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0 ILLUSTRATION: STEWART SHERWOOD As I approach my eighth decade, I think of him as my Sergeant Pilot. I know he neither is nor was any more mine than the moon or stars, yet there is something so profoundly personal in the fact that he wished...
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0 PHOTO: YVES BEAULIEU PHOTOGRAPHE INC. A mobile casse-croûte finds a temporary home during a festival at St-Tite, Que. With his tanned complexion, his business casual attire and the fine gold chains hanging loosely around his neck, Peter Scapeti has the look of a man who...
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0 Of all the interesting, dramatic, exciting, aspects of defence policy and military operations, none is more dull than procurement. The very word seems to induce boredom. Military historians and defence policy analysts are well aware of the somnolent qualities of procurement study. In any well-stocked...
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0 PHOTO: TOM MacGREGOR Governor General Adrienne Clarkson during an emotional ceremony on Parliament Hill. Canada’s Chief of Defence Staff, General Rick Hillier, told an emotional Governor General Adrienne Clarkson that she would always be a member of “the Canadian Forces band of brothers.” It was...
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0 PHOTO: METROPOLIS STUDIO Chief of Defence Staff General Rick Hillier has seen the enemy and he knows it’s going to be a real battle. It has been said that the art of command consists largely of the ability to anticipate. While failing leaders focus on...
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2 ILLUSTRATIONS: SHARIF TARABAY Clockwise from top left: Victoria Cross recipients Claude Nunney, William Metcalf, Arthur Knight, John Young, Walter Rayfield, Bellenden Hutcheson and Cyrus Wesley Peck. Sept. 2, 1918, stands out as a red-letter day for Canada and the Victoria Cross. On that date, seven...
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