Monday March 22, 2021 Volume 55, Issue 6 www.tridentnewspaper.com Putting capabilities to the test A Search and Rescue crew from 413 Transport and Rescue Squadron in 14 Wing Greenwood hoists RAdm Brian Santarpia, Commander MARLANT and JTFA, aboard HMCS Summerside from a CH-149 Cormorant helicopter during an exercise in the Bedford Basin on March 12. RAdm Santar- pia visited 14-Wing Greenwood for a tour of the facilities and to get first-hand experience with their aircraft and SAR equipment. CPL JESSICA FOX, 14 WING IMAGING 2 TRIDENT NEWS MARCH 22, 2021 Veterans Affairs Canada introduces expanded focus for commemorations By Joanie Veitch, Trident Staff How do you continue to honour Minister of Veterans Affairs Lawrence stories we share, and feels included petus is coming from the veterans veterans and their stories from the MacAulay said in a recent livestream and recognized for their service,” themselves,” he said. “From my own First and Second World Wars, and the event to announce the plan. Gauthier said. “Canada’s landscape is experience as a historian, the way our Korean War, while broadening the Starting this month and continuing changing and the expanded scope in commemorative process materialized lens on Remembrance Day and other through 2021, VAC will consult with commemoration is intended to recog- at the end of the First and Second commemorative events to include the veterans and veterans’ organizations, nize that CAF members’ experiences World Wars was essentially organic experiences of all veterans, expanding former and current Canadian Armed are different than those who served and grassroots. It was the veterans beyond traditional anniversaries and Forces members, former and current before them. It is intended to acknowl- and their families who drove the battles? RCMP members who served in inter- edge the evolving and diverse nature process—that’s how our cenotaphs got That’s the question Veterans Affairs national peacekeeping missions, and of Canada and its military —22 per built across the country and that’s the Canada (VAC) is asking as they work their families, to share their ideas cent are new citizens who may have way the ceremonies got organized — it on a 10-year strategic plan that aims to about recognition and remembrance. little knowledge of Canada’s military was not driven by Ottawa, It was di- expand the focus of commemoration According to VAC spokesperson Em- contribution to peace and security in rected by the people who served. And activities, in consultation with a Com- ily Gauthier, the goal is to continue to the world.” it seems to me that’s what’s happening memoration Advisory Group, other share stories and mark key anniversa- Dr. Lee Windsor is a member of again.” stakeholders and veterans themselves. ries from the First and Second World VAC’s Commemoration Advisory In the coming weeks and months, “As time passes, it’s important that Wars, and the Korean War, at ceremo- Group. A military historian and for- VAC will be reaching out to Veterans the way we remember those who’ve nies at home and abroad, while adding mer member of the Canadian Armed organizations and partners to try to worn the uniform continues to evolve. more recent stories and contributions Forces, Dr. Windsor teaches at the “spread the word among their mem- Our goal here is to make sure that from international security, peace University of New Brunswick in Fred- bership and networks,” Gaultier said. we recognize and pay tribute to all of support and humanitarian missions, ericton and is The Fredrik S. Eaton To find out more about the new the brave Canadians who’ve stepped as well as domestic operations here at Chair in Canadian Army Studies at approach, or to register to share forward to serve—not just in the wars home. UNB’s Gregg Centre for the Study of ideas and thoughts about how best to we so often think about, but also in “By expanding our scope, it is our War and Society. recognize and commemorate veterans’ the more modern day missions and hope that each person who served “What I think is exciting about experiences, go to: http://letstalkvet- operations that have followed them,” this country sees themselves in the this new approach is that the im- erans.ca/commemoration. Operation NANOOK- NUNALIVUT Joint Task Force North CWO Sherri Forward (bottom-left) and Commanding Officer BGen Patrick Carpentier (bottom, second from left) pose with dive team members Anniversary of of Fleet Diving Unit (Atlantic) at the dive site in Great Slave Lake, Yellowknife, NT during Operation NANOOK-NUNALIVUT on March 4. CPL SIMON ARCAND, FORMATION IMAGING SERVICES the Liberation of Cpl Mathieu Lavoie returns from a dive operation with a Kuwait thumbs up signal during Oper- ation NANOOK-NUNALIVUT February 28 marked the 30-year anniversary of the end of the Gulf War and the on March 3. Liberation of Kuwait. In this photo, HMC ships Athabaskan, Protecteur and Terra CPL SIMON ARCAND, FORMATION Nova conduct a replenishment-at-sea while en route to the Persian Gulf in Septem- IMAGING SERVICES ber 1990 on Operation FRICTION, Canada’s contribution to the US-led internation- al coalition. MARLANT PA TRIDENT NEWS MARCH 22, 2021 3 HMCS Windsor MS Remi Ducharme was named and was presented the 2020 Exceptional Sailor & Centennial Cup award virtually on March 1 in Halifax. MONA GHIZ, MARLANT PA begins sea trials HMCS Windsor departed HMC Dockyard Halifax for sea trials in the Bedford Basin on March 16. 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SISIP.COM Charlottetown, which included his job well done! SNMG1 4 TRIDENT NEWS MARCH 22, 2021 www.tridentnewspaper.com HMCS Brunswicker plans for its future Editor: Ryan Melanson while paying tribute to the past [email protected] (902) 427-4235 By Joanie Veitch, Trident Staff Reporter: Joanie Veitch [email protected] (902) 427-4238 Although a pandemic connect them to Brunswick- Editorial Advisor: Margaret Conway wasn’t on their mind at the er in Saint John. [email protected] time, leadership at HMCS “They would work all 902-721-0560 Brunswicker employed new day then go home and eat technology in the summer of supper — if they were lucky Editorial Advisor: Ariane Guay-Jadah 2019 that ended up putting — and then drive an hour [email protected] the unit in an ideal posi- and a half to Saint John to 902-721-8341 tion to deal with COVID-19 train for three hours, and www.tridentnewspaper.com restrictions. then drive back home again. Trident is an authorized military publication distributed The Naval Reserve Di- It was rough on them, and across Canada and throughout the world every second vision in Saint John, New rough on their families,” Monday, and is published with the permission of Rear Admiral Brian Santarpia, Commander, Joint Task Force Brunswick started using said Cdr Brown.