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Ceremonial Guard drill team at the Embassy of Canada in Washington, DC.

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:46:46 -0400

Resplendent in their scarlet jackets and bearskin headdress, the CF Ceremonial Guard drill team marched into the courtyard of the Embassy of Canada in Washington, DC in two separate lines astounded bystanders with their rifle drill as they wove in and out, wheeling and about-turning, breaking off into small groups and reforming rank.

It was dubbed Canada’s Mission Impossible.

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:07:57 -0400

In January 2008, the Government of Canada commissioned an “Independent Panel on Canada’s Future Role in Afghanistan.” This report recommended that Canada’s mission in Afghanistan be extended past 2009, providing certain conditions were met. One of these was that Canada acquire a new medium lift capability by February 2009.

Canadians train Afghan sappers

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:25:45 -0500

CAMP HERO, Afghanistan - The military engineers of 1 Brigade, 205 Corps, Afghan National Army (ANA), have completed an important program of training.

Walking tall in Afghanistan

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:20:27 -0500

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - If Zharey District in Kandahar Province is the Wild West of Afghanistan — and it often looks like it — then the men of the Afghan Uniformed Police (AUP) are the often outnumbered and outgunned, and always under-appreciated, frontier lawmen.