Retirements
1. APRÈS 14 ANNÉES DE BONS ET LOYAUX SERVICES, LE SGT LECLERC PRENDRA SA RETRAITE DU CORPS DES TRANSMISSIONS ROYAL DU CANADA ET DES FORCES ARMÉES CANADIENNES LE 10 JUIN 2018. 2. LE SGT LECLERC S’EST ENRÔLÉ DANS LA FORCE RÉGULIÈRE EN AOÛT 2004 AU CENTRE DE RECRUTEMENT DE CHICOUTIMI COMME OPÉRATEUR RADIO. 3. SUITE À L’ENTRAINEMENT DE BASE ET À SA FORMATION À CFSCE, IL EST MUTÉ EN JUIN 2005 AU QGET À VALCARTIER À LA TROUPE A POUR UN COURS SÉJOUR DE 10 MOIS. 4. EN AVRIL 2006, IL EST MUTÉ COMME GRL AU 430E ESCADRON TACTIQUE D’HÉLICOPTÈRES. DURANT SON SÉJOUR DE 5 ANS, IL A ÉTÉ DÉPLOYÉ EN AFGHANISTAN AVEC LA ROTO 6 DE SEPTEMBRE 2008 À AVRIL 2009 COMME OPÉRATEUR TACP AU QG FOK ET DE JUILLET 2010 À MAI 2011 COMME OPÉRATEUR EN DEVOIR DU BATAILLON D’HELICOPTÈRE ROTO 9. 5. À SON RETOUR D’AFGHANISTAN OÙ IL A ÉTÉ PROMU AU GRADE DE CPLC, IL EST MUTÉ DE NOUVEAU AU QGET EN JUIN 2011 COMME COMMANDANT DE DÉTACHEMENT HCLOS. 6. EN JUILLET 2012, IL EST MUTÉ À ST-JEAN SUR RICHELIEU AU SERVICE DES TRANSMISSIONS COMME SUPERVISEUR ADJOINT DU CSTI LÀ OÙ IL Y RESTERA JUSQU’À SA […]
1. ON 6 JULY 2018, AFTER 39 PLUS YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO CANADA, CWO FENTON WILL RETIRE FROM THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES (CAF), THE COMMUNICATIONS & ELECTRONICS BRANCH AND THE ROYAL CANADIAN CORPS OF SIGNALS. 2. CWO FENTON JOINED THE CAF IN OCT 1979. OFF THE STREETS OF OTTAWA HE BEGAN HIS JOURNEY, A WORD HE HAS BECOME QUITE FAMILIAR WITH IN HIS LAST ROLE AS THE ACISS SGT-MWO CAREER MANAGER. AFTER COMPLETING BASIC IN CORNWALLIS, DRIVER TRAINING IN BORDEN AND HIS QL3 IN KINGSTON HE COMPLETED 3 YEARS AT THE 1ST CANADIAN SIGNALS REGIMENT. IT WAS THE OFF TO 764 COMM SQN OTTAWA FOR 4 YEARS AND ANOTHER 3 YEARS WITH 450 TAC HELICOPTER SQUADRON WHERE HE HAS FOND MEMORIES WITH HIS EXPLOITS IN THE CHINOOK SQN. WITH A SHORT STINT IN 2 SIGS HE WENT ON TO COMPLETE 4 YEARS IN 2 RCHA AND RETURNED TO THE JOINT SIGNALS REGIMENT IN KINGSTON SERVING IN 3 & 4 SQN AND 1 YEAR IN 763 COMM REGT. IT WAS THEN BACK TO CFNOC IN OTTAWA FOR 4 YEARS AND A RETURN TO PETAWAWA 3 RCR AND ANOTHER YEAR IN 2 RCHA. UPON RECEIVING HIS MWO’S HE RETURNED […]
1. MASTER WARRANT OFFICER DARREL MACKENZIE WILL BE RETIRING FROM THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES ON 15 JUNE 2018 AFTER 28 PLUS YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE. 2. FROM VANCOVER, BC, D. MACKENZIE SIGNED ON THE DOTTED LINE HALLOWEEN DAY 1989 IN HOPES TO GET A LAST MINUTE MILITARY UNIFORM COSTUME. NEXT THING HE KNEW, HE WAS ON HIS WAY TO BEGIN BASIC TRAINING AT CANADIAN FORCES RECRUIT SCHOOL CORNWALLIS. AFTER TRADES TRAINING AT THE CANADIAN FORCES SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS (CFSCE), PTE MACKENZIE WAS POSTED TO CFB CHATHAM IN CHATHAM, NB, WHERE HE COMPLETED HIS ON-JOB TRAINING AND WAS PROMOTED TO CPL IN 1992. 3. IN 1994, CPL MACKENZIE EARNED HIMSELF THE HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER POSTING TO COLD LAKE, AB, AS AN AIRFIELD MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN AND ALSO MEET HIS SPOUSE AMBER. 4. IN JULY OF 2000, CPL MACKENZIE AND AMBER WERE SENT BACK EAST TO THE TROPICAL DESTINATION OF GANDER, NF. AFTER LESS THAN 2 YEARS AS A DESKTOP SERVICES TECH, MCPL MACKENZIE WAS THEN POSTED TO 12 WING SHEARWATER TO WORK IN THE FM RADIO WORLD. AT THIS POINT HIS CAREER ACCELERATED SOMEWHAT, LEADING TO A POSTING TO THE AEROSPACE AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING SUPPORT SQUADRON (ATESS) IN […]
1. MASTER WARRANT OFFICER D LANOUE WILL BE RETIRING FROM THE CAF ON 08 AUG 18 WITH 30 YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO CANADA, THE CAF, AND THE ROYAL CANADIAN CORPS OF SIGNALS. 2. MWO LANOUE ENROLLED IN ST-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU AS A RAD TECH ON 9 AUG 1988. UPON HIS COMPLETION OF TRAINING, HE BEGAN HIS CAREER AT 5 SVC BATTALION VALCARTIER. HE WAS SUBSEQUENTLY POSTED TO 1ST BATTALION ROYAL 22ND REGIMENT VALCARTIER, CANADIAN FORCES JOINT SIGNALS REGIMENT KINGSTON, 2ND CANADIAN DIVISION SUPPORT BASE VALCARTIER DET ST-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU, 2ND DIV MONTREAL, CHIEF OF THE ARMY STAFF OTTAWA, 2ND CANADIAN DIVISION SUPPORT GROUP SIGNAL SQUADRON MONTREAL, 2ND CANADIAN DIVISION HQ MONTREAL, CANADIAN FORCES JOINT SIGNAL REGIMENT KINGSTON, 77 LINE REGIMENT 1 LINE SQN KINGSTON. THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER HE HAS DEPLOYED TO CROATIA, HAITI, BOSNIA AND HERZGOVINA, DUBAI, AND AFGHANISTAN. AMONG HIS MANY TOURS, MWO LANOUE WAS ALSO PART OF A TWELVE MEMBER CANADIAN TEAM PARTICIPATING IN AFRICAN ENDEAVOUR HELD IN CAMEROON. AFRICAN ENDEAVOUR, A COMMUNICATIONS EXERCISE THAT FOCUSES ON INTEROPERABILTY AND INFO SHARING AMONG MORE THAN 30 AFRICAN PARTNERS AND REFLECTS DND, CAF ENGAGEMENT GOALS. HE ALSO DEPLOYED ON OPERATION ICE STORM IN MONTREAL. 3. MWO LANOUE WILL BE RETIRING TO […]
1. MAJOR MARK YOUNG WILL RETIRE FROM THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES AND THE COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS BRANCH ON 15 JULY 2018 AFTER 33 PLUS YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO CANADA. 2. MAJOR YOUNG JOINED THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES UNDER THE YOUTH TRAINING EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM (YTEP) IN 1983 IN OTTAWA. AFTER COMPLETION OF BASIC TRAINING IN CORNWALLIS NOVA SCOTIA HE COMPLETED HIS TEL OP (212) TRAINING AT THE CANADIAN FORCES SCHOOL OF COMMUNCATIONS AND ELECTRONICS AT KINGSTON, ONTARIO. 3. FOLLOWING HIS TRADE BASIC COURSE HE WAS POSTED TO NANAIMO BRITISH COLUMBIA FOR OJT UNDER THE YTEP PROGRAM. ON 29 OCTOBER 1984 HE TRANSFERRED TO THE REGULAR FORCE WHERE HE PROCEEDED TO 706 COMMUNICATIONS SQUADRON AT BORDEN ONTARIO WHERE HE WAS EMPLOYED IN THE ADDN NODE. DURING HIS POSTING HE COMPLETED A UN TOUR IN NICOSIA, CYPRUS. 4. FOLLOWING HIS TOUR TO CYPRUS, HE SAW POSTINGS TO 733 COMMUNICATIONS SQUADRON IN WINNIPEG, MANITOBA WHERE HE WAS PROMOTED TO CORPORAL AND UNLTIMATELY POSTED TO THE CANADIAN FORCES COMMUNICATIONS COMMAND (CFCC) INTEGRATED DATA NETWORK (IDN) WHERE HE WAS PROMOTED TO MASTER CORPORAL IN 1990. 5. HE REMAINED IN THE NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION UNTIL HIS POSTING TO SHAPE BELGIUM IN 2015. DURING HIS […]
1. AFTER 29 YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES, ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE, AND TO THE CANADIAN ARMY, SGT W.C.WHITEHEAD WILL RETIRE ON 12 JUNE 2018. 2. ON 21 JUNE 1989, BILL ENROLLED IN THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES PRIMARY RESERVE AS A RADIO TELETYPE OPERATOR AND QUICKLY RETRAINED AS A COMMUNICATIONS LINEMAN. IN 1997 BILL TRANSFERRED TO THE REGULAR FORCE WITH POSTINGS TO 76 COMM GP AND 1 LINE SQN AND, IN 2007 HE RE-MUSTERED TO THE AIRBORNE ELECTRONIC SENSOR OPERATOR (AES OP) TRADE. 3. IN 2003 BILL PARTICIPATED IN OP DANACA AS A LINEMAN IN THE GOLAN HEIGHTS WHERE HE RECEIVED THE CDN PEACEKEEPING AND THE UN DISENG OBS FORCE MEDALS. ADDITIONALLY, BILL RECEIVED THE GENERAL CAMPAIGN STAR IN 2006 AFTER HIS FIRST TOUR IN AFGHANISTAN. 4. AFTER RECEIVING HIS WINGS IN OCTOBER 2008 BILL WAS POSTED TO 423 SQUADRON AND COMPLETED HIS SEA KING COURSE IN OCTOBER 2009. VERY SHORTLY AFTER RECEIVING THIS QUALIFICATION IN JANUARY 2010, HE WAS SENT ON OP HESTIA TO HELP THE RELIEF EFFORT AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI ABOARD HMCS ATHABASKAN. HE RECEIVED THE OSM-HUMANITAS FOR HIS EFFORTS. 5. THE AFTERMATH OF HURRICANE IGOR LATE IN 2010 REQUIRED […]