I put a good hiking sock over that. I’ve never had a blister.” This is his ninth Nijmegen.

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