The Maple Leaf

17 August 2011
Vol. 14, No. 26
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Photos from Vol.14, No. 26 (17 August 2011)

CWO Kaye (centre), from 37 Bde HQ in Moncton, discusses dress and deportment issues, and equipment worn by US soldiers, with

The “Combat Hospital” set

In Kosovo in 1999, Pte Troy Forrester, from 1 PPCLI BG, pulls guard duty on Op KINETIC, Canada’s contribution to KFOR, the NATO peacekeeping force in Kosovo.

MGen Jonathan Vance reviews band members after the parade at the Ottawa Peacekeeping Monument,

Fighter pilots discuss their exercise mission.

Dugout boats are a common form of transportation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where rivers are more reliable than roads.

A CC-177 Globemaster lands for the first time at CFS Alert.

Air Commodore (Ret) Len Birchall, “Saviour of Ceylon”

SAR tech MCpl Nic Meunier treats a Haitian woman during Op HESTIA.

Cpl Dan Perry wheels a torpedo away from a CH-124 Sea King on the flight deck of the HMCS Fredericton during a counter-piracy operation.

A 442 Squadron Cormorant trains with a crash boat off Vancouver Island.

An Air cadet from 188 (Cobra) Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron is a sentry at Canadian Forces College in Toronto on Remembrance Day.

A Griffon helicopter flies over Bihac castle in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Un Griffon survole le château Bihac en Bosnie-Herzégovine. Chinook helicopters fly in formation in Afghanistan.

Chinook helicopters fly in formation in Afghanistan.

The Snowbirds fly in formation.

JCRs leave the main camp for a training site at Camp Loon.

A JCR builds confidence zip-lining across a river.

The new Equipment Fielding Coordination Centre in Montréal.

CWO Giovanni Moretti, Army Sergeant Major (left); LGen Peter Devlin, Chief of the Land Staff; and Maj Éric Soucy, EFCC CO, inaugurate the new building.

LCdr Andrew Schlosser displays the two awards he received at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom.

Using a portable air compressor, LS Raphail Marcouiller and LS Aaron Page, from the Fleet Diving Unit –Atlantic (FDU-A) fill up diving tanks that will be used by the US Coast Guard during Operation NANOOK 11. Op NANOOK 11 is the centrepiece of three major sovereignty operations conducted annually by the CF in Canada’s North.

Incoming commander of Maritime Command VAdm Paul Maddison (left), Chief of the Defence Staff Walt Natynczyk, and departing commander VAdm Dean McFadden sign the change-of-command certificates July 22 in Ottawa.

The Canadian Contingent for the International Four Day March marches through the streets of Nijmegen in the Netherlands, during the Via Gladiola parade on the last day of this physically and emotionally demanding event.

OS Yvette Yong and MCpl Jean Lelion with their medals from the 2011 Military World Games.