Retirements
1. AFTER 10 YEARS OF DEDICATED AND LOYAL SERVICE, CAPT ANTHONY THOMPSON WILL BE RETIRING FROM THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES (CAF) ON 07 MAY 2018. 2. CAPT THOMPSON ENROLLED IN THE CAF AFTER GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL IN 2007 AS A COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING OFFICER (CELE (AIR)). AFTER COMPLETING BASIC TRAINING, CAPT THOMPSON ATTENDED THE ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA WHERE HE GRADUATED IN 2012 WITH A BACHELOR DEGREE IN COMPUTER SOFTWARE ENGINEERING. AFTER GRADUATION, HE WAS POSTED TO 17 WING WINNIPEG WTISS FOR OJT. DURING THIS TIME HE SPENT 10 WEEKS IN GAGETOWN FOR THE BASIC MILITARY OFFICER QUALIFICATION (BMOC). AFTER COMPLETING HIS CELE(AIR) TRAINING IN 2013 HE WAS PROMOTED TO LIEUTENANT AND POSTED TO OTTAWA WHERE HE WORKED AT SHARED SERVICES GROUP (SSG) PROVIDING 2ND LINE BLACKBERRY SUPPORT WHILE MIGRATING TO BES 5. IN 2014 HE ACCEPTED A POSITION AS THE DEPUTY PROJECT DIRECTOR FOR THE CANADIAN FORCES ELECTRONIC WARFARE SUPPORT SYSTEM (CFEWS) PROJECT AT CANADIAN FORCES INTELLIGENCE COMMAND (CFINTCOM). DURING FALL 2015, HE WAS GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY TO WORK AT THE CANADIAN FORCES NETWORK OPERATIONS CENTRE (CFNOC) AS A PLANS OFFICER FOR 6 MONTHS AND IN THE SUMMER OF 2016 HE WAS PROMOTED TO CAPTAIN AND OFFERED […]
1. IT IS WITH A PROFOUND SENSE OF GRATITUDE THAT PETTY OFFICER 1ST CLASS P BOECHLER ANNOUNCES HIS RETIREMENT FROM THE ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY AFTER 31 YEARS. RATHER THAN RAMBLE ON IN DETAIL ABOUT THE PLACES HE HAS VISITED, THE SHIPS, STATIONS AND BASES HE HAS BEEN POSTED TO, FOR HIM IT WAS ALWAYS ABOUT THE PEOPLE ALONG THE WAY. THE CAMARADERIE, THE FRIENDSHIPS FORGED IN THE PLETHORA OF SEA GOING EVOLUTIONS, TIMES CROSSING THE EQUATOR, SOUTHERN CROSSES VIEWED, FOREIGN PORT ANTICS AND COUNTLESS MILES TRAVELED. THESE ADVENTURES WITH FRIENDS WILL FOREVER MAKE UP A LARGE PART OF WHO HE WAS AS A QUOTE COCKY AND ARROGANT ORDINARY SEAMAN (EXERPT FROM HIS QL3 COURSE REPORT) UNQUOTE AND HAVE SHAPED HIM INTO THE PERSON HE HAS BECOME. HOWEVER, FOR THE CURIOUS, TO HIGHLIGHT PLACES WHERE THERE MAY BE MUGSHOTS OF PO1 BOECHLER, HE PROUDLY SERVED FOR 15 YEARS ON HMC SHIPS: YUKON, MACKENZIE, SASKATCHEWAN, REGINA, WINNIPEG AND PROTECTEUR. BASES AND STATIONS INCLUDE ESQUIMALT (FLEET SCHOOL) AND MFRC, NRS ALDERGROVE AND ESQUIMALT WHEN THE RADIO STATION MOVED OVER IN 2001, AND FINALLY THE CRYPTO SUPPORT SQUADRON IN OTTAWA. MEMORABLE OPERATIONS INCLUDE OP ENDURING FREEDOM, APOLLO AND OP FRICTION AND OTHER LENGTHY DEPLOYMENTS […]
1. AFTER ALMOST 35 YEARS OF DEDICATION AND COMMITMENT AS A PUBLIC SERVANT, MR. SJ WEST WILL BE RETIRING ON 17 APRIL 2018. 2. MR SJ WEST JOINED DND IN MARCH 1985, AFTER SOME SHORT EPISODES WORKING FOR THE GOVERNMENT AS A STUDENT STARTING IN 1976. MOST OF HIS TIME AT DND WAS SPENT ON THE CANADIAN PATROL FRIGATE PROJECT AND [OUTER] SPACE-RELATED PROJECTS. 3. FOR AN OPPORTUNITY TO BID MR. WEST FAREWELL, SHARE MEMORIES AND SOME LAUGHS, COME BY THE HEART AND CROWN IN THE BYWARD MARKET (67 CLARENCE STREET) ON FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2018, AT 1200HRS. AN RSVP IS NOT REQUIRED. IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO ATTEND AND WOULD LIKE TO SEND CONGRATULATORY WISHES, ANECDOTES OR STORIES, PLEASE CONTACT: (CONTACT REMOVED 2023 APR 20 BY ADMIN. SEND INQUIRIES HERE: https://cmcen-rcmce.ca/contact/). 4. IF YOU WISH TO CONTRIBUTE TO A FAREWELL GIFT, PLEASE SEND FUNDS TO THE SAME CONTACT.
1. AFTER 12 PLUS YEARS OF SERVICE MCPL GUNTER WILL BE RETIRING FROM THE CAF ON THE 6TH APRIL 2018. 2. MCPL GUNTER JOINED THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES ON THE 3 NOVEMBER 2005 AND COMPLETED BASIC TRAINING AT CFLRS IN SAINT-JEAN QC. AFTER COMPLETING HIS TRADES TRAINING AT CFSCE, HE WAS POSTED TO CFJSR AS A DETACHMENT SIGNALLER, WHERE HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE DART TEAM BEFORE TRANSITIONING TO GARRISON NETWORKS. WHILE A MEMBER OF NETWORKS SERVICES, HE ACTED AS THE LIAISON WITH THE DEPLOYED NETWORK SUPPORT CENTRE AND DEPLOYED TO TF SUDAN (OP SAFARI), TF EL GORAH (OP CALUMET), AND DOMESTIC SUPPORT TO THE G8/G20 SUMMIT (OP CADENCE). HE SERVED ON OPERATIONS WITH JTF AFGHANISTAN REGIONAL COMMAND SOUTH HQ FROM OCTOBER 2008 UNTIL AUGUST 2009 AND SPANGDAHLEM, GERMANY (OP AGILE) FROM NOVEMBER 2010 UNTIL JUNE 2011. MCPL GUNTER WAS PROMOTED TO HIS CURRENT RANK ON 13 JUNE 2014 BEFORE BEING POSTED ON 28 JUL 2014 TO 765 COMMUNICATION SQUADRON WHERE HE BECAME A SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR IN DEPLOYED OPS. THERE HE SERVED ON TAVS TO TF EL GORAH (OP CALUMET), TF JERUSALEM (OP PROTEUS) AND HAS BEEN A CHAMPION OF EFFECTIVE NETWORKING OVER THE DEPLOYED OPS NETWORK PROVIDING DIRECT […]
1. MWO M. LARRIVEE WILL RETIRE FROM THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES ON 03 APRIL 2018, AFTER 30 PLUS YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO CANADA, THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES, THE COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS BRANCH, AND MOST RECENTLY THE ROYAL CANADIAN CORPS OF SIGNALS. 2. MWO M. LARRIVEE ENROLLED IN THE CAF ON 25 JUNE 1987 AT SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC AS A RADIO TECHNICIAN (221). TWO WEEKS LATER HE HEADED TO CFRC CFB ST-JEAN FOR RECRUIT TRAINING AND SECOND LANGUAGE TRAINING. FROM THERE IT WAS OFF TO KINGSTON ONTARIO FOR TRADE QUALIFICATION. HIS FIRST POSTING WAS TO 770 COMMS REASERCH SQUADRON GANDER NFLD, FROM THERE HE WENT TO 2EW SQUADRON KINGSTON FOR 9 YEARS. AND THANKED HIS LUCKY STARS, HE WAS POSTED TO SHAPE BELGIUM FOR 4 YEARS. MWO M. LARRIVEE THEN WAS MOVED TO CFB PETAWAWA, FIRST TO 2 RCHA FOLLOWED BY 2 SERVICE BATTALION. HIS LAST MOVE SAW HIM GOING TO OTTAWA WERE HE HAD TWO POSTINGS THERE AS WELL, FIRST CFIOG HQ AS AN LCMM AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST AT 7 COMM GP HQ IN THE NATIONAL TCI SECTION. 3. MWO M. LARRIVEE HAS ACCEPTED A CIVIL SERVANT POSITION WITH ADM (IM), HE AND HIS WIFE AND […]
1. MCPL M. MYLES WILL RETIRE ON 26 MAR 2018 AFTER SERVING OVER 35 YEARS OF LOYAL AND DISTINGUISHED SERVICE TO QUEEN AND COUNTRY. 2. MCPL M. MYLES JOINED THE ROYAL CANADIAN HUSSARS IN FEB 83 AS AN ARMOURED CREWMAN. HE TRANSFERRED TO THE AIR RES IN APR 86 AS AN ADMIN CLK, AND WAS EMPLOYED WITH THE AIR RES AT FMC HQ. HE COMPLETED ONE TOUR WITH THE MULTINATIONAL FORCE AND OBSERVER SINAI IN EGYPT IN 1989. HE WAS ON CLASS B WITH HQ 10 TACTICAL AIR GROUP FROM NOV 87 UNTIL MAR 88, AND THEN AGAIN FROM OCT 90 TO MAY 97. HE WAS PROMOTED TO SGT IN JUN 97 AND MOVED TO KINGSTON TO 1 WING HQ. HE THEN TRANSFERRED TO THE REG F IN NOV 2001 AND WAS POSTED TO CF JOINT HQ KINGSTON, CFB KINGSTON HQ, CFSCE AND 2 EW SQN. HE SERVED ON MANY POSTINGS INCLUDING 5 SVC BN VALCARTIER, NDHQ OTTAWA DG FIN OPS, DG COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS, AND DGEAS, WITH HIS FINAL POSTING WITH DIRECTOR KNOWLEDGE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT 3-4 AS THE QUALITY ASSURANCE ANALYST. HE HAS BEEN AWARDED WITH THE FOLLOWING HONOURS AND AWARDS: THE MULTINATIONAL FORCE AND OBSERVERS MEDAL, THE CPSM […]