Archive for November, 2002
Defence Today
Mending The Militia
by Ray Dick
The struggles of the Canadian military to provide an effective fighting force to cope with an increasing [...]
November 11, 2002
Canada Corner
War Veterans In The Wilderness
Hearty, strong immigrants, United Empire Loyalists hacking a solid farm out of the woods, the simple life of Upper Canada: These are the images that draw us back to an idyllic time when anyone with an ambition [...]
November 1, 2002, by Mark Bourrie
Memoirs & Pilgrimages
Desert Duty On The Iraqi Border
by Uwe U. Beyer
Inset: An Iraqi tank is prepared for demolition; members of 29 Field Sqdn. examine what’s left of the [...]
November 1, 2002
Memoirs & Pilgrimages
Membership Has Its Advantages
by Rhonda Lee Stephenson
For six months in 1989, beginning in May and ending in October, I was retained by Club Med International to perform as an entertainer at their Turquoise location in [...]
November 1, 2002
Memoirs & Pilgrimages
Scouting On The Afghan Frontier
by Leonard Richards
Christmas Day, 1944. A mud-block fort in the Tochi Valley of North Waziristan, a few miles from Afghanistan’s southern border, on the northwest frontier of India. Snow [...]
November 1, 2002
Memoirs & Pilgrimages
Back To Dieppe
Story and photographs by Tom MacGregor
Clockwise from top left: Dominion President Allan Parks views [...]
November 1, 2002
Canada Corner
A Reputation For Innovation
In 1916, Canada was a little less than 50 years old, but it was deeply embroiled in one of the most cataclysmic conflicts the world had known to that date: World War I. The federal government [...]
November 1, 2002, by Laura Byrne Paquet
Defence Today
Canadian Forces Issues Health Warning About Vaccine
by Natalie Salat
Following a recent Health Canada review, several thousand Canadian Forces members who were vaccinated against [...]
November 1, 2002
Defence Today
Eye On Defence: Watching Our Border And Our Shores
by David J. Bercuson
Last August details began to emerge of some of the new Canada-United States arrangements that are being discussed by the two governments to aid each other in the [...]
November 1, 2002
Defence Today
Fighting The Bean Counters
Top left: Canadian peacekeeping duty in Cyprus lasted from 1964 to 1993. Bottom: Canadian soldiers pause while on [...]
