Operation Cougar Salvo 2012
11/05/2012Exercise COUGAR SALVO is 39 Canadian Brigade Group's signature large-scale training event. It involves approximately 600 Army Reservists from British Columbia, and integrates nearly 200 members of other Canadian Forces organizations and the Arizona Army National Guard, between April 28 and May 6, 2012.
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Why is Canada kicking injured soldiers when they’re down?
11/03/2012by: Sean Bruyea Special to Globe and Mail Update Published Wednesday, Mar. 07, 2012 7:36AM EST Prime Minister Stephen Harper calls enlisting in the military the “highest form of public service.” Why then is Veterans Affairs, the department which cares for the Canadian Forces when its members are injured, facing the largest proportional cu...
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Veterans review board abusive and demeaning, ex-soldiers say
11/03/2012Murray Brewster Ottawa— The Canadian Press Published Tuesday, Mar. 06, 2012 5:53AM EST They once referred to her as “the little woman” and suggested the post traumatic stress she’d suffered as a peacekeeper in the Bosnia war meant she couldn’t handle the rigours of service. “It was so patronizing, it was unreal,” Rhoni Speed ...
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Trevor and Debbie Greene: The day I got that fateful knock on the door
11/03/2012Mar 11, 2012 – 7:00 AM ET I was lying in bed on a Saturday morning between sleep and wakefulness, listening for the sounds of our baby Grace waking up. The house was still and peaceful. I realized with a pang of longing that if my fiancé were here, Trevor would be holding me in his arms right now. The only sounds I could hear from the comf...
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