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Greenwood Military Aviation Museum marks 30 years of volunteerism
The Greenwood Military Aviation Museum (GMAM) did not officially open its doors until 1995, but a small cadre of volunteers and one staff member worked tirelessly from 1993, incorporating a society to support the museum and producing a plan for the future. That society, with wing commander and senior staff support over the years, and… Read more
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Military health trades looking for you
Master Warrant Officer Brent Conway has a cool, little-known job in the Canadian Armed Forces, and he was very eager to talk about it during a “career fair” of military health services trades that visited 14 Wing Greenwood March 30. Conway is an aviation physiology technician – one of just 12 currently working across the… Read more
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McBean calls 49 years’ work a day
Forty-nine years’ service to Canada is a milestone many will not reach. March 30, the 404 (Long Range Patrol and Training) Squadron Simulation Flight bid a fond farewell to Major (retired) Jeff McBean. McBean and his family have been a fixture in the Annapolis Valley for many years. He enjoyed flying tours at 407 Squadron,… Read more
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Experience – life, military, family – adds to new role as veterans’ advocate
Joe D’Arcy started his most recent first day on the job March 1, but it comes in his 42nd year of being in and around the Canadian Armed Forces. “I signed the dotted line December 13, 1981, but 40-plus years is not easy to condense – especially when you bounce around quite a bit and… Read more
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Swiss touch adds expertise to museum restoration work
Volunteers are the backbone of many institutions – especially true here at the Greenwood Military Aviation Museum (GMAM). In fact, we have an international flavour, as volunteer Erich Karrer grew up in the small village of Baar, canton of Zug, Switzerland. Karrer had taken a four-year course learning the tool and die maker trade after… Read more
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Interested in JTF X opportunities?
The Canadian Armed Forces’ Joint Task Force X is recruiting. Representatives will hold an awareness briefing at 14 Wing Greenwood for interested personnel Friday, April 14, 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.; in the Birchall Theatre. JTF X is looking for fit, motivated, intelligent and mature applicants with outstanding interpersonal skills who want to work in… Read more
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Visible sign of transgender safe, welcoming wing
14 Wing Greenwood’s Defence Team Pride Advisory Organization, with wing peers, raised the transgender flag at the main gate March 31 to mark the International Transgender Day of Visibility. DTPAO military co-chair Corporal Sky-Lynn Fisher welcomed attendees, and encouraged them to remember the day is not about letting people know transgender people exist: “They’ve always… Read more
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Listening, learning key to reconciliation and relationships
Wing marks International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Two guest speakers at 14 Wing Greenwood’s March 21 event to recognize the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination did their best to create a comfortable conversation around their life experiences and the change they see. “We’re going in the right direction,” said… Read more
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‘We do’
Couple caps 10-year anniversary wedding day with milestone military humanist service Five shared responses of “we do” reinforced 10 years of commitment for two Royal Canadian Air Force members March 16, as their anniversary-turned-legal wedding day celebrated some new beginnings. Captain Gordon Tait, 405 (Long Range Patrol) Squadron, and Lieutenant Lisa Bebyck, Wing Comptroller, have… Read more
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Top-tier LRP performance at NATO’s Dynamic Manta
The Royal Canadian Air Force’s long range patrol fleet demonstrated to its NATO allies it is at the top of its game at the most recent iteration of Exercise Dynamic Manta in Sicily. Seventy personnel and two aircraft deployed to the NATO Forward Operating Base at Stormo 37 Trapani from the end of February to… Read more
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