Author: Second Lieutenant Derek Gaudet


  • Off the back of a Herc

    Off the back of a Herc

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    14 Wing Greenwood’s 413 (Transport and Rescue) Squadron crews got in a nice day’s training June 6 over the ZX airfield and nearby lakes: flying, jumping, putting skills and gear to work. Practice means professional, when SAR personnel are called out to bring search, medical and evacuation resources into an emergency scene.

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  • Always time for special museum visitors…

    Always time for special museum visitors…

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    Two careers’ worth of stories were swapped in a morning’s tour of the Greenwood Military Aviation Museum July 2, as museum society chairman Royal Canadian Air Force Major General (retired) Ian Patrick hosted visiting United States Air Force Colonel (retired) Loran Gierhart, from Texas. The former military pilots compared aircraft flown, bases and airfields they’d…

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  • Cancer challenge motivates Valley cyclist

    Cancer challenge motivates Valley cyclist

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    For Marie Johnstone, cancer has “hit too close to home, too often.” She has dedicated the last four years to raising funds for the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) through the Great Cycle Challenge Canada. “I think I started because my daughter, Angela’s best friend at school died of cancer and, being so close to…

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