National Defence

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    Low • Fast • Dark: Canada’s Special Ops Aviators

    November 14, 2009 by Adam Day
    A 427 pilot hovers his Griffon as members of the Special Operations Regiment fast-rope out. PHOTO: ADAM DAY The single point of failure. This short phrase hides an idea powerful enough to make a special operations aviator professionally uncomfortable. The phrase makes them tense. It...
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    Beyond Top Secret: Undercover With Canadian Special Operations Forces In Jamaica

    July 3, 2009 by Adam Day
    A CSOR member oversees pistol shooting on the range. PHOTO: ADAM DAY They don’t much like the James Bond characterization, these undercover Canadian soldiers. In fact, they reject it. But then you kind of expect that they would. If they were the kind of people...
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    Assignment Afghanistan: Haji Beach

    November 2, 2008 by Adam Day
    Tense moments during a village-clearing patrol south of Haji Beach. PHOTO: ADAM DAY What follows are brief snapshots from a week in the life of one small Canadian outpost in Afghanistan—Haji Beach—in April 2008. It is a story of roads closed and being built, of...