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  • Night shift

    Night shift

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    413 (Transport and Rescue) Squadron deployed both a CH149 Cormorant and a CC130H Hercules from 14 Wing Greenwood to 5 Wing Goose Bay May 13 to 15, where search and rescue technicians participated in a live night parachute FLAREX. This training relies on careful crew coordination to dispatch flares, allowing SAR-Techs to safely parachute into…

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  • ‘Giddy Up’ for cross-Canada bike adventure

    ‘Giddy Up’ for cross-Canada bike adventure

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    There’s not much holding back Corporal (retired) Chris Wallis: he’s made “Giddy Up Chris!” the tagline of his most ambitious adventure yet: crossing Canada on a Honda CRF300L Rally motorbike. “I just like the saying,” he says. Wallis spent his first 40 years in England, before emigrating to Canada in 2002. When an ex-navy friend…

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  • June 9 marks Commonwealth airmen’s service at Middleton cemetery

    June 9 marks Commonwealth airmen’s service at Middleton cemetery

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    The annual decoration of the graves of 27 Commonwealth Second World War service members, buried at Old Holy Trinity Cemetery in Middleton, will be held Sunday, June 9 at 7 p.m. The public is welcome to join Royal Canadian Legion Middleton Branch 1, with 14 Wing Greenwood personnel, and the community, as a single rose…

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