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RETIREMENT – LIEUTENANT COLONEL ANIL SHEEHAN, CD, 00340 – CELE
1. LCOL ANIL SHEEHAN WILL RETIRE FROM THE CAF ON 16 DECEMBER 2022 AFTER 26 YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO CANADA, THE CAF AND THE COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS BRANCH. 2. ORIGINALLY FROM STEPHENVILLE, NL, LCOL SHEEHAN ENROLLED IN 1991 AS A SIGNALS...
RETIREMENT – LIEUTENANT COLONEL CHAD JOHANNES, CD, 00341 – SIGS
1. AFTER MORE THAN 25 YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO CANADA, LIEUTENANT COLONEL CHAD JOHANNES WILL RETIRE FROM THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES ON 19 DECEMBER 2022. 2. LCOL JOHANNES CAREER HAS SEEN HIM SERVE IN A NUMBER OF COMMAND AND STAFF POSITIONS...
RETIREMENT – BRIGADIER-GENERAL DAVID AWALT, CD, 00172 – GOL
1. AFTER 31 YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE BRIGADIER-GENERAL DAVID AWALT RETIRED FROM THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES ON 30 SEPTEMBER 2022. 2. BGEN DAVID AWALT ENROLLED IN THE REGULAR FORCE IN 1991 IN THE REGULAR OFFICER TRAINING PROGRAM GRADUATING FROM ROYAL...
100th Birthday! We need your enthusiasm for Canadian Signalman Stanley W. Dovauo, originally of Vernon, BC.
Signalman Stanley Dovauo will be celebrating his 100th Birthday, come 19 Nov 2022!Having enlisted in Aug of ‘41, Sig Dovauo was deployed to England in preparations for operations in continental Europe. He met his sweetheart Laura Priddle of Sussex and married...
RETIREMENT – PETTY OFFICER 2ND CLASS SCOTT BROOKES, CD, NAV COMM – 00299
1. PO2 SCOTT BROOKES WILL SWALLOW THE ANCHOR AND PROCEED ASHORE FOR THE FINAL TIME ON 24 NOV 2022 AFTER MORE THAN 23 YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO THE CAF AND THE RCN. 2.PO2 BROOKES ENROLLED IN THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES 18 JAN 1999 IN TORONTO, ON....
RETIREMENT – CAPTAIN JAMES A. TRASK, CD, SIGS – 00341
1. ON 10 JANUARY 2023, CAPTAIN AL TRASK, CD, WILL RETIRE FROM THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES (CAF) AFTER 40+ YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO THE ROYAL CANADIAN CORPS OF SIGNALS, THE COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS BRANCH, AND CANADA. 2. CAPT TRASK’S JOURNEY...
RETIREMENT – CORPORAL WARREN E. HAMELIN, 00109 – ATIS TECH
1. CPL WARREN HAMELIN WILL RETIRE FROM THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES ON 15 NOVEMBER 2022 AFTER MORE THAN 6 YEARS OF DISTINGUISHED, DEDICATED AND LOYAL SERVICE TO THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES (CAF). 2. WARREN JOINED THE CAF ON 24 MAY 2016 AS AN ATIS TECH. AFTER...
RETIREMENT – CAPTAIN GREGORY RITONJA, 00341 – SIGS
1. CAPTAIN GREGORY RITONJA IS RETIRING ON 23 NOVEMBER 2022, AFTER 12 YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO THE CAF, C&E BRANCH, THE SIGNALS TRADE, AND CANSOFCOM. 2. HE ENROLLED IN THE CAF AS A SIGNALS OFFICER IN JULY 2010. AFTER 4 YEARS AT RMC, IN THE...
RETIREMENT – CAPTAIN RALPH T. MACDONALD, CD, SIGS – 00341
1. CAPTAIN RALPH T. MACDONALD WILL RETIRE ON 13 JANUARY 2023, AFTER 34 YEARS OF DEDICATED, ALBEIT BROKEN, SERVICE TO CANADA, ITS ARMED FORCES, AND THE ROYAL CANADIAN CORPS OF SIGNALS. 2. RALPH WALKED THROUGH THE FRONT GATES OF CFRLS CORNWALLIS ON 8 NOVEMBER...
RETIREMENT – MASTER CORPORAL ANDREW LAAGLAND WINDER, 00384 – LINE TECH
1. MASTER CORPORAL ANDREW LAAGLAND WINDER WILL BE RETIRING FROM THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES ON 14 OCT 2022 WITH 13 YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE ROYAL CANADIAN CORP OF SIGNALS AS A LINE TECHNICIAN. 2. MCPL LAAGLAND WINDER ENROLLED IN THE CAF AS A LINEMAN ON 30 JUL 2009...
RETIREMENT – CORPORAL DERRICK CROWDER, 00340 – CELE
1. AFTER 10 YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO THE ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE, CPL DERRICK CROWDER WILL RETIRE ON 15 NOVEMBER 2022. 2. BORN IN WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CPL DERRICK CROWDER BEGAN LIFE IN THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES IN NOVEMBER 2012 AS AN ATIS TECH....
RETIREMENT – SERGEANT ZAW AUNG, CD, 00340 – CELE
AFTER 20 YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO CANADA, SGT ZAW AUNG WILL RETIRE FROM THE CAF ON 15 DECEMBER 2022.
RETIREMENT – WARRANT OFFICER JAKE OUELLET, CD, 00383 – SIG OP
AFTER 23 YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES (CAF) WO JAKE OUELLET WILL BE RETIRING ON THE 9TH NOV 22.
RETIREMENT – MASTER WARRANT OFFICER MICHAEL TAYLOR, CD, 00384 – LINE TECH
MASTER WARRANT OFFICER MICHAEL TAYLOR, CD, WILL RETIRE FROM THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES (CAF) ON 23 NOVEMBER 2022 AFTER 31 + YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO CANADA, THE ROYAL CANADIAN CORPS OF SIGNALS AND THE LINE TECHNICIAN TRADE.
Congratulations to Captain Russell Storring!
Captain Russell Storring, awarded the Military Personnel Generation Group Commanders Commendation for his work in Decentralized Recruit Training. Citation: Captain Storring was a success enabler in the establishment of the Canadian Forces Leadership and Recruit School...
Congratulations to Major Jennifer Arsenault!
Major Jennifer Arsenault, awarded the SSM with Expedition bar, for her work on Op PRESENCE TF-Training Support to Peacekeeping Operations (TF-TSPO), which saw the TF deploy to Rwanda and Uganda in the fall of 2021 and spring of 2022. TF-TSPO was tasked to develop and...
RETIREMENT – WARRANT OFFICER STEVE WINDSOR, CD, 00109 – ATIS TECH
1. AFTER MORE AND 33 YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE, WARRANT OFFICER STEVE WINDSOR’S LAST DAY OF WORK WITH THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES WILL BE 9 JAN 2023. 2. WO WINDSOR ENROLLED IN THE CAF IN JUN 1986 UNDER THE ROTP PROGRAM AS A MARINE ENGINEERING OFFICER...
C&E Week 2022 has begun!
C&E week has kicked off with raising of our Branch flag and a brief of our strong history of RCCS and the North. Blueberry cupcakes with grey coloured icing to enjoy. Our Sr Sig Offr (CELE) is our JTFN Comd, BGen Godbout. [gallery type="rectangular"...
FLASH SAVE The Netherlands 2023 Battlefield Tour (28 Apr – 7 May 23)
The Netherlands 2023 Battlefield Tour (28 Apr - 7 May 23) FLASH SAVE $1162pp on Tour, first-come-first-served More information click here: Netherlands 2023/Itinerary Netherlands 2023 the “75th+3 Anniversary of Liberation” Victory Tour 28 April – 7 May, 2023...
RETIREMENT – CAPTAIN TIMOTHY R. CARY, CD – 00340 CELE OFFICER
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...
RETIREMENT – MASTER WARRANT OFFICER PASCAL DEBLOIS, CD – 00120 SIGINT SPEC
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...
RETIREMENT – MASTER CORPORAL DYLAN J. ELLIOTT CD, 00383-01, SIGOP
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)....
RETIREMENT – MASTER CORPORAL RIGOBERTO F. SANTOS
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...
RETIREMENT – SERGEANT LARRY WILSON, SIG TECH 00385-01
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...
RETIREMENT – COLONEL ROBYN Y. HULAN, OMM, CD, 00341 – SIGS
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...
RETIREMENT – MASTER CORPORAL NATALIE MURRAY, CD, 00109 – ATIS TECH
1. MASTER CORPORAL MURRAY IS RETIRING AFTER 35 YEARS OF SERVICE IN THE CAF. 2. AFTER SEVERAL YEARS AS A CANADIAN FORCES RESERVIST, MCPL NATALIE MURRAY JOINED THE REGULAR FORCE IN JUNE 1987, ENROLLING AS A POET. GRADUATING FROM CFSCE KINGSTON AS A 231 RADAR TECHNICIAN,...
RETIREMENT – MASTER CORPORAL ANTHONY G. M. BROWN, CD, 00109 – ATIS TECH
1. AFTER 15+ YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE TO CANADA, MCPL ANTHONY BROWN RETIRED ON 11 AUG 2022 FROM THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES. 2. SINCE JOINING THE CAF ON 25 JAN 2007, MCPL BROWN HAS HAD A DISTINGUISHED CAREER SERVING IN CANADA AND ABROAD. MCPL BROWN DEPLOYED TO...
RETIREMENT – SERGEANT RYAN HEFFERNAN, CD, 00109 – ATIS TECH
1. SERGEANT RYAN HEFFERNAN WILL BE RETIRING AFTER 23 YEARS OF SERVICE. 2. SGT RYAN HEFFERNAN OR AS MOST KNOW HIM “HEFF” JOINED THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES IN 1999 AS RESERVE INFANTEER WITH THE HASTINGS AND PRINCE EDWARD REGIMENT. IN 2001 WHILE A MEMBER OF THE...
RETIREMENT – MASTER CORPORAL BILL WESTBROOK, 00120 – SIGINT SPEC
1. AFTER 15+ YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE TO CANADA, MCPL BILL WESTBROOK WILL RETIRE ON 25 SEPT 2022 FROM THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES. SINCE JOINING THE CAF ON 19 DEC 2006 MCPL WESTBROOK IS EXTREMELY GRATEFUL FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF SERVING THROUGHOUT CANADA AND ABROAD IN...
C&E Branch Members participate in IRON WARRIOR 2022
The annual IRON WARRIOR event, hosted by CFB Petawawa, took place on 27 and 28 Aug 2022. This gruelling event, which involves a ruck march, a canoe portage and then paddling said canoe down the Ottawa River, is a mental and physical challenge for all...
RETIREMENT – CAPTAIN MICHAEL GUERAULT, CD – 00340-01 CELE (AIR)
1. AFTER 13 YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES (CAF) CAPTAIN MICHAEL GUERAULT WILL BE RETIRING ON 01 FEBRUARY 2023. 2. MICHAEL FIRST ENROLLED WITH THE CAF ON 08 JANUARY 2010 AS A COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING (CELE) OFFICER....
BURIAL CEREMONY – MASTER CORPORAL CLIFFORD DENNISON, CD
MCPL CLIFFORD DENNISON CD, WHO PASSED AWAY IN 2021, WAS LAID TO REST AT THE CATARAQUI CEMETERY IN KINGSTON ONTARIO ON 25 JUNE 2021. AT THE TIME OF HIS BURIAL IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT CLIFFORD WAS AN INDIGENOUS VETERAN AND THEREFORE HEATHER MITCHELL FROM THE CITY...
RETIREMENT – MASTER WARRANT OFFICER ALLAN C. (CHRIS) BECKINGHAM, CD – SIG TECH – 00385
1. AFTER MORE THAN 37 YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE WITH THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES, THE COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS BRANCH, AND THE ROYAL CANADIAN CORPS OF SIGNALS, MASTER WARRANT OFFICER CHRIS BECKINGHAM WILL RETIRE FROM THE CAF ON 29 SEPTEMBER 2022....
RETIREMENT – CORPORAL LANCE MARSHALL, CD – 00109 ATIS TECH
1. CPL LANCE MARSHALL WILL BE RETIRING FROM THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES (CAF) ON OCT 2ND 2022, AFTER OVER 35 YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO CANADA. 2. LANCE JOINED THE CF ON THURSDAY THE 12TH OF FEB 1987 IN CALGARY. THE NEXT DAY HE TOOK A WHITE KNUCKLE...
RETIREMENT – WARRANT OFFICER LEONARD TALLIS, CD – 00109 ATIS TECH
1. AFTER 33 YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE, WO LEONARD TALLIS’S LAST DAY IN UNIFORM WILL BE 02 OCTOBER 2022. 2. WO TALLIS ENROLLED IN THE CAF ON 28 MARCH 1989, LANDING IN CORNWALLIS ON APRIL 1ST 1989. UPON COMPLETION OF BASIC TRAINING AND INITIAL TRADES TRAINING AT...
RETIREMENT – MASTER WARRANT OFFICER RONALD LAWTON, CD – IS TECH – 00394
1. AFTER 35 YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO CANADA, MWO RONALD LAWTON WILL RETIRE FROM THE CAF ON 24 JULY 2022. 2. MWO LAWTON ENROLLED IN HAMILTON, ONTARIO ON 15 JUNE 1987, UNDER THE SUMMER YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PLAN, WITH 705 COMMUNICATION SQUADRON...
RETIREMENT – CAPTAIN JASON ISENOR, CD, 00340 – CELE
1. AFTER MORE THAN 28 YEARS OF SERVICE, CAPTAIN JASON ISENOR WILL RETIRE FROM THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES ON THE 30TH OF SEPTEMBER, 2022. 2. JAY GREW UP IN ELMSDALE NS, AND JOINED THE CAF IN 1993 AS 031 INFANTRY. AFTER COMPLETION OF BASIC RECRUIT TRAINING AT CFRS...
RETIREMENT – WARRANT OFFICER CARMINE CORRADO, CD, 00383-01 – SIG OP
1. WARRANT OFFICER CARMINE CORRADO WILL RELEASE FROM THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES ON 31 AUG, 2022, AFTER 34 YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO CANADA AND THE ROYAL CANADIAN CORPS OF SIGNALS. CARMINE STARTED HIS MILITARY CAREER IN JUNE OF 1988, AS PART OF THE...
ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER – SUMMER 2022
ASSOCIATION NEWS Vol. 1, Issue 2, Summer 2022 Greetings to our Members! Yes, all former and serving members (Regular Force and Reserve) of the C&E Branch and its founding elements are automatically members in perpetuity of the C&E Association. Your family...
ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER – SPRING 2022
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RETIREMENT – MCPL THOMAS HALL, CD, 00394 – IS TECH
AFTER 16 YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES (CAF), MASTER CORPORAL THOMAS HALL WILL BE RETIRING ON 13 SEPTEMBER, 2022. TOM FIRST ENROLLED WITH THE CAF ON 10 JUNE 2003 AS INFANTRY. AFTER A BRIEF BREAK IN SERVICE, HE THEN...
RETIREMENT – BRIGADIER GENERAL JAMES LAMBERT, CD, 00341 SIGS
1. BRIGADIER GENERAL JAMES LAMBERT, CD WILL RETIRE FROM THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES AFTER 36 PLUS YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO CANADA ON 21 OCTOBER 2022. 2. BGEN LAMBERT JOINED THE CANADIAN FORCES IN 1986 AND GRADUATED FROM THE ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE...
Happy 100th Birthday to Cpl (ret) Hugh Patterson!
On 17 July 2022, family, friends including military family and friends gathered in the Legion in Caledonia to celebrate Cpl Patterson’s 100th birthday. He enjoyed a few beer while exchanging stories and sharing a few laughs with over one hundred people who...
77 Line Regt Newsletter – The Cable Jul 22
Dear C&E Family: Please read exciting stories about important events and updates from 77 Line Regiment in July 22 newsletter: The Cable - Volume 6 Issue 2
Capt Bencze receives the Defense Meritorious Service Medal (DMSM)
Capt Bencze receives the Defense Meritorious Service Medal (DMSM) from the U.S. Ambassador to Canada, David L. Cohen, during the 03 June 2022 U.S. Embassy Military Awards Ceremony in Ottawa. Captain Christopher G. Bencze, Canadian Army, distinguished himself by...
Burlington Veteran Douglas Ross Rickard marks 104th Birthday
June 25, 2022 — Press release from the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 60 Burlington The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 60 Burlington wishes a very Happy Birthday today to one of its valued members, 104-year old Douglas Ross Rickard (pronounced “rih-KARD”). His...
Promotion – CWO Peter Holub, CD
Peter Holub was promoted to the rank of Chief Warrant Officer, on 21 Jun at the 21 EW Regt H&A.Starting of his his enrollment on the 3rd of May 1996, CWO Peter Holub CD has proven to be exceptional in his career as a former SIGINT Specialist and Career Manager,...
RETIREMENT – MCPL CHRISTOPHER MACMILLAN – 00385-01 – SIG TECH
1. MCPL CHRISTOPHER MACMILLAN WILL BE RETIRING FROM THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES ON 01 AUG 2022, AFTER 12 YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE TO THE ROYAL CANADIAN CORP OF SIGNALS AS A SIGNALS TECHNICIAN. 2. CHRIS ENROLLED ON 27 JULY 2010 AT THE CANADIAN FORCES...
RETIREMENT – CORPORAL ALDORIA J. BRIDEAU – 00394-01 – IS TECH
1. CPL AL BRIDEAU WILL RELEASE FROM, THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES ON JUNE 21 2022, AFTER 11 YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO CANADA, THE ROYAL CANADIAN CORPS OF SIGNALS AND THE IS TECH TRADE. 2. CPL BRIDEAU ENROLLED ON APRIL 21, 2011, WHERE HE UNDERWENT...
RETIREMENT – COLONEL ERIC CYR CD, 00341 CELE
1. COL ERIC CYR, CD WILL RETIRE FROM THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES AFTER 34+ YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO CANADA ON 3 JULY 2022. 2. COLONEL CYR JOINED THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES IN 1988, ATTENDING THE COLLEGE MILITAIRE ROYAL DE ST-JEAN AND GRADUATED WITH...