Branch Retirement Messages

RETIREMENT - Master Corporal Nigel Rose CFSCE 00109

1. AFTER 27 YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO THE CANADIAN FORCES AND THE COMMUNICATION AND ELECTRONICS BRANCH, MCPL NIGEL ROSE WILL BE RETIRING ON 4 AUG 2009. MCPL ROSE HAS HAD A COMMENDABLE CAREER, FROM HIS FIRST DAYS IN CORNWALLIS THROUGH ENDLESS DAYS AS COURSE DIRECTOR AT CFSCE. MCPL ROSE BEGAN HIS CAREER IN JUNE 1982 AFTER ENROLLING IN CALGARY, AB. HIS FIRST POSTING WAS AT CFB PETAWAWA WITH 2 CMBG HQ & SIGS SQN, OTTAWA WITH 764 COMM SQN & 76 COMMGP HQ, CFB KINGSTON WITH 79 COMM REG & FOLLOWED HALIFAX WITH CFNOS HALIFAX. HIS FINAL POSTING WAS TO CFSCE IN 2005 AS AN ATIS WITH SUPPORT SQN. MCPL ROSE ALSO SERVED IN PRIMOSTEN, CROATIA (1994) & TWO TIME AT VELIKA KLADUSA,BOSNIA AS PART OF CCIBH NTNL COMD ELEM (1998-1999) & TFBH INF BAT GP (2000-2001).

2. NIGEL, HIS WIFE NORMA AND THEIR TWO DAUGHTERS MELANIE, SARAH & SON LUCAS WILL REMAIN IN THE KINGSTON AREA AND THE ELDEST SON HAD GRADUATED ST-JEAN THIS PAST APRIL.