We support ALL Veterans Cold Lake Branch 211 Call 780-639-3579 Volume 51 Number 13 www.couriernews.ca April 3, 2018 Participating nations confirmed for Maple Flag 51 Armée de l’air The French Air Force will bring its E-3F Sentry AWACS for Maple Flag in June. RCAF Participating RCAF aircraft (as of aircraft • Discovery Air Defence (DADS) March 23) • United States Air Force (USAF) Services Dornier Alpha Jet advanced Exercise Maple Flag 51 will take • CF-18 Hornet fighter aircraft F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft trainer aircraft place between June 11 and 22, welcoming • CC-130J Hercules transport • NATO Airborne Early Warning • Brazilian Air Force (FAB) air and ground crews as well as support aircraft and Control Force (NAEW&C) E-3A C-130H Hercules transport aircraft personnel from across Canada and • CC-130T Hercules air-to-air Sentry AWACS • Qatar Emiri Air Force (QEAF) around the world. refuelling aircraft • French Air Force (FAF) E-3F C-130J Hercules transport aircraft This year’s exercise will bring • CC-150T Polaris air-to-air Sentry AWACS • Qatar Emiri Air Force (QEAF) together more than 1,500 Canadian refuelling aircraft • Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) C-17A Globemaster transport aircraft Armed Forces personnel along with Participating international aircraft IDS Tornado fighter aircraft Participating international ground hundreds of personnel from allied and (as of March 20) • Royal Australian Air Force forces (as of March 20) partner nations. • United States Navy (USN) F/A- (RAAF) F/A-18A Hornet fighter • Belgian Land Component (BLC) The exercise will include operations 18F Super Hornet fighter aircraft aircraft Pathfinders in command and control, air-to-air • United States Navy (USN) F/A- • Belgian Air Component • Royal Norwegian Air Force and air-to-surface tactics and weapons 18G Super Hornet electronic warfare (BAC) F-16AM Fighting Falcon fighter (RNoAF) Ground Control Intercept employment, and air-to-air refuelling on aircraft aircraft Controllers a large scale. The following participants • United States Air Force (USAF) • Peruvian Air Force (FAP) • United States Marine Corp are expected: B-52 Stratofortress strategic bomber M-2000P Mirage fighter aircraft (USMC) LOCAL LOCAL SPORTS & FITNESS WEEKLY DJA advises commanders on Applications open for The Road to Nijmegen, Part 1 Movies & more! military law memorial scholarships The 4 Wing team is preparing for Movies .................................Page 4 Maj Henri Bernatchez is the CWO Peter Stauffer scholarships the annual Nijmegen Marches in Padre ...................................Page 6 military lawyer at CFB Cold Lake. are available for graduating high July. Entertainment.....................Page 7 Page 3 school students. 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An Centennial Building(#67), PO Box 6190 Stn Forces, extemporaneous Jeff Gaye Cold Lake, AB T9M 2C5 Phone: (780) 594-5206 Fax: (780) 594-2139 Email: [email protected] riff on chocolate FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK omeone once advised Mel but I’ve seen ads promoting forever! But for some reason it THE COURIER STAFF Brooks that chocolate is bad chocolate milk as something to doesn’t work that way. MANAGER for the teeth. He replied, drink after an intense workout. According to Dr. Axe, Daphnée Hudon S “Teeth aren’t good for chocolate, (I’ll pass. I mean on the intense whoever that is, there are seven EDITOR/REPORTER Jeff Gaye either.” workout, but probably on the awesome health benefits to PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Teeth are very bad for chocolate milk as well.) dark chocolate. One of them is Alina Mallais chocolate. My teeth damaged I’m trying to keep up with the “Protection from disease-causing ADMIN/SALES a whole lot of chocolate this math. Dark chocolate is good for free radicals.” Sounds vaguely Karla Callbeck weekend, and I worry that the your teeth; milk is good for your political to me. Maybe we’re chocolate will ultimately take its teeth. So if you mix calcium-rich supposed to throw the dark EDITORIAL ADVISOR revenge. milk into the chocolate and make chocolate at the radicals to repel 4 WING PUBLIC AFFAIRS The good people at Google milk chocolate, you’d expect your them from the barricades. Those Capt Mat Strong advise me I may have done my dental health would be assured squares of semi-sweet baker’s teeth a favour. There is a camp chocolate could cause some DEADLINE that says dark chocolate (the bruising. Wednesday at 1500 hrs for the following Tuesday miracle food!) is actually good for But chocolate is wasted CIRCULATION your teeth. on radicals. Chocolate is for 2600 This follows a pattern. Brown moderates like me. I live for bread, brown eggs, brown rice, moderation. As Oscar Wilde The Courier is published weekly with the permission of dark chocolate and red wine are said, “Everything in moderation. the 4 Wing Cold Lake Wing Commander Col Doyle. The all supposedly better for us than Including moderation.” opinions expressed are those of the contributor and do their paler counterparts. Brown not reflect those of the Editor, Canadian Forces, or DND. The Editor reserves the right to reject, edit, or condense milk appears to be the exception, iClipart [email protected] any editorial or advertising material. Printed by Star Press, Wainwright, AB. Publié hebdomadairement avec la permission du Commandant de l’escadre, le col Doyle. Les opinions Spot a Typo? Coffee’s On Us. personnelles exprimées dans ce journal sont celles des collaborateurs et ne représentent pas les opinions de la Spelling mistakes and typographical errors happen to the best of us. 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As the DJA on said. “Military law is all we do – anything 40 per cent of his time on administrative a base, Maj Bernatchez is the person to do with discipline or military admin law and another 40 per cent on military A typical civilian lawyer’s office to ask when commanding officers matters. We get involved in operations justice matters. Operational law takes space is set up to impress you with have questions about any of the three on a base in a limited way, usually when up the remaining 20 per cent. trappings of professionalism, success pillars. there are domestic operations like The latter, he says, “is mostly and power. “DJAs are the first line legal advisors responding to a flood or a wildfire.” briefings.” Maj Henri Bernatchez, the Deputy at the tactical level in the regions,” he Maj Bernatchez says he spends about “We give legal briefings for pre- Judge Advocate (DJA) at CFB Cold Lake, deployment. For example we will is certainly professional and successful, provide briefings on the law of armed but his unpretentious office in Building conflict, the CAF code of conduct 170 doesn’t send power signals. It is a in operations, use of force, rules of functional workplace where DND’s engagement,” he said. military law responsibilities in Cold “We also offer services for personal Lake are taken care of. legal preparation. For example, when Maj Bernatchez trained as a lawyer units are going abroad we will help out in Quebec and spent several years in with filling out power of attorney forms civilian practice.