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Back in Canada following 3 Years Abroad
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6611 Author Doug Cope Keeping Us On Our Toes!
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1976 “N” Flight mini-reunion
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Back in Canada following 3 Years Abroad
After 6 years in the Project Management Office (PMO) of the Montreal University Hospitals construction projects, Patrick Pressoir left the project in late 2012 to embark on a family adventure to Morocco. His wife took on an international assignment to open a new Bombardier manufacturing facility in Casablanca so they packed up and moved the entire family to North Africa for a couple of years.
While there, Patrick started an virtual marketing agency and did some freelance consulting work. After making the best of their time abroad, they moved back to the Montreal area and he recently accepted the post of Director of Procurement at Héma Québec.
Despite the new job Patrick intends to continue running marathons and his online marketing agency, TheMarketingGuerrillas.com, offering a variety of services to select clients.
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6611 Doug Cope Keeping Us On Our Toes!
This is just another gripe or complaint from an old coot ex-cadet. I am certain you receive many.
Well here is the story.
One of my friends from Ottawa was at RMC last week to see his youngest daughter, Olivia Frank, graduate.
When I checked the related issue of eVeritas I saw that there was the text of an interview that a young cadet reporter had with my friend and his daughter.
All that was fine except this young reporter obviously had only a vague knowledge of a place called Royal Roads.
It was surprising to discover that this reporter seemed to think that the place was named after or founded by Cecil Rhodes.
If they still require first year cadets to know the old eighteen I would have thought that they might have also given them a brief history of Canada’s military colleges so they at least know how to spell the names correctly.
Maybe they should make my book, The Roadants, compulsory reading in first year history.
The particular excerpt.
Cheers
6611 Doug Cope
Editor 1 : We subsequently corrected the error.
2: The Roadants book by Doug Cope is available from the RMC Club Gift Shop
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1976 “N” Flight mini-reunion
On 25 May Chez Lucien in Ottawa played host to a mini-reunion of three veterans of Brock Squadron’s 1976 “N” Flight. In attendance were 12488 LCdr (ret) Gord Aucoin, 12497 LCol (soon to be retired) Chris Blodgett, and 12570 Mike Kennedy.
Over their Chez Lucien burgers and beer, the three attendees reminisced about that fateful day, 22 August 1976, about the good times and bad that unfolded during the weeks and months that followed their arrival at the College, and in particular, about the unforgettable characters they were fortunate enough to meet along the way. All three were among the fifteen members of the Flight that successfully completed recruit year, during which time they all distinguished themselves through their remarkable ability to collect circles and drill.squads.
Particularly noteworthy is the fact that Aucoin and Blodgett were roommates in recruit camp. Not only did they both survive that experience without killing each other, but to this day they apparently remain best buddies 39 years after we all met one another. It’s but one example of the kind of lasting friendships that are forged under fire at RMC, and that you never see anywhere else.
The three miscreants are all planning to attend the Class of 1980 reunion this fall, and the word is out that they are hoping that all other veterans of ‘N” Flight who are still alive and kicking will join them. Stay tuned for further reports about their misadventures then and now.