DND manages infrastructureat numerous sites including water systems serving military bases and local municipalities. The aim of theWTPOP is to enhance public health protection and to cost-effectively optimize water systems. This paperwill summarize the background, approach and results of ongoing ...
The shortfall in pilots and mechanics was referenced in an internal report recently published by the Department of National Defence, which also flagged underspending on maintenance for bases and other infrastructure, as well as reductions in annual flying times thanks to Conservative-era budget cuts. ...
But that has since been changed and the robotic aircraft will now be located as needed at a forward operating base in the Arctic with other Royal Canadian Air Force planes. Those bases will receive new or upgraded hangars as part of efforts to modernize NORAD capabilities. What hasn’t chang...
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As the Allied ground troops swarmed across the Rhine in the eerie darkness, the airborne forces were just beginning to form up in bases in England and France. The aerial armada, numbering 1,696 troop transports and 1,050 tug aircraft towing 1,348 gliders departing from 26 airfiel...
Another three would be forced into emergency landings at other air bases in England. Reid’s plane crashed in the French Alps, not far from the town of Grenoble, near the Swiss border. Members of the French resistance heard the plane struggling to maintain altitude, then shortly afterward, ...
42 Radar Squadron re-located to 4 Wing Cold Lake and the squadron’s radar equipment was moved to the Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range. With the Unification of the Forces, the base was re-named Canadian Forces Base Cold Lake. The introduction of the Wing Concept at Air Bases in 1993 resul...
In the early to mid 1960s, a reorganization and consolidation occurred within the Canadian Military. Several Army, Navy and RCAF bases were either downsized, merged or closed. As a result, Camp Dundurn was downsized to a detachment of CFB Moose Jaw in 1966. No. 6 Ordinance Ammunition Depot...
With the happening of World War ll Vi became one of four Canadian women and the longest serving pilot to work in the British Air Transport Auxiliary during World War ll delivering 47 different types of airplanes from factories to military bases. It was here that she met her future husband ...
By 1940 it had strong bases in Montreal, Toronto, Boston, New York, Chicago, and Detroit—the "original six". After 1923 it became a cartel that controlled all aspects of professional hockey. Expansion into the United States, the collapse of other professional leagues, the establishment of a...