by Editor | Nov 25, 2024 | Army Reserve, Army Reserves, Exercises, News, Training System
by Ken Pole At the last tally by the United Nations, dozens of member states continued to struggle with various types of unexploded ordnance (UXO), some of it dating back more than a century. Not all are the legacy of combat; many continue to be found in...
by Editor | Oct 19, 2024 | News, Procurement, Training System
by Ian Coutts “We don’t want someone buying a new rucksack who hasn’t marched with a rucksack in the last 20 years.” Colonel Walter Taylor is trying to explain the kind of graduate that the Army’s Applied Military Science Department School, at the...
by Editor | Jun 18, 2024 | Army Reserve, News, Training System
by Chris Thatcher With the standup of a Canadian-led multinational brigade in Latvia as of 2026, the Army is transforming how it validates brigade leadership and subunits for operations. The large collective training exercises of Unified Resolve, a...
by Editor | May 17, 2024 | Army Reserves, News, Training System
by Lt(N) Andrew McLaughlin Approximately 300 soldiers from 33 Canadian Brigade Group (33 CBG) recently completed a major emergency response exercise in Mattawa and North Bay with local civilian partners. 33 Territorial Battalion Group (33 TBG), formed by 33...
by Editor | May 8, 2024 | News, Training System
by Chris Thatcher The training area of the Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center (JPMRC) is nothing new to Canadian light infantry. Units have for years been training alongside American partners in Fort Wainwright, Alaska. As recently as last April, a...
by Editor | Mar 25, 2024 | Leadership, News, Training System
Story and photos by Chris Thatcher On a clear, cool morning in mid April, a platoon from Charlie Company of the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (3 PPCLI) loaded into three CH-146 Griffons and a CH-147F Chinook and lifted off...
