2020, looking forward to more fun with cadets

One thing I am eagerly awaiting is my call up for becoming an officer cadet as my paperwork is being processed.
Unfortunately due to the Covid 19 Pandemic all cadet training was put on hold.

652 Squadron Christmas parade

Cpl. Ian Redden top piper basic course CTC Argonaut 2019

he was still at at ease position

then given stand easy

Corporal Ian Redden plays with the Northern Nova Scotia Cadets Pipes and drums CFB Halifax

Today the cadets and military bands gave a concert highlighting the musical abilities of the cadet movement in Nova Scotia.
My son, Ian  has been playing for a year
now

LAC Redden passing out parade, 14 Wing Greenwood CTC

Marching off the parade to the muster point for demobilization

forming up for the parade, all 500 cadets

Leena and I had just enough time to get a parking spot and a place to sit and enjoy our supper, from the Pizza Delight just outside the base. Ian was pleased that he could get to eat pizza on the way home.

Leena and I wait for the parade to begin. she was a super trooper, never whinned or fused once.

one of the cadets taking up position for the colour guard

the runway we were on,was still flying pc orions off it.

all 500 cadets and band dressing

as it got cooler, we put our shirts on

a proud and steady cadet ready to go home.

Royal Canadian Air Cadet promotion

Ian is now a Leading Air Cadet

Enlistment into Royal Canadian Air Cadets

Both my son and I have enlisted in to 652 Squadron Milford and District Lions Club Royal Canadian Air Cadets.
I'm in the process of switching over from Navy League to Air Cadets.

 

Air Cadet Redden at Halloween party. He's wearing a Canadian Forces Olive Combat shirt, his chest rig was from a Halloween costume set he got two years ago. His cap is a Korean Reserve Army which I bought in South Korea in 1997.

Air Cadet singing a song of rememberance which he was a soloist at his school

the veterans and cadets march from the Elmsdale Legion to the Elmsdale Cenotaph. The camera angle changes as I was trying to go for wide angle.

I am also in the process of switching over from Navy League to Air Cadets.