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By Cliff Kenyon. It’s hard to imagine that there is a unit at 4 Wing Cold Lake that can trace its beginnings to people waving flags at each other to communicate important messages. But that’s where it all began for today’s Wing Telecommunications and Information Services (WTIS) Flight and on Oct. 24 some 4 Wing members celebrated their 116 year history with a cake and presentations. They were marking the proud past of the Royal Canadian Corp of Signals who started in about 1903 commuting on the battlefield using semaphores. No one at WTIS now knows how to send messages by semaphore. What was once quite simple nowadays is far more complex. Now they talk of satellites and computer networks and perhaps most importantly security. “It’s good to celebrate out own history and showcase our history with others,” said Major Kris Hjalmarson. The approximately 90 members of the flight, some of them civilians but mostly Canadian Armed Forces members, are tasked with keeping all telecommunications on the wing operating smoothly and safely in a secure space. That may include the computer you use daily at your desk, the networks that connect it to other computers and communications from the air […]
Join your colleagues – serving, retired, families and friends – to commemorate the sacrifice of Canada’s military and liberation of the Dutch 75 years ago. A professional celebration of Canadian history and the heroism of our communicators. Space is still available, sign-up now! Registration Form – Liberation of Netherlands 2020 Signals.2020.poster.itinerary.v7
Dear C&E Friends, Attached is a short article from the Canadian Military Family Magazine on the use of poppies around the world. https://www.cmfmag.ca/history/poppies-from-around-the-world/
Ex NS traditionally takes place each year at CFSCE, Kingston during C&E Week festivities. Its purpose is to verify our tertiary means of intercontinental communications using HF sky-wave propagation. Teams from across the globe participate and attempt to establish comms with the most teams, under various conditions, in a competitive format. Over the years, the exercise continued to increase in size with more domestic and international teams registering to compete. This year, Ex NS witnessed an all-time high of 180 teams. Competitors came from multiple Canadian units spanning the Regular and Reserve Force as well as representatives from the USA, UK, Peru, Latvia, New Zealand, Australia, Italy, Poland, Libya, Iraq, and Haiti. This year’s winning team was our very own 34 Signal Regiment from Westmount, Quebec. As a means to provide an incentive to this growing pool of teams, a trophy was purchased for the 2018 iteration of the competition to commemorate the winning teams for years to come. The Trophy will be updated yearly with the winning team’s name with the trophy displayed in a place of prominence at the C&E Museum. It should be noted that the hard work and dedication of Branch members are the real back […]