Remembering the aircrew from HMCS Fredericton

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

New Entry Cadet Ian Redden NLCC Bidwell

New Entry Cadet Ian Redden

NLCC Bidwell

Ready Aye Ready

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.

Canadian Commandos

Rating, Beach Commando 'W', Royal Canadian Navy, 1944

The Royal Canadian Navy had only one unit that bore the famous designation 'commando'. Beach Commando 'W' was trained to go ashore in the dark before the first assault troops. Their mission was to secure beach area and send out signals with information about the conditions for landing. Despite months of training in Scotland, the Canadians were not sent ashore on D-Day. They landed three days later to relieve Beach Commando 'P,’ a British unit. They spent many weeks as troubleshooters and traffic police, guiding landing craft to safely ashore and sending men and equipment to their destinations. This rating is shown in 1942-issue British battle dress, wearing the new Mk III helmet and carrying a Lanchester machine gun. The unit wore the Combined Operations Patch as well as 'Canada' flashes on the upper arm. Reconstruction by Ron Volstad. (Canadian Department of National Defence) (www.cmhg.gc.ca)