Re: Canadian Forces (Training) - (Exercise)

by **Alpha** Sun 10 Feb 2019, 8:11 pm

Armed forces train for emergencies in St. Marys

Feb 10, 2019

by Cool~Way Mon 11 Feb 2019, 1:41 pm

MILITARY DISASTER TRAINING EXERCISE COMING TO EASTERN VANCOUVER ISLAND

MONDAY, FEB. 11TH, 2019

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Command post set-up and briefing for Ex Ready Renaissance held at Bakers Island in Trenton, Ontario on February 21, 2018. Image by: Corporal Ken Beliwicz, 8 Wing Imaging 2018 DND-MDN Canada

NORTHERN VANCOUVER ISLAND, B.C. – Starting next week, roughly 100 Canadian Armed Forces members will be on the North Island to hone their skills, in the event of a natural disaster.

The members will be conducting a training exercise in and around Comox, Campbell River, Quadra Island and Nanaimo from Feb. 17 to March 1.

This year, Vancouver Island has been selected for Exercise READY RENAISSANCE, the annual training of the Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART).

This team consists of Canadian Armed Forces members and can be deployed when natural disasters and emergencies happen outside Canada.

Participants will conduct liaison and reconnaissance tasks across the North Island, to exercise support to Global Affairs Canada in a fictitious disaster scenario taking place abroad.

Canadian Armed Forces members may be dressed in civilian clothing or uniform and will carry identification at all times.

The scenario does not include exercises with weapons or ammunition.

Civilian rental vehicles will be used to transport members.

The Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel HMCS Nanaimo will also be part of the exercise, and might be seen from shore.

According to a release, this type of training is necessary to prepare Canadian Armed Forces and Government of Canada to response to a disaster that may occur in the world.

“The Canadian Armed Forces appreciates the public support in this matter,” the release said.

https://www.mycampbellrivernow.com/32495/military-disaster-training-exercise-coming-to-eastern-vancouver-island/

by Stealth Mon 11 Feb 2019, 5:41 pm

Local Army reservists host US Forces for winter training

SARAH GAWDIN / Feb. 11, 2019

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Oregon Army National Guard troops from the 2nd Battalion, 162nd Infantry Regiment, 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team, and soldiers from the Royal Westminster Regiment, pull a toboggan along their snowshoe march during EXERCISE WESTIE AVALANCHE, January 27, 2019, at E.C. Manning Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada. (Photo by Sgt. 1st Class April Davis, Oregon Military Department Public Affairs)

https://www.theprogress.com/news/local-army-reservists-host-us-forces-for-winter-training/

by Silversun Wed 13 Feb 2019, 4:20 pm

Canadian Medical Emergency Response Team completes aeromedical evacuation course

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Operational Readiness Aeromedical Course (ORAC) students, instructors and support staff posing in front of a CH-147 Chinook. Photo: Corporal J. Smith

Tags: International | Operations & Exercises | RCAF | Training

From November 19 to 30, 2018, Canadian Medical Evacuation Team (CMERT) personnel deployed on Operation PRESENCE Roto 1 participated in the Operational Readiness Aeromedical Course (ORAC) at 450 Tactical Helicopter Squadron (THS).

The ORAC is a clinically focused Forward Aeromedical Evacuation (Fwd AE) course, instructed by physicians and nurses of the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF).

For the first time in the Canadian Forces Health Services Group (CF H Svcs Gp), training was exclusively provided to CF H Svcs personnel, in Canada, by a training cadre made up entirely of instructors from another country.

Many of the RNLAF instructors have ties to the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) as graduates of the aeromedical evacuation course provided by CF H Svcs Gp and Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) personnel at 426 Squadron, Trenton.

This unique partnership provided the CMERT the opportunity to experience high quality training, close to home, on CAF aircraft – the CH-147 Chinook. CF H Svcs and 450 THS personnel supported the course by providing liaisons, casualty simulation, and aircraft and crew.

https://ml-fd.caf-fac.ca/en/2019/02/24697

by Terrarium Wed 13 Feb 2019, 8:16 pm

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BOMB DISPOSAL TRAINING RUNNING AT CFB COMOX

JAMES WOOD, STAFF WEDNESDAY, FEB. 13TH, 2019

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An explosion is captured on a video still during training at CFB Comox on February 13th, 2019. Photo by James Wood/98.9 The Goat/Vista Radio

https://www.mycampbellrivernow.com/32673/bomb-disposal-training-running-at-cfb-comox/

by **Hammercore** Mon 18 Feb 2019, 7:04 pm

Van Isle hosts troops from across Canada for military exercise

By NanaimoNewsNOW Staff
February 18, 2019

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Members of the Canadian Armed Forces meet prior to a mock natural disaster exercise off the east side of Vancouver Island.

ANAIMO — An annual military training exercise simulating a mock natural disaster scenario outside Canada is underway on the central and north Island.

Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) announced 100 of their troops from across Canada who are also part of the Disaster Assistance Response Team are training in Nanaimo and Campbell River between Feb 17 and March 1.

CAF public affairs officer major Gabriel Rousseau said the exercise includes a naval defence ship HMCS Nanaimo, which will be used in the waters off Campbell River.

He said the no weapons or ammunition will be used, while uniformed and uniformed military members will carry ID at all times.

“It's a team that we put together when disaster happens, so you have people from Quebec and New Brunswick for example. All of those specialists are re-grouped for the exercise,” Rousseau said.

The training is geared toward sharpening the skills of Canadian Armed Forces in case of natural disasters that could occur abroad, Rousseau said.

https://nanaimonewsnow.com/article/608933/van-isle-hosts-troops-across-canada-military-exercise

by Matrix Sun 24 Feb 2019, 4:42 pm

CAF Reservists Train for Northern Scenarios in ‘Arctic Bison’ Exercise
February 24, 2019

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Members of 38 Canadian Brigade Group’s Arctic Response Company Group evacuate their notional cold weather casualty during Exercise ARCTIC BISON 2019 at Silver City, Yukon Territories on Feb 21, 2019. (CPL. MIGUEL MOLDEZ, 38 CANADIAN BRIGADE GROUP)

Members of the Canadian Armed Forces have returned after completing a winter training exercise in the Yukon to prepare them for deployment to Canada’s Northern and Arctic regions.

Approximately 75 Canadian Army Reservists from 38 Canadian Brigade Group, 3rd Canadian Division, conducted Exercise Arctic Bison 2019 earlier this week.

The training scenario had soldiers responding to a fictional incident to establish a secure route between Killarny Research Station and an aircraft crash site. The route took soldiers across 110 kilometres in challenging mountainous terrain to an aircraft crash site approximately 40 kilometres north of Haines Junction.

As part of this task, the Arctic Response Company Group built an austere landing strip intended to establish a resupply system supported by 440 Transport Squadron’s CC-138 Twin Otter aircraft.

38 CBG, being one of the primary force generation organizations for land-based domestic operations in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Northwest Ontario, must be able to provide a relevant, responsive, and effective task-tailored force to respond to any request for assistance by various federal, provincial, and municipal government organizations

“38 Canadian Brigade Group’s Arctic Response Company Group proved to be very proficient in operating in an austere cold weather environment,” said Lt.-Col. Dennis Desrochers, in a release.

“Soldiers, with support from 1 Canadian Ranger Patrol Group, accomplished all tasks in an effective and safe manner. I think Canadians can be confident in our soldiers’ ability to deploy in extreme conditions when they are called upon to support domestic operations or to respond to a Northern incident.”

https://www.chrisd.ca/2019/02/24/canadian-armed-forces-arctic-bison-exercise/#.XHMA4OhKijg

by Phrampton Thu 28 Feb 2019, 7:57 pm

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Lieutenant-colonel Jill Lutz from Canadian Joint Operations Command (left) and Sandra Rossiter from Global Affairs Canada (right) consult with fictional mayor of ‘Carrol River,’ played by SRD protective services coordinator Shawn Koopman last week as part of Ready Renaissance, an annual training exercise for Canadian Disaster Assistance Response Teams. Photo by Mike Davies/Campbell River Mirror

Ready Renaissance helps train Canadian response teams for future international disasters

MIKE DAVIES / Feb. 28, 2019

https://www.campbellrivermirror.com/news/ready-renaissance-helps-train-canadian-response-teams-for-future-international-disasters/

by Scorpion Fri 01 Mar 2019, 4:03 pm

Armed Forces to conduct training in Happy Valley-Goose Bay area

The Western Star
Published: March 1, 2019

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Exercise Northern Sojourn, the Canadian Forces’ annual advanced winter warfare training in Labrador, is taking place from March 1-9. - 5th Canadian Division - Contributed

HAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY, N.L. — A large number of military personnel will be training in the Lake Melville region over the next nine days.
Exercise Northern Sojourn 2019 will run from March 1-9, bringing approximately 400 soldiers and Canadian Rangers to the area to conduct winter warfare training.

During the annual exercise soldiers will conduct specialized training that is specific to Northern operations using the challenging sub-arctic climate of Labrador.

A press release from the Armed Forces says residents of Happy Valley-Goose Bay and North West River can expect an increase in military vehicle traffic on the roads and an increase in snowmobile traffic along trail systems in the area while this is ongoing.

https://www.thewesternstar.com/news/regional/armed-forces-to-conduct-training-in-happy-valley-goose-bay-area-288585/

by **Zoneforce** Sun 03 Mar 2019, 9:38 am

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Picture credit: Canada’s Joint Task Force - Impact's Canadian Training Assistance Team in Lebanon (CTAT-L) Facebook page. (photo credit: CANADIAN ARMED FORCES IN LEBANON)

March 3, 2019

anada’s Armed Forces are in Lebanon training troops in basic winter warfare which will allow them to better protect their borders, read a Facebook post by Canada’s Joint Task Force - Impact's Canadian Training Assistance Team in Lebanon (CTAT-L).

The training in the “snowy mountains of Lebanon” are aimed to help the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) to improve their basic military capabilities such as patrolling, ski and mountaineering, and knots and ascension/rappelling.

Canada has deployed close to 850 troops to the Middle East as part of Operation IMPACT, which began in 2014 and has since changed from a combat mission against Islamic State militants to a train, assist and advise mission for security forces.

As part of Operation IMPACT, CTAT-L trains LAF forces to secure its border with Syria and also provides cold weather clothing, tool kits for border outposts and combat first aid training.

The Canadian Armed Force (CAF) “operations in Lebanon are part of Canada's whole of government approach to enhancing the security and capability of the region,” the post read, adding that the their “presence in the Middle East is helping to set the conditions for the long-term success of regional partners, like Lebanon, by enabling their military forces to more effectively secure their borders and plan and execute operations against destabilizing organizations like Daesh.”

Canada has also provided LAF logistics trucks and snowmobile trailers in late February during the ceremony marking the graduation of LAF troops from the basic winter warfare training which was attended by Joint Task Force-Impact Commander, Brig-Gen. Colin Keiver, senior ranking officers of the LAF and Canada’s Ambassador to Lebanon, Emmanuelle Lamoureux.

“It is here that the Canadian Armed Forces has a niche opportunity to help build the capacity of the Lebanese Armed Forces,” CTAT-L team leader Lt.-Col David Hill was quoted as saying on another Facebook post, adding that “as Canadians, we know the cold and it’s something our soldiers are used to operating in. We can share that expertise with Lebanese soldiers who are charged with protecting Lebanon’s snowy and mountainous border region.”

In September a report by London-based Asharq Al-Awsat said that Hezbollah’s growing influence on Lebanon’s government has lead the United States to consider stopping to provide military aid to the LAF and other Lebanese security agencies.

International weapon sales to Lebanon are also under heavy scrutiny over fears that they could end up in the hands of Hezbollah.

Israel and Hezbollah fought a deadly 33-day war in 2006, which came to an end under UN Security Council Resolution 1701 which called for disarmament of Hezbollah, for withdrawal of the Israeli army from Lebanon, for the deployment of the Lebanese army and an enlarged UN force in the south.

Senior officials in Israel’s defense establishment have warned that Lebanon’s army has lost its independence and has become an integral part of Hezbollah’s network.

According to the IDF cooperation between the LAF and Hezbollah has increased in the past year and has warned that the next war will see Israel target not only military infrastructure but civilian infrastructure used by Hezbollah.

It is believed that the event of another war with Hezbollah, the IDF’s objective would be to occupy parts of southern Lebanon in order to force a UN resolution that improves the security situation on the northern border.

https://www.jpost.com/International/Canadian-forces-train-Lebanese-Armed-Forces-in-winter-warfare-582313

by Garrison Mon 04 Mar 2019, 8:55 am

Canadian special forces from Petawawa wrap up African exercise

DAVID PUGLIESE, OTTAWA CITIZEN March 3, 2019

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A member of Canadian special forces conducts training with African forces during Exercise Flintlock.

Canadian special forces were in Africa taking part in the annual U.S.-led Exercise Flintlock.

Canada’s participation in Flintlock 2019 started in Burkina Faso on Feb. 18 and went until March 1.

Elements of the Canadian Special Operations Regiment (CSOR) from Petawawa participated in the exercise, which is part of Canada’s commitment to counter-terrorism and capacity-building in the Sahel region.

CSOR personnel worked with the Forces Armées Nigeriennes in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkino Faso. CSOR also had a staff officer working in the Joint Military Headquarters in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

The Canadian Forces Health Services Group also sent a mobile surgical resuscitation team to provide primary medical support to the exercise.

In total, around 50 Canadians took part in the exercise.

Like in previous years, CSOR focused on providing training in firearms, patrolling and night operations and the Law of Armed Conflict.

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/canadian-special-forces-from-petawawa-wrap-up-african-exercise

by **Warrior** Mon 25 Mar 2019, 7:14 pm

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A panoramic view of a dive site being set up on the ice during Operation Nanook-Nunalivut in Tuktoyaktuk on March 21, 2019. Photo: MCpl Gabrielle DesRochers

Military divers from five nations arrive in Tuktoyaktuk

By Sarah Pruys – March 25, 2019

Tuktoyaktuk and the Nunavut community of Resolute Bay are welcoming military divers from five nations this month.

Divers from Canada, France, Finland, Sweden, and Norway are working to build their ice diving knowledge and test new equipment as part of Operation Nanook-Nunalivut.

Matthew Innocent, a sergeant with the Canadian Forces and a combat engineer by trade, specializes in combat diving. He explained what the divers focus on in their training.

“As a combat engineer, we’re in charge of ensuring that friendly forces can move, can fight, and can manoeuvre. And we want to deny that to the enemy [in a] subsurface and an underwater condition,” Innocent told Cabin Radio.

“It also allows us to work with other Canadian Forces when it comes to water crossings, bottom profiling, or checking out anything … in and around water.

“We’re testing all this new equipment to see how it holds up in the harsh Canadian climate,” he said, adding the equipment includes a new surface supply system – which provides air to divers while underwater.

The task force arrived in Tuktoyaktuk late last week and, after setting up a dive site a couple of kilometres outside the community, began diving on Friday.

Multi-national task force
Innocent’s Canadian contingent includes 10 combat divers. Including other Canadian and European divers, there are about 50 participants in total on site, he estimated.

“It is a joint exercise,” said Innocent. “Some countries have brought their own equipment to test up here to see how it works in the harsh Canadian climate.

“It’s a great learning opportunity for everybody to learn new skills, drills, and evolve their own skills and drills moving forward.”

Innocent said weather conditions were clear and favourable as they were setting up and beginning their dives: temperatures hovered between -20C and -29C, while the warmer water was between -1C and 1C.

Still, divers are only in the water for 10 to 15 minutes at a time – and never exceed 20 minutes unless they are using extremely specialized equipment.

Some of the divers are participating in a Defence Research and Development Canada study during the operation.

Researchers are collecting data on how human temperatures fluctuate in the cold.

https://cabinradio.ca/14209/news/beaufort-delta/military-divers-from-five-nations-arrive-in-tuktoyaktuk/

by **Falcon** Wed 27 Mar 2019, 1:35 pm

NEWS 27 MARCH, 2019

Redesigned Operation Nanook gets underway in the Canadian Arctic
Op Nanook no longer a summer-only emergency response exercise

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Members of the Arctic Response Company Group disembark at the Resolute Bay airport on March 23 from a 737 jet chartered from Nolinor. They are among the nearly 500 Canadian Armed Forces personnel participating in Operation Nanook this month. (Photo: Jérôme J.X. Lessard, DND)

By Jim Bell

Nearly 500 Canadian Armed Forces members, along with two U.S. Navy sea-ice researchers and a 10-member team of divers from Finland, Sweden, France, Norway and Denmark, are now participating in this year’s version of Operation Nanook.

The operation, which Canada’s Department of National Defence has combined with another annual exercise called Operation Nunalivut, got underway on March 17 at two locations in Arctic Canada: Tuktoyaktuk and Resolute Bay.

The exercise, which wraps up on April 1, will also involve staff from the governments of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, federal agencies like Polar Knowledge Canada and Natural Resources Canada, and regional Inuit organizations.

“During the operation, CAF members will also cooperate with the Qikiqtani Inuit Association, the Inuvialuit Regional Corp., and other government departments and agencies to ensure the safety and security of Canada’s North,” a DND backgrounder said.

Since it began in 2007, Operation Nanook has until now been a summer-only whole-of-government exercise, done over a two-week period every August.

It’s usually conducted to help the Canadian Forces work with civilian agencies such as the RCMP and the Coast Guard on practice responses to mock civil emergencies, such as grounded cruise ships and downed aircraft.

But now, Operation Nanook has been combined with Operation Nunalivut and Operation Nunakput to become an umbrella operation covering exercises that will occur at various times throughout the year. The last standalone Operation Nunakput, which was an annual exercise done in the N.W.T., occurred in 2017.

The merger was brought about because of the difficulty of bringing together people from numerous government agencies for a brief period in the middle of each summer, DND says.

“Now, we are not limited to a strict window in August,” Lieutenant-Colonel Luc Frederic Gilbert of the Canadian Joint Operations Command said last summer in an article posted on the DND website.

At the same time, the annual exercise is taking on a more international dimension, with visiting troops from NATO allies like France, Norway and Denmark, as well as non-NATO countries like Sweden and Finland.

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Ranger Jesse Panaktalok and Master-Corporal Frank Pokiak from the 1st Canadian Ranger Patrol Group were working on March 24 with an international dive team from Canada, France, Sweden, Finland and Norway in Tuktoyaktuk. (Photo: Master-Corporal Gabrielle DesRochers, Canadian Forces Combat Camera)

Ten Canadian Armed Forces combat divers, with 10 divers from Finland, Sweden, France, Norway and Denmark, have already arrived in Tuktoyaktuk, where they’re diving beneath the thick ice of the Beaufort Sea with members of the 1st Canadian Ranger patrol group.

At the same time, two members of the U.S. Office of Naval Research joined climate change researchers from the University of Washington for a project that measures sea-ice movements in the Beaufort Sea.

That’s through a scheme called the International Cooperative Engagement Program for Polar Research.

Nearly 300 troops from the Arctic Response Company Group, the Royal Canadian Regiment and other units arrived at Resolute Bay around March 21.

There, they’ve been working with 20 Canadian Rangers on Arctic survival skills and long-range patrols.

And about 30 members of the 440 Transport Squadron have been deployed from Yellowknife to provide logistical support.

Also in Resolute Bay, the Canadian Forces are testing a new gadget called the SmartQAMUTIK mobile sensor. It’s a sled-based device that’s hauled by snowmobile to measure sea-ice thickness along travel routes.

Last summer’s Operation Nanook included naval exercises off the coast of Labrador and Baffin Island.

In February 2020, the Canadian Forces are planning a joint exercise with the U.S. forces in Alaska, DND says.

https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/redesigned-operation-nanook-gets-underway-in-the-canadian-arctic/

by Victor Thu 28 Mar 2019, 2:44 pm

Canadian Armed Forces conducting training in Hamilton
Activities running from March 29-31
NEWS Mar 27, 2019

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https://www.hamiltonnews.com/news-story/9243683-canadian-armed-forces-conducting-training-in-hamilton/

by Jackson Sun 07 Apr 2019, 4:31 pm

60 Seconds with Major Alma Pleasance on Exercise TRIDENT JUNCTURE

Apr 5, 2019 – Major Pleasance answered as many randomly drawn questions as she could in 60 seconds.

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https://ml-fd.caf-fac.ca/en/2019/04/26545

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