Retirements
1. AFTER 20 WILDLY SUCCESSFUL YET SOMEWHAT UNEVENTFUL YEARS IN THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES, CAPT TIMOTHY CARY WILL RETIRE ON 15 OCTOBER 2022. 2. CAPTAIN CARY JOINED THE CAF IN 2002 AS A LAND COMMUNICATIONS & INFORMATION SYSTEMS TECHNICIAN. AFTER COMPLETING OCCUPATIONAL TRAINING IN 2004 AT CFSCE, TIM WAS POSTED TO BASE INFORMATION SERVICES AT CFB ESQUIMALT. IN 2007, HE WAS ACCEPTED INTO THE UTPNCM PROGRAM AS A CELE OFFICER AND WAS SUBSEQUENTLY POSTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA. UPON COMPLETION OF OCCUPATIONAL TRAINING IN 2012 HE WAS POSTED TO WTIS AT 14 WING GREENWOOD. AFTER FOUR YEARS IN GREENWOOD, TIM JOINED ATESS AT 8 WING TRENTON IN 2016 SUPPORTING AIRFIELD COMMUNICATIONS ACROSS CANADA. FOLLOWING TWO YEARS AT ATESS HE LEFT FOR JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON (JBER) IN ANCHORAGE, ALASKA TO SUPPORT THE NORAD MISSION WHILE EMPLOYED WITHIN THE USAF 611 AIR COMMUNICATIONS SQUADRON. TIM SPENT A FINAL YEAR CLOSER TO HOME AT CFB BORDEN WITHIN TECHNICAL SERVICES. 3. TIM AND HIS FAMILY HAVE DECIDED TO SETTLE DOWN IN NOVA SCOTIA’S SOUTH SHORE WHERE HE WILL SPEND HIS SUMMERS WRESTLING GREAT WHITE SHARKS AND WINTERS COMPETING IN AN UNDERGROUND CAGE-FIGHTING CIRCUIT. SHOULD NEITHER OF THOSE VENTURES PROVE LUCRATIVE, TIM WILL […]
1. AFTER MORE THAN 30 YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO CANADA, MASTER WARRANT OFFICER PASCAL DEBLOIS WILL RETIRE FROM THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES ON 6 NOVEMBER 2022. 2. MWO DEBLOIS ENROLLED IN THE RESERVE AS A COOK, ON 10 JANUARY 1992, WITH 51ST SERVICE BATTALION. DURING THAT TIME, HE WORKED AT CFB ST-HUBERT, CFB VALCARTIER, AND DEPLOYED TO CFS ALERT FROM NOVEMBER 1996 – MAY 1997. HE THEN RE-MUSTERED AS A SIGINT SPECIALIST IN MARCH 1999. SINCE THEN, HE WAS POSTED TO CFS LEITRIM FROM APRIL 2000 – JULY 2008, AT CFIOG HQ OUTCAN DETACHMENT MARYLAND FROM JULY 2008 – JULY 2011, THEN RETURNED TO CFS LEITRIM FROM JULY 2011 – JULY 2017, DID ANOTHER OUTCAN POSTING AT CFIOG HQ OUTCAN DETACHMENT GEORGIA, AND FINALLY RETURNED TO CFS LEITRIM ON JULY 2021 IN HIS CURRENT POSITION AS 5 SQUADRON SERGEANT MAJOR. HE COMPLETED OVERSEAS TOUR OF DUTIES ABOARD HMCS WINNIPEG; KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN, AND NAPLES, ITALY. MWO DEBLOIS WOULD LIKE TO THANK EVERYONE WITH WHOM HE HAD THE HONOR TO SERVE WITH, AND WHO HAS SUPPORTED AND MENTORED HIM THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER. HE WOULD ESPECIALLY LIKE TO THANK HIS WIFE, CHANTAL ROBITAILLE, WHO HAS PROVIDED MUCH NEEDED SUPPORT […]
1. ON 31 OCT 22, MCPL DYLAN ELLIOTT WILL SHUTDOWN AND ZEROIZE ALL EQUIPMENT IN RETIREMENT WITH 13 YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES (CAF). 2. DYLAN ENROLLED WITH THE CAF ON 28 OCT 09 AT CFRC HAMILTON AS AN ARMY SIGNAL OPERATOR (SIGOP). ON COMPLETION OF BMQ IN MAR 2010, HE WOULD SUBSEQUENTLY BE POSTED TO THE CANADIAN FORCES SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS (CFSCE) IN KINGSTON WHERE HE WOULD COMPLETE LSVW AND SIGOP QL3 TRAINING. DYLAN HELD POSITIONS AT CFSCE, CANADIAN FORCES JOINT SIGNALS REGIMENT (CFJSR), AND FINALLY THE 4TH CANADIAN DIVISION AND JOINT TASK FORCE CENTRAL HQ AS THE RJOC SIG SUPERVISOR. IN 2014 DYLAN WAS DEPLOYED AS THE COMMANDER’S SIGNALLER ON OPERATION HAMLET / BRABAT BEING THE CANADIAN FORCES PARTICIPATION TO THE UNITED NATIONS STABILIZATION MISSION IN HAITI WITH THE BRAZILIAN BATTALION (BRABAT) IN SUPPORT OF THE MINUSTAH MANDATE. IN OCTOBER 2014, HE DEPLOYED AS PART OF THE OPERATION IMPACT CANADA S COMMITMENT TO ACHIEVING STABILITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST AS A MEMBER OF THE ACTIVATION TEAM IN KUWAIT AS PART OF THE OPERATIONAL RECCE LIAISON DETACHMENT. HE SUPPORTED NAVAL OPERATIONS WITH THE INTERNATIONAL MARITIME EXERCISE RIMPAC IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN […]
1. MCPL SANTOS RETIRED ON 30 JANUARY 2021 AFTER 20 YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES. 2. MCPL SANTOS JOINED THE CF ON 09 APR 2002. AFTER COMPLETION OF QL3 ATIS COURSE, HE WAS POSTED TO 16 WING HQ AND WORKED WITH WTIS UNTIL JUL 2008. FROM JULY 2008 TO OCT 2013, HE WAS A CREW TECHNICIAN SUPPORTING CADS AND NORAD. HE RELEASED OCT 2013 AND BEGAN EMPLOYMENT AS A RESERVIST SUPPORTING 400THS. HE PROVIDED TECH SUPPORT TO 400THS UNTIL JAN 2015. AT THE END OF JAN 2015 HE BECAME A REG FORCE MEMBER AND WAS POSTED TO CFB TRENTON MACS SITE BUT DUE TO PROMOTION TO MCPL WAS POSTED OUT TO CFB NORTH BAY JUL 2016. FROM JUL 2016 TO MARCH 2018 HE WAS AGAIN SUPPORTING NORAD AS A 2 I/C CREW CHIEF. AT THE END OF MARCH 2018 HE WAS POSTED TO RCAF ACADEMY AND INSTRUCTED 2 SERIALS. UPON COMPLETION OF INSTRUCTION HE WAS POSTED TO CFB BORDEN TECH SVCS CISS AND WAS THE 2 I/C FOR VARIOUS SUPPORT TEAMS UNTIL MARCH 2021. FROM APRIL 2021 UNTIL JAN 2022 HE WAS THE TRAINING COORDINATOR FOR TECH SERVICES OPS. 3. RICO AND HIS […]
1. AFTER 30 YEARS OF LOYAL RESERVE FORCE SERVICE TO CANADA SGT LARRY WILSON WILL BE RETIRING FROM THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES ON 31 OCTOBER 2022. 2. SGT WILSON WAS BORN IN CALGARY, AB, AND JOINED THE CAF AT THE AGE OF 17 IN MAY OF 1992 AS A RIFLEMEN WITH THE PRINCESS OF WALES OWN REGIMENT HERE IN KINGSTON. EARLY 1995 SGT WILSON TRANSFERRED TO THE SIGNALS BRANCH INTO THEIR NEWEST TRADE, LAND COMMUNICATION INFORMATIONS SYSTEMS TECHNICIAN (LCIS) WITH RESERVE ELECTRONIC WARFARE SQUADRON, KINGSTON. AT THE ONSET OF Y2K, SGT WILSON WAS “RECRUITED” IN 1998 BY THE AIRFORCE AND TRANSFERRED TO 1 WING HQ IN KINGSTON TO ASSIST THEM WITH THIS ISSUE. ONE YEAR LATER, VOLUNTEERED TO THEN TRANSFER TO 400 TACTICAL HELICOPTER SQUADRON IN BORDEN TO MANAGE THEIR HELPDESK, FOR WHICH SGT WILSON SETTLED DOWN FOR 12 YEARS. DURING THAT TIME, SGT WILSON DEPLOYED THREE TIMES INTERNATIONALLY (TWICE TO BOSNIA AND ONCE TO AGHGANISTAN) AND SUPPORT SEVERAL DOMESTIC OPERATIONS (OP PODUIM AND OP CADANCE). SGT WILSON THEN RETURNED TO KINGSTON IN 2010, BACK TO 1 WING HQ. IN 2013 SGT WILSON WOULD THEN TRANSFER INTO WHAT WOULD BE HIS LAST POSITION WHICH WAS AT THE CANADIAN ARMY […]
1. Colonel Robyn Hulan, OMM, CD will retire from the Canadian Armed Forces after 30 plus years of loyal and dedicated service to Canada on 31 October 2022. 2. Colonel Hulan’s career has spanned signals intelligence, electronic warfare and information technology operations to include multiple deployments and two postings to the United States where her most recent assignment to North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), saw her leading NORAD’s digital transformation and innovation initiative – Pathfinder. In that time, she is forever grateful for the incredible teams with whom she has worked, and the everlasting friendships made. 3. With her husband Colonel Corey Crosby and son Brody’s unwavering love and support, Colonel Hulan is ready for the next chapter of her life – a narrative yet to be written. 4. To truly end where it all began, an informal retirement function will take place on Wednesday 16 November 2022 at the CFS Leitrim All Ranks Mess at 1400 hrs. If you wish to attend or send well wishes, please contact Major Alex Sheasby at [email protected].