1. AFTER 9 YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE IN THE LINE TRADE MCPL HANGER WILL BE TAKING AN EARLY RETIREMENT FROM THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES ON THE 27TH OF OCTOBER 2024.

2. MCPL HANGER ENROLLED IN THE CAF AS AN ACISS DET MEMBER ON 15 OCTOBER 2015 AT THE CANADIAN FORCES RECRUITING CENTRE IN TORONTO, ON. AFTER COMPLETING BASIC TRAINING, MCPL HANGER WAS POSTED TO PEACE SUPPORT TRAINING CENTER (PSTC) WHERE THEY WERE COURSE LOADED ONTO SQ AND AWAITED DP1.0. AFTER A LONG WAIT FOR TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES, THEY RECEIVED A POSTING TO 2 HQ & SIGS IN PETAWAWA ONTARIO, ONLY TO BE SHIPPED OFF ACROSS THE COUNTRY FOR EX. MAPLE RESOLVE IN THE ROLLING HILLS OF WAINWRIGHT, ALBERTA IN APRIL 2017. THIS EXERCISE CONFIRMED THEIR DESIRE TO JOIN THE GREATEST TRADE IN THE CAF; THE LINE TRADE. FOLLOWING THE COMPLETION OF DP1.1 IN 2018, DESTINY CALLED, AND WAINWRIGHT WAS WHERE MCPL HANGER WAS DESTINED TO BE AND AS SUCH, A POSTING TO 3 LINE SQN DET WAINWRIGHT FOLLOWED. MCPL HANGER HONED THEIR SKILLS AND ASSISTED IN BASE CABLE PLANT MAINTENANCE WITH LOCAL LINE WORK CENTER (LLWC). DURING THEIR TENURE IN WAINWRIGHT, MCPL HANGER HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DEPLOY ON OP IMPACT TO SUPPORT AASAB IN KUWAIT, AS WELL AS, ON TAVS TO LEBANON AND JORDAN EARNING THEM THE GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL IN 2022. AFTER RETURNING HOME FROM KUWAIT, IT WAS FINALLY TIME TO LEAVE THE WILD ROSE COUNTRY AND HEAD BACK TO ONTARIO AND START A NEW CHAPTER AT 1 LINE SQN NATIONAL LINE WORK CENTRE (NLWC). MCPL HANGER’S TIME AT 1 LINE WAS BRIEF BUT EVENTFUL, WITH DEPLOYMENTS TO ALERT NUNAVUT, LATVIA FOR OP REASSURANCE WHERE THEY WERE AWARDED THE SPECIAL SERVICE MEDAL IN 2023, AND FINALLY GERMANY IN 2024 IN SUPPORT OF OP UNIFIER.

3. BRANDON WILL BE STARTING A NEW LIFE ATTENDING SCHOOL IN VANCOUVER TO BECOME AN ELECTRICIAN, BUILDING ON THE SKILLS LEARNED WITHIN THE LINE TRADE. AN INFORMAL DWD LUNCHEON WILL BE HELD AT THE KINGSTON CURLING CLUB @ 1230HRS ON 17 OCT 24. ANY CONGRATULATORY MESSAGES CAN BE SENT TO WO DANH AT [email protected].