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Broker Top 1% in Canada Royal LePage ProAlliance #1 in Quinte West [email protected] 394-4837 www.cfbtrenton.com March 10, 2006 • Serving 8 Wing/CFB Trenton • 8e escadre/BFC Trenton • Volume 41 Issue Number 10 • Somber repatriation ceremony at 8 Wing/CFB Trenton by Captain Nicole Armoured Vehicle (LAV) expressed her son’s love of Meszaros, III collided with a civilian being a soldier. “We have 8 Wing Public Affairs vehicle on a highway. always supported Tim’s Officer Seven Canadian Forces military career,” she said. members were involved in “Although he has died, he On Sunday evening the 8 the accident that occurred did so doing something he Wing/CFB Trenton air- March 2. loved and deeply believed field was the site of a dig- The ceremony was in - both in life and in nified ceremony as the attended by Her death.” remains of Master Excellency the Right More than 2,200 Corporal Timothy Wilson Honourable Michaëlle Canadian Forces men and of Shilo, Manitoba and Jean, Governor General of women are currently Corporal James Davis of Canada and Commander- deployed as part of Bridgewater, Nova Scotia in-Chief of the Canadian Operation ARCHER. The were repatriated. Both sol- Forces, the Honourable mission is to help the diers were members of the Gordon J. O’Connor, Afghan authorities create a 2nd Battalion of Princess Minister of National secure environment and Patricia’s Canadian Light Defence, General R.J. rebuild itself as a nation. Infantry, which is based at Hillier, Chief of the There are significant risks CFB Shilo, but prior to Defence Staff, and other involved in these opera- their deaths were serving members of the Canadian tions, but Canadian Forces in Southern Afghanistan Forces. members are among the Photo: MCpl Chris Connelly, 8 Wing Imaging as part of Operation Mrs Daphne Wilson, best trained, and most The remains of MCpl Timothy Wilson were carried away from Canadian Forces’ CC- ARCHER. wife of MCpl Wilson, also experienced soldiers in the 150004 Polaris aircraft on March 5, 2006 at 8 Wing/CFB Trenton. MCpl Wilson died During a routine mid- attended the ceremony as world. They are well led, in a US military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, after a vehicle accident in morning patrol about did his mother, Mrs Jane well equipped, and fully Kandahar, Afghanistan. Padre Zbiginew Jonczyk led the pall-bearers, who were seven kilometres west of Wilson. In a released prepared for the mission in from the Royal Canadian Regiment of CFB Petawawa, to the awaiting hearse. Kandahar City, a Light statement his mother Afghanistan. MINISTER OF NATIONAL DEFENCE VISITS 8 WING Accident by Capt Nicole Meszaros Photos: Cpl Tom Parker, 8 Wing Imaging 8 Wing PAO At approximately 9 a.m.on March 8,2006,a student on the Canadian Parachute Centre’s (CPC) Static Line Square Canopy Course did not land on the designated Drop Zone at CFB Trenton Mountain View Detachment, after jumping out of a CC-130 Hercules aircraft from 9,000 feet. Cpl Denis Coulombe, 26, of the 3rd Battalion of the Royal 22nd Regiment based in Valcartier, was transported to Belleville General Hospital and from there to the Kingston General Hospital. At press time his medical condition had been During an official visit to 8 Wing/CFB Trenton by the Minister of National Prior to departing, the Honourable Gordon O’Connor, upgraded to serious but stable,and Defence on 6 March 2006. Sgt Wade Simpson, a 424 Transport and Rescue Minister of National Defence, received a presentation from his family is with him. Squadron Search and Rescue Technician, explains standard equipment used Colonel André Deschamps, Commander, 8 Wing /CFB The CPC has suspended during rescue missions to LGen J.S. Lucas, Chief of the Air Staff, and the Trenton. The official visit was the Minister’s first to 8 jumping until further notice. The Honourable Gordon O’Connor, Minister of National Defence. 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