Remembering the aircrew from HMCS Fredericton

Flight Corporal Ian Redden saluted the Canadian Snowbirds as they flew by

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. 

Canada Vignettes: Wop May

 National Film Board Vignettes about Wop May' and the Australian action to take out the Red Baron

Careers in the Canadian Armed Forces

 2014 Recruitment video for the Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Navy and Royal Canadian Airforce

Basic Military Qualification Course

 Recruitment video produced by the Canadian Forces.

The Military Museums Calgary

This institution is made up of 4 Regimental museums of the Canadian army in Western Canada as well as The Royal Canadian Navy and the Royal Canadian Airforce. I visited this site on Friday, April 25, to contemplate the sacrifices made by Canadian men and women in the wars our country has had to fight. As well, I needed a quiet place to think to deal with the loss of my mother. I took so many pictures that I will have to ask my brother in law to help me store them, then once I get back to Japan I can then add them to the blog. It's worth the wait. This museum is the second largest military museum in Canada, only the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa is bigger.

With a T-72 which the Canadian army faced in Bosnia, and Kuwait-Iraq, 

M113 TOW

Churchill tank of The Calgary Regiment used at Dieppe, 1942

6pdr Anti-tank gun, RCA

Outside display of armour 

The entrance to the museum

With a 17pdr Anti-tank gun. My great great cousin used this when he was with the 2nd Anti-Tank Regiment, RCA during the Normandy campaign. 

RMR: Rick at Royal Military College Saint-Jean

 Officer training for all Canadian Forces Officer cadets

PO Robinson Yelling!~!~!~

 Week 6 means you've been in long enough to know what you are supposed to do! Also, make sure you don't call your senior NCO by a rank 3 levels below theirs.

Ah fun times.

Thanks to DND for producing this.

Basic Up: Season 1, Episode 3, 3/3

 This was an interesting series about the recruitment process into the Canadian Forces. Since 1968, all regular force members of the Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Navy and the Royal Canadian Airforce are trained together.

The Royal Canadian Airforce

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When the Canadian Air Force was authorized in February 1920, they were given the dark blue uniform seen in this painting of a pilot ranking as a lieutenant. Rank was shown by the traditional army system of crowns and stars, and pilots wore wings on the left breast. King George V granted the designation Royal Canadian Air Force in 1923. When the service was made a permanent part of the Department of National Defence the following year, it adopted the lighter 'RAF blue' uniform worn by its British counterpart. Reconstruction by Ron Volstad. (Canadian Department of National Defence)

Flight Sergeant, Royal Canadian Air Force, circa 1941-1943

This Flight Sergeant of the RCAF is dressed in the flight suit worn by Commonwealth aircrew in temperate climates. This man wears the life jacket (known as a 'Mae West' after the American actress), oxygen mask and leather flying helmet appropriate to a fighter pilot on operations over the English Channel. The RAF blue battledress was largely identical to that worn by the Royal Air Force, differing most visibly through the addition of 'Canada' over the albatross patches on the upper arm. Reconstruction by Ron Volstad. (Canadian Department of National Defence)
                    

Leading Aircraftwoman, Royal Canadian Air Force Women's Division, 1942-1946

A member of the Royal Canadian Air Force Women's Division, which was formed in 1941 and eventually recruited more than 16,000 volunteers. Beginning in September 1942, many of these women served in Britain; by 1945 more than 1,300 of them were serving there. The Leading Aircraftwoman (her rank is shown by the propeller badge on her sleeve) shown here was a plotter at a Sector Control Room in the south of England. Canadian women serving outside Canada wore the "CANADA" badge on the upper sleeve. Reconstruction by Ron Volstad. (Canadian Department of National Defence)
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