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RCAF commander praises 4 Wing
LS Justin Spinello
Commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force Lieutenant-General Al Meinzinger (left) walks with 4 Wing Commander Colonel Dave Moar after arriving in a 408 Tactical Helicopter Squadron CH-146 “Griffon” to 4 Wing Cold Lake for a tour on August 6, 2019. See stories on pages 4, 5.
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Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Commander Lieutenant-General Al Meinzinger (left) and RCAF Chief Warrant Officer (CWO) CWO Denis Gaudreault (right) present an RCAF Commander’s Coin to Corporal Emily Gillis in the 4 Wing Theatre during a visit to 4 Wing Cold Lake on August 7, 2019.
LS Justin Spinello
Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Commander Lieutenant-General Al Meinzinger (left) and RCAF Chief Warrant Officer (CWO) CWO Denis Gaudreault (right) present an RCAF Commander’s Coin to Sergeant Steve Pollard in the 4 Wing Theatre during a visit to 4 Wing Cold Lake on August 7, 2019.
LS Justin Spinello
Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Commander Lieutenant-General Al Meinzinger (left) and RCAF Chief Warrant Officer (CWO) CWO Denis Gaudreault (right) present an RCAF Commander’s Coin to Master Corporal Greg Wojtowicz in the 4 Wing Theatre during a visit to 4 Wing Cold Lake on August 7, 2019.
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4 Wing Cold Lake has claimed Regional Gold in Golf winning the team event in play at Wainwright.
“Our athletes did us proud,” said Josey Yearley, Fitness and Sports Manager 4 Wing Cold Lake.
“The Wainwright PSP Staff did an amazing job-- as hosts and Wainwright Golf Course staff had the course in great shape. The competition was close and we couldn’t have asked for better weather. It’s a shame the course won’t get to be displayed
at the national level,” said Sgt Joel Brooks.
Here are the results for the 2019 Canada West Regional Golf Championships.
Sgt Joel Brooks – Cold LakeMWO Chris Burns - Wainwright
RCAF Commander presents awards at 4 Wing
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Change of Command
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Outgoing Deputy Wing Commander Lieutenant-Colonel Brian Zimmerman(right) receives a gift from his branch from incoming Deputy Wing Commander Lieutenant-Colonel Alain Gagnon (left), during the Deputy Wing Commander Change of Appointment, at the Officers’ Mess on July 19, 2019.
New fighter program takes offPUBLIC SERVICES AND PROCUREMENT CANADA
Gatineau, Quebec - The Government of Canada in July announced the next step in the future fighter aircraft competition.
As part of its defence policy, Strong, Secure, Engaged, the government is acquiring 88 advanced fighter jets to provide the capability the Canadian Armed Forces needs to ensure the safety and security of Canadians and meet its international obligations.
This is the most significant investment in the Royal Canadian Air Force in more than 30 years. With it, the government will deliver the aircraft that meet Canada’s needs, while ensuring good value for Canadians. This investment will support the growth of Canada’s highly skilled workforce in the aerospace and defence industries for decades to come, from coast to coast.
“This project,” said Minister of National Defence Harjit S. Sajjan, “is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to support the growth of Canada’s highly skilled workforce in the aerospace and defence industries. We are confident Canadians will reap the full value of this procurement process through investments, research and development, and good jobs for decades to come.”
Following extensive engagement with industry and eligible suppliers over the past 18 months, the formal Request for Proposals has now been released to eligible suppliers.
The following suppliers have until spring 2020 to submit initial proposals to Canada:
• Sweden—SAAB AB
(publ)—Aeronautics• United Kingdom and
Northern Ireland—Airbus Defense and Space GmbH (with MBDA UK Limited, L3 Technologies MAS and CAE Canada)
• United States—Lockheed Martin Corporation (Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company) (with Pratt and Whitney)
• United States—The Boeing Company (with Peraton Canada Corp., CAE Inc., L3 Technologies MAS Inc., GE Canada and Raytheon Canada Limited Services and Support Division)
Canada will provide two opportunities for all bidders to demonstrate that they can present a plan to meet Canada’s security and interoperability requirements. The security offer is due in fall 2019, and following feedback from Canada, bidders may revise and resubmit that offer as part of the initial proposal in spring 2020.
Bidders will also have an opportunity to address deficiencies in their proposals related to mandatory criteria. Rather than being rejected immediately for not meeting mandatory requirements, bidders will receive feedback from Canada so that they can address non-compliance. This approach has already been used for other large federal procurements and has proven to be successful in maintaining a high level of competition.
All bidders will be subject to the same evaluation criteria, and proposals will be rigorously assessed on elements of technical merit (60%), cost (20%) and economic benefits (20%). This procurement attributes one of the highest weightings to economic
benefits for Canada in its history. All suppliers will be required to provide a plan for economic benefits equal to the value of their proposed contract, with maximum points only being awarded to suppliers who provide contractual guarantees.
This open and transparent competition is being monitored by an independent Fairness Monitor to ensure a level playing field for all potential bidders. The Fairness Monitor’s interim report on the supplier qualification and engagement process found that activities were conducted in a fair manner.
The Fairness Monitor provided the following statement to Public Services and Procurement Canada:
“As the Fairness Monitor for the Future Fighter Capability Project, we have monitored the project throughout the qualification and engagement stage, including the development of the Request for Proposals, and we have identified no fairness deficiencies. It is our opinion that the process has been conducted in a fair manner. Decisions were made objectively and free from personal favouritism or improper influence, and the process encompassed the elements of openness, competitiveness, transparency and compliance.”
The evaluation of proposals, including any revised proposals, is expected to result in a contract award to the selected bidder in early 2022, with the first aircraft delivery starting as early as 2025.
The Government of Canada will continue making progress on this significant project to ensure the safety and security of Canadians over the coming decades.
CLIFF KENYON
A 4 Wing honour guard waited in the bright morning sun August 7 to welcome leaders of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) to a base town hall meeting.
It was part of a two-day visit to the base by L Gen Al Meinzinger, commander of the RCAF, and Chief Warrant Officer Denis Gaudreault. They met honour guard members with 4 Wing Commander Col Dave Moar before the town hall meeting at a packed 4 Wing Theatre.
Meinzinger said he was “delighted” to be at 4 Wing. His tour at 4 Wing included visits with the tactical fighter squadrons and 1 Air Maintenance Squadron as well as 10 Field Technical Training Squadron and 42 Radar Squadron.
Meinzinger, entering 4 Wing Theatre, told Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members waiting in the lobby “our message is a message of thanks” for a job well done.
“This wing is exceptionally busy and is critical,” he said. “When the chips are down this wing steps up and
delivers.”Meinzinger, based in Ottawa, said that federal
government initiatives and policy decisions point to a significant increase in funding the RCAF and numerous capital projects “we must deliver on” in the next 20 years.
At the same time, focusing on CAF members is a top priority.
“Nothing happens without the great people we have on our team. How can we retain more of the team that we have today?”
He said social media efforts to reach CAF members are based in Ottawa and seem successful.
A recent online request for suggestions for names for the new C-295 fixed wing search and rescue aircraft was met with 32,000 submissions.
He said the centralized social media effort seems to be a “great way to touch the broader armed forces.”
Many areas of the CAF are not at staffing levels “we want but we are doing our best and our message is a message of thanks” to members.
Meinzinger took over as commander of the RCAF in May 2018. He enrolled in the CAF in 1985 and in 2011 was deployed to Kandahar, Afghanistan, to command Canada’s Joint Task Force-Afghanistan Air Wing, overseeing the final phase of Air Wing support to combat operations. In July 2013, he took command of Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ont. Upon promotion to major-general in May 2015, he was appointed deputy commander of the RCAF. In March 2017, he was appointed as director of staff, Strategic Joint Staff. He was promoted to his current rank on April 20, 2018.
Gaudreault told members at the town hall meeting that RCAF leaders believe it is critical “we make sure we take care of our people and our families.”
He predicted there will be significant and exciting changes in the CAF and there is a “great willingness to change.”
“The way we are doing things now will be different in the future,” he said. “Where we are taking the armed forces now is very exciting. The future looks
really good and we have the leadership.”Gaudreault talked of the “journey concept” as
it relates to life in the military. He said examples of improvement for military members is the focus on transition centres for those leaving the service, etc. He said RCAF leaders will be examining improvements for military families regarding such challenges as child care and recognition of spousal qualifications during interprovincial moves. Changes under consideration may mean pay increases which do not have to be linked to promotions.
He said there will be challenges to meet the goals of “strong, secure, engaged” and “we have to be ready to go out the door into operations” at any time.”
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LS Justin Spinello
RCAF Commander Lieutenant-General Al Meinzinger answered questions from members of 409 Tactical Fighter Squadron inside of 3 Hangar.
LS Justin Spinello
RCAF Commander Lieutenant-General Al Meinzinger and RCAF Chief Warrant Officer (CWO) CWO Denis Gaudreault answered questions from members of 409 Tactical Fighter Squadron inside of 3 Hangar during a visit to 4 Wing Cold Lake, Alberta on August 7, 2019.
LS Justin Spinello
RCAF Lieutenant-General Al Meinzinger inspects the 4 Wing Honour Guard during a visit to 4 Wing Cold Lake.
RCAF Commander foresees exciting change
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RCAF Commander tackles shortage of aviatorsLIEUTENANT-GENERAL AL MEINZINGER, COMMANDER OF THE ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE
The Royal Canadian Air Force employs a highly technical, highly trained workforce and, of the three Canadian Armed Forces services, RCAF members are the most widely dispersed across our vast nation, often in more remote locations.
Developing these trained and intellectually accomplished, specialized aviators is a significant investment for Canada and our most powerful advantage—now and into the future.
However, as I and others have discussed in the pages of Skies Magazine, Air Forces and the civilian airline industry around the world are facing shortages of skilled personnel arising from an unprecedented growth in the global aviation industry.
The RCAF is not immune to the high demand for pilots, technicians, highly trained aviation specialists and support personnel, and we are facing a shortage of experienced personnel in many fields. We risk losing the priceless depth of experience that our more senior personnel possess and, thus, the ability to mentor, train and transfer knowledge to our newer aviators.
Last autumn, the Auditor General released a report focussing on the recruitment and retention of Fighter
Force technicians and pilots and at that time I outlined steps being taken to address the concerns raised in the report. However, it is clear that these modern realities extend far beyond our fighter community.
Our declining experience levels may impact our ability to train, absorb, and employ personnel in certain areas. Without action, this scenario could further affect the RCAF’s operational output.
This situation is exacerbated by
the very real fact that we “train our own”; we do not hire fully qualified personnel “off the street” and immediately put them to work. Even our members who graduate from civilian aviation training institutes have only begun their life-long learning experience. It takes special training, skills, and qualifications to perform these tasks in a military environment in potentially hazardous areas. The closest we can come to off the street recruiting is if we enrol fully qualified former RCAF members or members of Allied Air Forces—and even then it is quite likely that some level of recertification or refresher training would be required.
Moreover, the loss of experience levels creates a cascading effect that cannot be solved simply by increasing our intake and our training capacity. It takes time to build skills and knowledge. Our experienced members do the work to bring new personnel to operationally effective levels. Therefore, we must nurture an environment whereby the RCAF’s quality of life and the quality of service make it more attractive for our members to stay than to leave.
We are taking concrete actions to tackle the challenges of restoring and retaining our experienced personnel numbers across the board, working closely with departmental partners such as the Vice Chief of the Defence Staff, Chief Military Personnel, the Associate Deputy Minister (Materiel), and Associate Deputy Minister (Human Resources-Civilian).
The situation in the pilot occupation is our most acute. There are no signs of immediate relief in the international pilot shortage, and while we have experienced a pilot shortage over the past few years—although we have no lack of interested applicants and recruits—we have seen an increasing shortage of experienced pilots. Unexpected voluntary attrition of RCAF personnel to the civilian aviation industry has exacerbated the challenges.
Therefore, as directed by the Chief of the Defence Staff under what has been dubbed “Operation Experience”, we will implement initiatives to stabilize and rapidly increase levels of pilot experience across all our fleets. We have already initiated some of our targeted short-term objectives and, in the longer term, we will put in place holistic initiatives across all training
functions and all operational aircraft fleets to ensure we continue to deliver effective air and space power.
These actions are nested within a broader RCAF campaign plan—
“Operation Talent”—which focusses on the quality of life and quality of service of all our Regular and Reserve Force personnel and their families. Operation Talent addresses, in particular, the intake, training, absorption and employment of our aviators.
Although these two directives have been published separately, they address two aspects of a single challenge and the RCAF will implement measures in a seamless, mutually complementary and holistic manner.
The challenge is complex, however, and will require equally complex solutions. Our solutions will address the entire RCAF, not just one occupation, but I recognize that we first need to stabilize our most critical areas. As mentioned, we are already working on several initiatives to alleviate our situation; we will implement some of them quickly but others, I want to be clear, may take up to five to seven years to fully implement.
For instance, we’re already seeing progress on the establishment of a new Air Operations Support Technician occupation (Reserve Force) that will augment force protection capabilities and provide support to aircraft maintenance and search and rescue activities. This will allow our highly qualified Aviation and Search and Rescue Technicians to focus on their primary functions. We will begin accepting applications to this occupation this summer.
Planning is also under way to establish an Air Operations Officer occupation that will provide the RCAF an excitingly new employment field focused on enabling and supporting operations. The stand-up of this new occupation will also result in more aircrew being employed within our squadrons.
Some actions have already been initiated, including:
• Adjusting the policy on the obligatory service tied to certain commitments such as pilot training and international exchanges.
• Increasing the length of first aircrew tours in tactical squadrons to a minimum of four years, beginning with pilots.
• Contracting additional instructors for basic aircrew and Operational Training Unit production, while also exploring the creation of Public Service instructor positions.
In the coming year we will implement further initiatives, including:
• Enabling greater employment flexibility for reservists including how we compensate reservists employed on domestic operations.
• Explore training options with allies; seek methods to better recognize existing qualifications and experience of applicants; and re-enrolling/enrolling military skilled applicants who bring experience.
• Exploring more modern compensation and benefit models based on skillsets, rather than the current model which is based on rank progression, across RCAF occupations.
LS Justin Spinello
RCAF Commander LGen Al Meinzinger chats with troops during a visit to 4 Wing Cold Lake.
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OSS welcomes new commander
MPs make changes
MSS promotion
Avr Brock Curtis, 4 Wing Imaging
4 Operation Support Squadron (4 OSS) outgoing Commanding Officer Lieutenant-Colonel Seane Doell presents a new 4 OSS flag to the incoming Commanding Officer Lieutenant-Colonel Renato Duarte during the 4 OSS Change of Command ceremony on July 15, 2019 at the Officers’ Mess, 4 Wing Cold Lake, Alberta.
Cpl Justin Roy, 4 Wing Imaging
Incoming Master Warrant Officer (MWO) of 1 Military Police Squadron (1 MP Sqn), MWO Dean Boyd, 1 MP Sqn Commanding Officer Major Gabriel Laviolette-Cayouette, and outgoing MWO, MWO Joe Bradshaw sign the Change of Appointment scroll, during the 1 Military Police Squadron Change of Appointment, at the Officer’s Mess, 4 Wing Cold Lake, Alberta, on July 23, 2019.
Avr Kastleen Strome, 4 Wing Imaging
4 Mission Support Squadron (4MSS) Commanding Officer Major Kristen Dubriel (left) and 4 MSS Chief Warrant Officer (CWO) Joel Langley promote Petty Officer Second Class David Spiker to his current rank in the all ranks kitchen on 30 July, 2019 at 4 Wing Cold Lake, Alberta.
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Water balloon Fight (Ages 6-9) August 13, 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm MFRCS Youth Centre
West Edmonton Mall Waterpark Bus Trip (Ages 8-17) $42 + gst
August 16, 6:00 am - 10:00 pm MFRCS
Summer Olympics (Ages 6-9) August 20, 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm MFRCS Youth Centre
Summer Olympics (Ages 10-17) August 21, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm MFRCS Youth Centre
Financial Workshop August 21, 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm MFRCS
*Stress: Take Charge! August 20 - 21, 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Col J.J. Parr Activity Room 1
*Respect in the CAF (Avr-Sgt) August 22, 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Col J.J. Parr Activity Room 1
Community Registration Night (We will be giving out prizes for this including 3 gift baskets valued over $100)
August 22, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Cold Lake Energy Centre
Back to School Locker Mirrors (Ages 6-9) August 22, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm MFRCS Youth Centre
Back to School Locker Mirrors (Ages 10-17) August 24, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm MFRCS Youth Centre
*Respect in the CAF (Avr-Sgt) August 29, 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Col J.J. Parr Activity Room 1
*You can register for these courses by sending an email to [email protected] with your full name, unit (if applicable), supervisor’s approval (if military), SN (if military).
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Adult play structures add to fun of working outTOVAH FENSKE
Are you looking for a great outdoor workout this summer? Check out the adult outdoor play structures.
There are 3 structures located around the base: near the base front gate, at the back side of Col J.J. Parr Sports Centre ( just across from the youth centre parking lot) and up at the recreational camp ground
(top of Martineau hill). These structures make outdoor workouts fun and easy…who doesn’t like monkeying around and getting fit at the same time.
There are several ways you can enjoy these structures:
1. Join the PSP noon hour Fit Mix classes scheduled from 1200-1245 M-F. This class hits the great outdoors often during nice weather with play structure workouts scheduled for August 20th.
2. During unit Physical Training classes.3. Enjoy your own outdoor workout. There are
3 pre-designated workouts posted at each structure, along with instructional “how to” pictures of various exercises. Try your luck at the Chinook, the Globemaster or the Hornet. Each workout is designed to take about 10 minutes for one round, complete multiples for a longer workout or try all three. Should you wish to sign out a TRX suspension training strap (note TRX’s are being used in the photo above and are part of one of the pre-designed workouts) they are available at the Col J.J. Parr Sports Centre welcome desk.
Winters can be cold and long, get out and get active and enjoy not only the summer but fall and spring as well at the playground for adults, sand not included.
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Local artifacts are treasures from the past
Cold-War radar dome finds new home at museum
CLIFF KENYON
Show Jennifer Ross a pile of old stuff, dusty or not, and she’s in her element.
It’s not a surprise that stuff some people may think is junk are treasures to Ross. It’s stuff that may need cleaning. It may be filthy. And Ross knows it will certainly need labelling, cataloging and proper storage.
Ross is curator at Cold Lake Air Force Museum, a position she has enjoyed for eight years.
“It’s a fun job if you are the type of person who enjoys detailed work. I’m really lucky to work here.”
There is a lot more to running a museum than designing and creating appealing and informative displays.
The big job, which can mean “massive amounts of work,” involves the proper cataloguing and archival storage of items.
Many items are donated. Each item must be identified, cleaned and prepared for storage or eventual display.
She admits sometimes she relies on experts from 4 Wing to identify obscure items they may be more familiar with.
“You need to learn about the history of each item.”
Ross studied archeology at Brock University in Ontario.
“We have to take great care with each individual item and the way they are stored.”
An archival room at the museum is full of items that still need to go through the process prior to storage.
“There is so much here. It’s daunting. But there will be a lot of gems in here.”
She estimates that with an assistant it will take five to eight years to catalogue items the museum has received to prepare for storage. To prevent damage, items are stored in a heat and humidity controlled environment.
A new exhibit involves the contribution by the Royal Canadian Air Force to Canadian participation in Afghanistan. Photos are an important part of the exhibit.
“We try to give a point of reference into what people saw in Afghanistan.”
There are actually four museums on the site. Housed in more than 100,000 square feet. They are the Cold Lake Air Force Museum, Oil and Gas Museum, Heritage and Aboriginal Museum.
“I try to look for things now to preserve our history. We have to be protective now.”
The Aboriginal Museum tracks the history Dene,
Cree and Metis who were in the Cold Lake area before Europeans arrived.
The oil and gas interpretive centre tells the stories of technology developed specifically for the Cold Lake area.
The buildings at the site all used to be part of 42 Radar Squadron during the cold war era. The radar squadron operated at the site from 1954 to 1992. The radar portion of the museum features a Cold War era General Electric Height Radar Finder which dominates the room.
The answer to the Soviet Cold War threat was construction of a line of radar stations across Canada to provide warning of an impending attack. This defence strategy first took shape in 1954 with construction of the Pine Tree Line of radar stations across Canada.
Construction of 42 Radar station in Cold Lake was completed in 1954. As well as performing a monitoring function it was a training site for pilots and operators in simulated military offensives. By the late 1980s the buildings were old and equipment antiquated and radar operations were moved to 4 Wing.
Displayed outdoors are a CF-5 Freedom Fighter, CT-133 Silver Star, the CT-114 Tutor and the CT-134 Musketeer.
CLIFF KENYON
It’s finally home.Local leaders on August 8 officially
opened “the dome” at the Cold Lake Museums after a lengthy project to save this large and visible reminder of the past.
It’s the aluminum and fibreglass dome which houses a cold-war era radar dish which was part of the Pine Tree Line of early warning radar sites which once stretched across Canada.
The radar installation was at 4 Wing Cold Lake and was operational from the 1950s to the 1990s. There were three domes at the base protecting radar equipment. The domes were dismantled when the equipment was decommissioned and no plans were made for use of the dome structures.
Major Kael Rennie was instrumental in efforts to rescue one of the domes to move to the museum.
“We needed a dome for the skyline.”It is an impressive reminder of
the past and the history of Cold Lake region.
Key to moving the dome from 4 Wing to the Cold Lake Air Force Museum was Alan Duncan of Canadian Space Services Ltd., based in Ontario. His company as been involved in erecting, maintaining and moving domes for more than 30 years.
The dome at the museum is 42 feet across.
“It is a specialized kind of work,” Duncan says. “We will be back to maintain it.”
The geodesic dome consists of an aluminum frame and triangular shaped panels which make up the covering. The panels are made of aluminum and fibreglass which don’t interfere with radar signals. To be moved, the frame and panels must be disassembled then reassembled with the structure mounted and connected to a specially designed concrete slab.
Duncan says he expects the structure, similar to those used throughout the world and in such demanding climates as the Arctic, will withstand winds of up to 170 miles and hour.
Cliff Kenyon
4 Wing Commander Col Dave Moar gives visitors a tour inside radar dome at Cold Lake Air Force Museum.
Cliff Kenyon
Cold Lake Mayor Craig Copeland (left) helps cut the ribbon to officially open the dome at Cold Lake Air Force Museum. He is with 4 Wing Commander Col Dave Moar, Major Kael Rennie and museum curator Jennifer Ross.
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419 Tactical Fighter Squadron marks change of command
10 new RCAF pilots proud to receive their wings LIEUTENANT CAMILLE MACKENZIE DOLPHIN
On Friday, July 26, 2019, ten Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) pilots successfully completed the third phase of their pilot course at 3 Canadian Forces Flying Training school in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, and were given their official pilot wings.
The ten new military pilots demonstrated the exceptional ability during their time learning to fly RCAF aircraft. Candidates receive their wings when they graduate the third phase of their pilot training regardless of the airframe they are selected to fly.
“I am very excited and proud of myself, I still can’t quite wrap my head around the fact that it is happening. I have been waiting for this moment for a very long time and had the support of my family during my training, who have come from Montreal to see me graduate, so today is their day,” said Lieutenant Stefan Bobes.
The day they receive their pilot wings is always a very significant milestone for pilots in the RCAF, because getting that winged recognition required hard work and dedication. Each candidate had to spend hundreds of hours in ground
school, in the flight simulator and in their selected airframes.
For all of the graduating pilots, this milestone is not the end as they will have to continue studying and training to learn how to fly their selected airframes. Among the ten members who graduated the course, four members were from the multi-
engine course and six from the rotary-wing course.
They will now all be posted to squadrons across the RCAF and, once there, will spend time at their respective communities’ operational training units. To name a few, Lieutenant Rachel Wilt will be posted to 440 Squadron in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, to
fly the CC-138 Twin Otter multi-engine aircraft, Lieutenant Zakary Kolkowski from Thunder Bay, Ontario, will be posted to 8 Wing Trenton, Ontario, to fly the CC-130 Hercules multi-engine aircraft, and Lieutenant Sarbjeet Nijher will be posted to 439 Squadron at 3 Wing Bagotville, Quebec, to fly the CH-146 Griffon helicopter.
The commander of 2 Canadian Air Division, Brigadier-General Mario Leblanc, was the reviewing officer for the graduation ceremony and presented the military pilots with their wings in front of their proud families and friends.
“Graduates, I would like to offer you a very warm congratulations! Today is the day you officially receive your pilot wings; it is also a day where you can take a moment to honour all of the tenacity and courage it took to bring you to this moment,” Brigadier-General Leblanc told the graduates.
“It truly is satisfying to be done with this part of my training, but when you get to this point you realize there is still a long way to go,” said Lieutenant John Rustad, the top graduate of the rotary-wing course, who will continue his studies at Seneca College before being posted to a squadron.
Corporal Angela Gore
Graduates of the multi-engine course, along with school personnel, Honorary Colonel Andy Fletcher (kneeling left) and Brigadier-General Mario Leblanc (left), gather for a photo after being presented with their pilot wings.
LS Justin Spinello
Outgoing 419 Tactical Fighter Training Squadron (Tac F (T) Sqn) Commanding Officer Lieutenant-Colonel (LCol) Colin Marks (right) presents incoming 419 Tac F (T) Sqn Commanding Officer LCol Martin Roesler-yue with the 419 Tac F (T) Sqn quilt during the 419 Tac F (T) Sqn Change of Command ceremony outside 10 Hangar on July 26, 2019 at 4 Wing Cold Lake, Alberta
LS Justin Spinello
Incoming 419 Tactical Fighter (Training) Squadron (Tac F (T) Sqn) Commanding Officer Lieutenant-Colonel (LCol) Martin Roesler-Yue, 4 Wing Commander Colonel Dave Moar, and outgoing 419 Tac F (T) Sqn Commanding Officer LCol Colin Marks sign the change of command certificates during the 419 Tac F (T) Sqn Change of Command ceremony outside 10 Hangar on July 26, 2019 at 4 Wing Cold Lake, Alberta.
LS Justin Spinello
Outgoing 419 Tactical Fighter Training Squadron (Tac F (T) Sqn) Commanding Officer Lieutenant-Colonel Colin Marks departs in a Royal Canadian Air Force CF-188 Hornet during the 419 (Tac F (T) Sqn) Change of Command ceremony outside 10 Hangar on July 26, 2019 at 4 Wing Cold Lake, Alberta
LS Justin Spinello
4 Wing Commander Colonel Dave Moar inspects the parade with outgoing 419 Tactical Fighter Training Squadron (Tac F (T) Sqn) Commanding Officer Lieutenant-Colonel Colin Marks during the 419 Tac F (T) Sqn Change of Command ceremony outside 10 Hangar on July 26, 2019 at 4 Wing Cold Lake, Alberta.
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409 Tactical Fighter Squadron marks change of command
LS Erica Seymour, 4 Wing Imaging
Lieutenant-Colonel (LCol) Mark Hickey (right), incoming 409 TFS CO, LCol Colin Marks (left), and 4 Wing Commander, Colonel David Moar sign the official Change of Command certificates during the 409 TFS Change of Command ceremony outside 3 Hangar on July 24, 2019 at 4 Wing, Cold Lake, Alberta.
LS Erica Seymour, 4 Wing Imaging
Incoming 409 Tactical Fighter Squadron (TFS) Commanding Officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Colin Marks leads his troops for the first time as they march past the dais during the 409 TFS Change of Command ceremony outside 3 Hangar on July 24, 2019 at 4 Wing, Cold Lake, Alberta.
