Category: 14 Wing

CFS Sydney ‘a special spot’

July 15, 2024

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Sara White

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14 Wing, Community, News

Apparently we all missed the best posting: working, or living near, Canadian Forces Station (CFS) Sydney. Several dozen people gathered June 21 to 23 for a too-long-delayed first reunion, 32 years after the radar site was decommissioned, and 59 years since one attendee last cleaned the base rink’s ice. “We had a ball,” says co-lead…
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Summer work training: fun, games, skills

July 15, 2024

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Aurora News

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14 Wing, News, Recreation

June 26, 14 Wing’s Personnel Support Programs (PSP), in partnership with the Lifesaving Society of Nova Scotia (NSLS) hosted the annual Valley recreation departments’ summer staff training day. Approximately 75 summer staff from Windsor to Digby, 53 of which are also certified lifeguards, gathered at Greenwood’s Community Centre and Fitness and Sports Centre indoor pool…
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Bombs away! GMAM Boly restoration progresses

July 15, 2024

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Aurora News

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14 Wing, Community, News

The Bristol Bolingbroke restoration team at the Greenwood Military Aviation Museum (GMAM) has been beavering away over the last year, building new bomb bay doors, torn away April 28, 1943, when the aircraft made a forced belly-landing in a farmer’s field near Dafoe, Saskatchewan. The museum’s aircraft, registered as tail number 9997, suffered an engine…
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