Newsletters - Volume 49

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Farewell Message from BGen Pep Fraser

Members of the Communications & Electronics Branch, it has been my privilege and pleasure to serve as your Colonel ... Read More

Branch Advisor’s Message

It is my pleasure as the C and E Branch Advisor to announce that Colonel George Lackonick has assumed the appointment of Colonel Commandant ... Read More

C & E Branch CWO

Today is my last day of work in 2006. By the time our newsletter is published and you read this article you will already be fully engaged with the new challenges 2007 ... Read More

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The Lone Piper

It is not often enough that Canadians wave our flag or demonstrate our pride in public. Sure we’re always ready to defend our hockey team to the last man standing and ... Read More

The Signals Corps at the Technological Crossroad

The needs for communications for military purposes have always existed. From the Signal runner at the battle of Marathon to today’s ... Read More

One Army

Recently appointed Commanding Officer of 731 Signal Squadron I was surprised, having not been posted to an army unit in several years, at the current state of the unit’s ... Read More

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Blue Positional Awareness Over the AN/PRC 117

Due to the great distances covered by Canadian Forces in RC(S), the AN/PRC 117 TACSAT radio is an invaluable communications resource ... Read More

Training Requirements

The history of the Signal Corp was founded under fire during the world wars. Today it seems that for the most part, that portion of the Signal’s history has ... Read More

ATESS CCISF Technicians Face New Challenges

When the time came for the next phase of the Military Automated Air Traffic System (MAATS) rollout, technicians from ATESS Trenton took ... Read More

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Col Vertefeuille CJ-9 (Civil-Military Operations) Combined Force Command

On Friday, January 14, 2005, I was home getting ready to spend the day fishing, trying to catch my supper ... Read More

Reflections of a Regimental Signal Officer

Have a look at any soldier’s movie collection, and I can almost guarantee that it will contain a few war film titles. Indeed, Hollywood ... Read More

The Brigade HQ in Current CF Operations

The Signals community often finds itself desperately trying to keep up with the influx of new technology into the Canadian Forces’ collective ... Read More

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Farewell

It has been a long trek since the soldiers of 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group Headquarters and Signal Squadron have arrived in Afghanistan and their accomplishments are ... Read More

If Only Bruce Was Here...

As the Joint task Force Afghanistan J6 (JTF-AFG), I knew my adventure in this theater of operations was going to be an exciting but also very demanding time, ... Read More

Signals Support to Task Force Afghanistan

With Task Force Afghanistan (TFA) almost midway into its second full rotation, J6 TFA would like to provide an update to the Branch on the ... Read More

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Operational Employment of Signal Personnel and Equipment

The current deployment to Afghanistan by 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group Headquarters and Signal Squadron ... Read More