Retirements
1. AFTER APPROXIMATELY 5 AND A HALF YEARS OF LOYAL SERVICE TO THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES, CPL CARDOZO WILL DEPART WITH DIGNITY ON 17 FEB 2023 AND WILL BE JOINING THE YORK REGIONAL POLICE AS A COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS SPECIALIST. 2. CPL CARDOZO JOINED THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES ON AUGUST 27, 2017. AFTER COMPLETING BASIC TRAINING AT CFLRS THEY WERE POSTED TO THE INFANTRY SCHOOL AT CFB GAGETOWN. DURING THIS FIRST POST HE CONDUCTED OJT IN THE INFANTRY SCHOOLS IT STORES AND ALSO SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED THE SOLDIERS QUALIFICATION COURSE. AFTER SQ, CPL CARDOZO WAS SENT TO CFB KINGSTON TO CONDUCT THEIR TRADES TRAINING. AFTER GRADUATING FROM CFSCE THEY WERE POSTED TO CFJSR 1 SQN B TP. DURING HIS STINT IN BRAVO TROOP HE WORKED IN B TP STORES, ASSISTED IN VARIOUS EXERCISES AND EAGERLY COMPLETED ALL TASKS ASSIGNED TO HIM. DURING COVID HE TOOK PART IN OP GLOBE IN CORNWALL AT THE NAV CENTRE ASSISTING IN PROCESSING PEOPLE INFECTED WITH THE COVID 19 VIRUS FROM A CRUISE SHIP INTO ISOLATION. CPL CARDOZO WAS ALSO INVOLVED IN OP LASER WHERE THEY ASSISTED PACKING AND DEPLOYING THE CAMP INFRASTRUCTURE AS WELL AS RECONSTITUTING POST OPERATION. DURING THEIR TIME AT CFJSR CPL CARDOZO […]
MASTER WARRANT OFFICER KEVIN HILLS WILL RETIRE FROM THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES (CAF) ON 26 MARCH 2023 AFTER 40 YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE TO CANADA. KEVIN ENROLLED WITH THE CAF IN JUNE OF 1982. AFTER COMPLETION OF BASIC TRAINING IN CORNWALLIS NS. HE WAS SENT TO THE CANADIAN FORCES SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION AND ELECTRONICS (CFSCE) IN KINGSTON ON. AFTER THE COMPLETION OF HIS ELECTRONICS TRAINING AND RADIO TECHNICIAN TRAINING HE WAS POSTED TO C.F.S. FALCONBRIDGE WHERE HE WAS EMPLOYED AS A MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN AT THE (GATR) GROUND AIR TRANSMIT RECEIVE SITE IN SUPPORT OF NORAD AND THE PINE TREE RADAR LINE. AFTER THE STATION CLOSURE IN THE SPRING OF 1986 HE WAS POSTED TO C.F.S. GOOSEBAY WHERE HE WAS AGAIN EMPLOYED AS A MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN AT THE GATR SITE. AFTER THE CLOSURE OF THE GOOSEBAY PINETREE SITE IN 1988 HE WAS POSTED TO THE GOOSE AIR BASE WHERE HE WAS EMPLOYED AS AN FM/AUD/VIS TECHNICIAN. IN 1991 HE WAS POSTED TO C.F.S. HOLBERG WHERE HE WAS ONCE AGAIN EMPLOYED AS A RADIO MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN IN SUPPORT OF NORAD AND THE PINETREE RADAR LINE. IN 1992 HE WAS POSTED BACK TO 5 WING GOOSEBAY WHERE HE WAS EMPLOYED AS AN […]
1. AFTER 27 + YEARS OF COMBINED LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE, MASTER WARRANT OFFICER WILLIAM (BILL) RIDING WILL RETIRE FROM THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES ON 20 MARCH 2023. 2. BILL EMBARKED ON HIS MILITARY CAREER IN 1988 WHEN, WHILE ATTENDING HIGH SCHOOL/COLLEGE, HE ENROLLED IN THE PRINCESS OF WALES OWN REGIMENT (PWOR) AS AN INFANTRYMAN WHERE HE SERVED UNTIL 1991. IN 1999 HE REENROLLED IN THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES AS A COMMUNICATOR RESEARCH OPERATOR (COMM RSCH). HE COMPLETED BASIC TRAINING AT CANADIAN FORCES LEADERSHIP AND RECRUIT SCHOOL (CFLRS) SAINT JEAN IN APRIL 1999. IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING BASIC TRAINING, WHILE AWAITING THE START OF THEIR COMMS RSCH QL3 COURSE, HE AND OTHER COMM RSCH STUDENTS WERE ATTACHED POSTED TO CFB HALIFAX WHERE THEY SPENT THREE MONTHS PREPARING THE NAVAL GUN RUN KIT AND PARTICIPATING IN THE NAVAL GUN RUN. IN JULY 1999 HE FINALLY COMMENCED HIS COMM RSCH QL3 TRAINING AT THE CANADIAN FORCES SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS (CFSCE) AT CFB KINGSTON. FOLLOWING HIS TRADES TRAINING, HE WAS POSTED TO CANADIAN FORCES STATION LEITRIM (CFS LEITRIM) FROM APRIL 2000-2004. FROM THERE HE ENJOYED POSTINGS TO CFS LEITRIM/DET CSE FROM 2004-2007, CFSCE FROM 2007-2010, 21 ELECTRONIC WARFARE REGIMENT (21 EW […]
1. AFTER 20 YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO CANADA AND THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES, WO TRAINOR WILL BE RETIRING ON 31 MARCH 2023. 2. WO TRAINOR JOINED THE CAF ON 2 OCTOBER 2002 AND PROCEEDED TO BASIC TRAINING IN SAINT-JEAN, QC. AFTER BASIC TRAINING HE WAS SENT TO CFSCE TO COMPLETE SIG OP QL3 TRADES TRAINING. UPON COMPLETION OF HIS TRADES TRAINING AT CFSCE, HE WAS POSTED TO 4ESR IN BASE GAGETOWN N.B. AND SERVED TWO TOURS OF DUTY IN AFGHANISTAN: IN 2005 AND 2007. WO TRAINOR WAS THEN PROMOTED TO MCPL AND POSTED TO THE SIG SQN AT BASE GAGETOWN AS HEAD OF THE CLASSIFIED DOMAIN SECTION FOR LFAA. WO TRAINOR WAS PROMOTED TO SGT IN 2012 AND POSTED TO WHAT WAS THEN CALLED SHARE SERVICES UNIT ATLANTIC (SSU(A)) IN HALIFAX N.S. UNTIL 2016. DURING THIS TIME WO TRAINOR MADE THE TRADE CHANGE TO IT TECHNICIAN. SUMMER OF 2016 LED HIM TO DIM SECUR AT TUNNEY’S PASTURE IN OTTAWA FOR HIS NEXT POSTING WHERE HE WORKED AS A SECURITY ANALYST. HIS SHORT TWO YEARS STAY WERE MEMORABLE AND ENABLED HIM TO MAKE SOME LIFELONG FRIENDS AND COMRADES. WO TRAINOR WAS THEN PROMOTED TO HIS CURRENT RANK IN […]
1. AFTER 36 PLUS YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES (CAF) WO CARL KEEPING (WOODY) WILL BE RETIRING ON THE 13TH OF MARCH 23. WOULD ALSO LIKE TO THANK ALL OF THE AMAZING PEOPLE HE HAS HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET DURING HIS TIME IN GREENS. 2. WOODY FIRST ENROLLED WITH THE CAF ON 5 MARCH 1987 REGULAR FORCES AS A SIGNAL OPERATOR. AFTER COMPLETING TRADE TRAINING IN KINGSTON, HE COMPLETED POSTINGS TO 1 CANADIAN AND SIGNALS REGIMENT (TWICE FOR 14 YEARS TOTAL), 727 COM SQN ST JHONS, 2 PPCLI SHILO, 725 COMM SQNCAPE BRITON. HE HAS ALSO COMPLETED TWO TOURS IN QUNAYTIRAH SYRIA 1995 AND 1998 AND TF EA NCE ASMARA ERITREA 2000 . WOODY TRANSFERRED TO THE PRES IN JUN 2008 WHERE HE SERVED WITH 5 CRPG GANDER AND CURRENTLY WITH 1 CRPG YELLOWKNIFE. 3. HE AND HIS WIFE EVELYN WILL REMAIN IN THE YELLOWKNIFE REGION. HE WOULD LIKE TO ESPECIALLY RECOGNIZE HIS FAMILY FOR THEIR SUPPORT DURING HIS CAREER. EVELYN AND WOODY HAVE 4 BOYS AND 5 GRANDKIDS WITH ANOTHER ONE ON THE WAY. WOODY IS LOOKING FORWARD TO HAVING MORE FREE TIME TO SPEND AT HIS CABIN AND TELLING STORIES, […]
1. AFTER 20+ YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO CANADA, SERGEANT DONALD BECKER WILL RETIRE ON 15 FEBRUARY 2023. 2. SGT BECKER ENROLLED IN THE CAF IN FEBRUARY OF 2002, COMPLETING BASIC TRAINING IN SAINT-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU, FOLLOWED BY POET AND ATIS QL3 TECHNICIAN TRAINING AT CFSCE KINGSTON. UPON GRADUATION IN APRIL OF 2004, PTE BECKER WAS POSTED TO 4 WING COLD LAKE WHERE HE WAS EMPLOYED IN VARIOUS SECTIONS UNTIL BEING PLACED IN THE AIRFIELD SECTION. HE WAS PROMOTED TO CPL IN MARCH OF 2006. IN JULY OF 2008 CPL BECKER WAS POSTED TO 19 WING COMOX WHERE HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE CANADIAN COASTAL RADAR MAINTENANCE TEAM. CPL BECKER WENT TO CFS ALERT FOR TWO TOURS IN 2012 AND 2015. CPL BECKER WAS APPOINTED TO MCPL IN JULY OF 2013. IN JULY OF 2016 MCPL BECKER WAS POSTED BACK TO 4 WING COLD LAKE WHERE HE SPENT TIME IN THE COMSEC AND AIRFIELD SECTIONS. IN SUMMER OF 2020 MCPL BECKER WAS PROMOTED TO SGT AND POSTED TO 17 WING WINNIPEG WHERE HE LEARNED NEW SKILLS AS THE C4 SYSTEMS SUPERVISOR AND ACTING C4 SYSTEMS WO. HIS STAY IN WINNIPEG WAS SHORT LIVED, AS HE WAS POSTED TO HIS […]