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Slip, sliding away…
CLIFF KENYON
What does it take to be a winning pod racer?
How about a driver with nerves of steel, a dedicated pit crew and a cutting edge design team?
Nope. You don’t need any of those.
What you need is a group of Canadian Armed Forces members who understand that camaraderie and having some fun are essential parts of the job. Oh, and some cardboard boxes and duct tape.
An acceptable pod race vehicle, it seems, is just about anything you can make out of a cardboard box to slide down a snow covered hill on a beautiful Cold Lake afternoon.
Also, you can add some embellishments to make your ride impress.
Hundreds of spectators turned out Friday at Martineau hill for what some claimed was the second annual 4 Wing pod race. There was one last year and it may happen every year, weather and ambitions permitting.
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Participants huff and puff for a good start as racing homemade cardboard pods was the order of the day Feb. 28 on the Marineau hill at 4 Wing.
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The theme this year was Star Wars, with racers fitted out with intergalactic accessories such as engines which were really cardboard tubes.
Spectators viewed the vehicles at the start line on a warm, sunny winter day. They pointed out flaws and marvelled at the creativity of the designs.
Among them was 4 Wing Commander Colonel Dave Moar. Impressed by the vehicles, although they were merely decorated cardboard boxes, he took his own photos of the fun.
One had handle bars, which turned out to be quite useless. One of the racers had a plastic windshield, which was an interesting addition but perhaps as useless as the handlebars? I guess wishful thinking was also part the fun. One had what looked to be engines along the side, circular like a jet. Again, quite useless, especially because they fell off after the first run and had to be taped on again. That seems to be one of the rules of pod racing. If something falls off your racer you are allowed to tape it back on again between heats.
The races began, with team members shoving the racers at the stop of the hill, with drivers hoping to make it to the base of the hill and across the finish line.
Some, probably of inferior design, made it only part way down the hill.
“They have no control. It’s because of the jet wash,” a spectator speculated.
There was talk that in later heats the smallest of the vehicles may be the fastest, leaving the larger
creations in their wake. Wrong. If you are wondering for future years, the bigger pod racers were the fastest, making it across the finish line and some even over the snow covered berm at the bottom.
And to make it more challenging, the driver is to get to the bottom of the hill holding a cup of chocolate milk. Perhaps that makes it easier to tell who crashed on their way down? The racers climbing back to the top of the hill covered in chocolate milk clearly had some driving issues.
And the winner was, out of about six racers that finished down the hill most the time, 1 Air Maintenance Squadron.
But it seemed everyone who took part and the spectators were all winners. At the end, they talked about which designs worked best, questioned whether the warm temperatures help. And what about the snow?
There were no losers. There were smiles, laughter and comradery. Perhaps the most important part of the competition.
Oh, and you can use the cardboard boxes over again.
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In celebration of the Royal Canadian Logistic Service’s (RCLS) 52nd birthday, logisticians across the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) were given the challenge to construct a commemorative cake of their own design. The theme chosen for the challenge was Op Faust and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Holland. 4 Wing Cold Lake and its team successfully built their submission and won the competition with an impressive 97/100 points scored.
In the weeks leading up to the birthday, the team from 4 Wing, Master Corporal (MCpl) Jill Kielo, Corporal (Cpl) Karl Vitovec, Aviator (Avr) Taylor Thomas, Second Lieutenant (2Lt) Duncan Campbell, and Cassandra Clouter, built the 100lb cake. With the cake being required to be completely edible, the team had to utilize all of their combined skills to design and construct the cake and its decorations. This included countless hours of hand painting, sculpting, and baking.
The theme of Op Faust inspired the team to construct
a crate spilling with goods to resupply the people of Holland. The crate was topped with a re-creation of the cenotaph located at Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery, Netherlands. Canadian Logisticians worked tirelessly to transport food, coal and supplies
across German lines to reach those in need. The design was used to commemorate the Canadians that fought to feed and clothe the people of Holland, while remembering the more than 7,600 Canadians that died to accomplish this mission.
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(Left to Right) Cassandra Clouter, Avr. Taylor Thomas, 2Lt Duncan Campbell, MCpl Jillian Kielo, Cpl Karl Vitovec (Absent). The 4 Wing team pose behind their winning submission for the RCLS Birthday Cake Competition.
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10 FTTS pod pit crew dressed the part for the competition.
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A racer is ready to go in a cardboard creation.
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CANEX adding servicesCLIFF KENYON
CANEX at 4 Wing is on the move offering services which will make life more convenient.
A hair salon will be opening in space left vacant about eight months ago.
Cold Lake hair salon Crew Haus Barbers and Stylists will be adding a CANEX location in May following renovations in vacant space that used to be occupied by a barber shop.
“They are excited about opening here,” said 4 Wing CANEX manager Sheri Klein.
Also, Bank of Montreal (BMO) will be adding an automated banking machine that will be available 24-7 at CANEX.
“They are putting an ATM here to help members who use banking services that are set up for them,” said Klein.
Canadian Forces Morale & Welfare Services (CFMWS) recently secured a new 10-year agreement with BMO to be the provider of banking products for the defence community through the Canadian Defence Community Banking Program.
The program offers banking benefits and savings to CFOne members including employees and Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members.
The program offers: a free basic bank account (valued at $19 monthly), BMO employee pricing on mortgages (saving about one per cent) and one per cent off lines of credit. BMO also offers employee pricing on debt consolidation loans, post secondary education loans and identify theft protection.
BMO will also be offering enhanced services to members who are deployed, disabled or relocating.
As part of the program, CFMWS has secured a guaranteed financial benefit of $250,000 per year for the next three years.
Klein said 4 Wing CANEX is also adding a delivery
service throughout the base for purchases including appliances.
CANEX is also involved in a campaign to get feedback from shoppers.
“We try to have the right products and the right assortment for people on the base,” she said. “We will try to get anything that people want.”
Members can go online to provide feedback and suggest products they would like in the store.
“We would like to hear from everyone on the base. It’s great for people to have a voice and if you fill out our survey you get a $10 coupon for savings on your next $50 purchase.”
CANEX is a part of CFMWS and a portion of their sales goes back to support local programs and subsidies offered through 4 Wing Base Fund.
Klein said some shoppers find opportunities limited in Cold Lake. For that reason, she said she is eager to search for any item a shopper is seeking.
“We have a lot of suppliers and we are happy to research any item for you to see if we can get it in for you. Come in and talk to us and we will try to find a solution for you.”
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CLIFF KENYON
One of the biggest and scariest enemies we face, personally and as a military operation, is THEM.
Often, we don’t even know who THEY are.
We can’t see THEM. But THEY are there. THEY may be lurking in the shadows perhaps watching and waiting for you to slip up, to do something careless.
THEY are cyber criminals on the hunt for information that to them may be as valuable as gold. And THEY are EVERYWHERE.
THEY hunt for passwords to gain access to your private information or perhaps your bank account or credit cards. Or perhaps THEY want to steal information on a computer and hold it for ransom.
But you can minimize the personal danger and the threat, just like a major corporation or the Government of Canada (GoC).
“Your password may be the most important thing when it comes to protecting yourself,” says Chloé Plamondon, 4 Wing Information System Security Officer (ISSO), of 4 Operations Support Squadron Telecom mu nic at ions Flight, who is charged with 4 Wing cyber security.
Don’t feel alone if you are concerned about
the cyber threat. Major corporations such as Adobe, Ancestry, Bell Canada and beauty store Sephora have been subject to cyber attacks.
“It’s a serious threat,” said Maj Kristjan Hjalmarson, Officer Commanding Communications and Information Systems Flight. That’s why the unit regularly issues advisories to warn CAF members and base employees about safe cyber practices.
Ms. Plamondon said to protect yourself your password doesn’t have to be complex or trickly, but the longer the better.
Many people stick on one password that is easy for them to remember and their other passwords they use are a derivation of the first one.
“It’s very important to use different passwords for everything you use,” said Plamandon.
For her bank account, she uses a password which contains 64 letters. It has nothing to do with anything memorable such as a birthdate, her pets or favorite relative. The reason is simple, hackers using specific applications can break short passwords within minutes or seconds using search software. Longer passwords, such as her 64 letter creation, could take years to crack.
And don’t save passwords on your computer. Write your passwords in a book and
lock it up.Hackers usually fall
into four categories ISSO is on watch for. There are the Script Kitties, unskilled computer hackers who know enough to cause trouble. There are the Black Hatters, the experts who are engaged in criminal acts, sometimes with malware bought and sold on the dark web. There are independent state sponsored hacker groups and at the top of a dangerous heap are Advanced Persistent Threats that receive help from an established nation state.
Another concern is piracy. A 2008 survey in the U.S. revealed that as much as 25 per cent of content on personal computers had been unauthorized downloads such as books or movies.
“Just don’t do it. There is a huge risk in this activity. About one in three pirated items contain malware,” she said.
Malware can hide on your personal computer and do such things as steal your credit card numbers, your other personal data or use your computer in the background for other criminal activities.
“It may only use about 10 per cent of your computer’s capacity so it’s not very noticeable. But if your computer is unexpectedly slowing down, it may be malware working unseen,” said Ms. Plamandon.
Chloé Plamondon, a graduate of computer systems technology, at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, became interested in learning about cyber crime as she learned more about computer programming.
Fighting cyber crime is a global battle with no victory in view.
The data you lose on your home computer or your laptop due to a virus may be expensive or impossible to restore.
Ms. Plamondon suggests that for irreplaceable data on your personal computer make a copy on an external hard drive (which is not left connected to the computer) or a blue ray disc.
Anti-virus software, although helpful, is not foolproof and may not prevent attacks by the newest viruses.
“Technology moves quickly. People don’t
move that quickly and they are quite unaware of the threat.”
She hopes if people follow safe practices at home they will continue those habits at work. And she is quick to remind 4 Wing employees and Canadian Armed Forces members to be aware of the cyber threat.
One rule is to never use a memory stick on a computer at home then bring it to work. That is a Department of National Defence policy “but people often don’t think twice about it.”
Memory sticks can also be infected with dangerous malware.
Ms. Plamondon admits it seems to be a never ending battle combatting cyber crime because there are hackers who constantly find new ways to invade and infect computer systems.
The goal of viruses and malware isn’t just to annoy you. Some hackers
enjoy the battle for notoriety or profit.
“It’s all about making money. There are a lot of bad people out there and they are all after something. It’s a very big business.”
Awareness, she said, is the first and most important line of defence. You don’t have to be a computer expert or programmer to protect yourself. Just use common sense.
“Your brain may be the best line of defence. Think before you do anything.”
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William Frank Smith, aged 72 years of Moose Jaw, SK passed away peacefully on Saturday, February 22, 2020 at Pioneers Lodge in Moose Jaw, SK.
Frank retired as a Master Warrant Officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force at Moose Jaw, SK. His postings were CFB Portage la Prairie, MB, CFB Cold Lake, AB and CFB Moose Jaw, SK.
Frank was a wood craftsman, building things like wooden banks, beds and stair railings, etc. He enjoyed many leisure hours of fishing. Frank loved to barbecue,
even in the dead of winter. Mowing his yard was something he took pride in and after, would sit watching the whirligigs
He was predeceased by his parents, Sam and Margaret Smith. Frank is survived by his wife of 48 years, Joanne; son, Richard (Angie) Smith; grandchildren: Nathan, Camryn, and Reid; and son, Aaron (Corie) Smith. Frank will be missed and lovingly remembered by his two sisters, Elaine (Butch) and Lee (Andy); as well as sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law, and many nieces and nephews.
A special thanks to the staff at Pioneers
Lodge for the care provided to Frank. In keeping with Frank’s wishes, a Private Family Service was to be held.
Donations in Frank’s name may be made to The Moose Jaw Humane Society.
Retired MWO Smith dies peacefully at age 72
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Chloé Plamondon (4 Wing ISSO), of 4 Operations Support Squadron Telecommunications Flight, is on guard against cyber crime.
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Honorary Colonel of 4 Wing’s 417 Combat Support (CS) Squadron Kendra Kincade will be the guest speaker kicking off International Women’s Day celebrations at the base on March 9.
Celebrations begin at 9 a.m. with Kincade speaking at Club 41. Youth, boys and girls from 12 to 18 years of age, have been invited to take part. The purpose of the events is to celebrate the contribution by women and highlight opportunities in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF).
Youth have been asked to enrol in advance to be able to shadow a CAF member for the day and learn more about available occupations. They were invited to pick areas such as: pilot, air traffic controller, imagery technicians, cooks, air weapons systems technician, medical and dental technicians and transport technicians.
Weather permitting, helicopter rides will be offered to visitors.
“It should turn out to be a great day,” said 417 (CS) Squadron Commanding Officer Major Alexia Hannam, helping organize events for the day. “Honorary Colonel Kincade is a great speaker and has overcome a lot of challenges to be where she is today.”
Honorary Colonel Kincade, an air traffic controller, is founder and board chairman of Elevate Aviation, a venture dedicated to uniting and empowering women in aviation. She is passionate about providing opportunities for women of all ages to attain knowledge and training in all its related professions.
Maj Hannam said women in aviation still face some barriers “but it has been changing in leaps and bounds” in the last 10 years and events such as celebrating International Women’s Day at 4 Wing helps show youth opportunities available.
“I have been in the military 20
years and a lot has changed,” said Maj Hannam.
While International Women’s Day encourages women, both boys and girls are invited to take part in 4 Wing events, said Maj Hannam, because the priority is equality, which isn’t possible if you eliminate boys from participating.
Women have been serving in Canada’s military for more than a century and today play a pivotal role in defending Canada’s safety and security.
Canada is a world leader in terms of the proportion of women in its military, and the areas in which they can serve. Currently, 15.9 per cent of CAF members are women—the NATO average for women in the military is 11 per cent. Among our allies, the CAF is regarded as being at the forefront of opportunities for women to serve their nation’s armed forces.
Women are essential to achieving operational effectiveness and new strategies and initiatives are expected to increase women’s representation to 25.1 per cent by 2026. For non-combat arms occupations, women representation is already at 21 per cent.
Over the past five years, the CAF has made significant progress in the number and proportion of women recruited:
• Enrolment of women in the Reserve Force has increased by 103 per
cent since 2015• Enrolment of women in the
Regular Force has increased by 63 per cent since 2015
• Women make up 25 per cent of new Royal Military College recruits
• 41 per cent of recruiting growth is new women members
• Women represented 17.4 per cent of the total recruitment in 2019
The CAF offers 106 full-time and part-time occupations. In 2001, Canada became one of the first militaries in the world to welcome women to enroll in any and all CAF occupations, including operational trades and serve in any environment. Women have chosen to serve in 98 per cent of the occupations and are currently enrolled in 104 occupations out of 106 in the CAF.
In all trades, CAF members, no matter the gender, are selected for training, promotions, postings, and all career opportunities in exactly the same way – based on rank, qualifications, and merit.
The representation of women inside our entire Defence Team should also be highlighted. As of March 31, 2019, the Department of National Defence (DND) had 9,704 women in their workforce, with 77 in executive positions. In total, women make up 40.3 per cent of DND’s workforce and 42.8 per cent of executive positions.
4 Wing celebrates International Women’s Day
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Padre Andrew Whitman
CHAPLAIN’S CORNER
It’s the stay puft marshmallow man
I may be dating myself, but Ghostbusters was one of my favourite movies as a kid in the 80s. To me, it was an epic battle between good and evil, on par with
Star Wars or (now) Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter. Peter Venkman was my hero. I distinctly remember
getting a Peter Venkman action figure for Christmas one year and being so excited. Then our pitbull, who never chewed anything but table scraps and T-bones, decided this one time to destroy my favourite toy ever. I am not ashamed to tell you that I wept that night. So, it wasn’t until I watched the movie again as an adult that I realized that Bill Murray is not exactly an action hero.
Nevertheless, I have always found the climax of the movie to be rather profound. You may recall that as our heroes are standing on the top of a tall building in Manhattan, facing off against Gozer, the Destructor, suddenly they hear the “hoomp, whoomp” of a skyscraper-sized monster come to destroy them. What is it??? It’s…Ray Stantz: “It’s the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.”
How did it come to this? Well, Gozer told them to “choose the form of the Destructor.” And our hero,
Peter, figures it out: whatever the Ghostbusters think of (Gozer can read their minds) will become the destructor. Peter tells them to empty their minds, but it is too late.
Ray Stantz: “I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood, something that could never, ever possibly destroy us: Mr. Stay-Puft.”
Peter Venkman: “Nice thinkin’, Ray.”Ray Stantz: “We used to roast Stay Puft
Marshmallows, on the fire at Camp Waconda.”It strikes me that the things that destroy us – the
“form of the Destructor” – are often the innocent things that we love and cherish. They are the things that we think could never, ever, possibly destroy us.
Take, for example, personal freedom. Freedom is a good thing that we all strive for and desire. But when that freedom swells to monstrous proportions, then it will need to stomp on our sense of responsibility, topple commitment, crush duty. It will ruin relationships.
Ultimately, I cannot have perfect freedom from obligation unless I take another person’s freedom. I
cannot be free to go fishing unless my spouse/partner is bound to take care of the children, or unless they are all bound to come fishing with me.
My children’s freedom to play video games all day makes it impossible for me to have the kind of family activities and family meals I wish for. And if you are in a relationship, you cannot be free to love whomever you want without taking away from your partner’s freedom to be loved and secure in a committed relationship.
Freedom can become a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. So can many other things. Whole societies have been destroyed and empires have crumbled by allowing innocent ideals to become abominable monstrosities.
Where does that leave us? All things in moderation? Perhaps. But if we find ourselves in a position where our marshmallow man has grown out of proportion and is taking over, we might need a hero – one even more epic than Peter Venkman if that were possible – to destroy the destructor and put things back in their proper place.
Joint Task Force testing northern skillsNATIONAL DEFENCE/ CANADIAN ARMED FORCES
About 350 Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) Regular and Reserve personnel have deployed to Resolute Bay and Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, on Operation Nanook-Nunalivut 2020 (Op Na-Nu 20). Royal Canadian Air Force 440 (Transport) Squadron is participating in the operation.
From February 24 to March 27, 2020, CAF personnel and international partners are working together to enhance and test their specialized Arctic skill sets and reaffirm their ability to operate in the High Arctic.
All activities and phases of Op NA-NU 20 are planned and commanded by Joint Task Force (North) on behalf of Canadian Joint Operations Command, and executed by the Task Force Nunalivut headquarters element, based in Resolute Bay and Rankin Inlet, Nunavut.
“Each year, Operation NANOOK-NUNALIVUT provides us with a renewed focus on our operational capabilities and effectiveness in the High Arctic,” said Brigadier-General Patrick Carpentier, Commander, Joint Task Force (North). “The North is a vast, harsh and unique place to operate and, because of this, careful preparations and close collaboration with our northern partners is key. Sharing knowledge with our partners and allies will allow us to be better able to adapt to new demands and challenges in the North, and address common northern defence, security and safety concerns in the High Arctic.”
Canadian participation in the operation includes personnel from 440 (Transport) Squadron (Trenton, Ontario); 12e Régiment blindé du Canada (Valcartier, Québec); 1st Canadian Ranger Patrol Group members (various patrols in the North); Arctic Response Company Group (primary reserve units under 35 Canadian Brigade Group from la Ville
de Québec); Canadian Army Combat Divers from across the country; Royal Canadian Navy Fleet Diving Unit Atlantic divers (Halifax, Nova Scotia); and members of the Joint Task Force (North) Support Component.
International participation includes personnel from the United States 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, and 12 divers from Belgium, Finland and France.
From ground and underwater activities through complex logistical support to building and maintaining austere landing strips, Op Na-Nu 20 both demonstrates the presence
and capabilities of the CAF in the Arctic, and improves our readiness to operate in the region, key components of Canada’s Defence Policy – Strong, Secure, Engaged. Operations such as Op NA-NU 20 also enhance Canada’s ability to work effectively with northern partners and Allies.
All activities and phases of Op Na-Nu 20 are planned and commanded by Joint Task Force (North) on behalf of Canadian Joint Operations Command, and executed by the Task Force Nunalivut headquarters element, based in Resolute Bay and Rankin Inlet, Nunavut.
Specialized Arctic skill-sets include:• Arctic diving operations.• Underwater equipment
recovery operations.• Tactical movement across sea
ice.• Tactical communications in an
Arctic environment which prohibits the use of traditional means.
• Long range patrolling in Arctic conditions (extreme cold weather and low light/visibility).
• Sustainment of long-range operations in Arctic conditions.
• Landing of CAF aircraft on austere landing strips
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Canadian Armed Forces personnel disembark from CC-177 Globemaster transport aircraft at Nunavut for exercise.
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Out of province inspections for all makes and models with free wash
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4 Wing 10 FTTS trains at California baseAVR MICHELLINE EMOND
The CF-188 Servicing and Elementary Tasks course (AGYS) serial 2001 from 10 Field Technical Training Squadron (FTTS) was deployed with 409 Tactical Fighter Squadron (Tac F Sqn) at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California last month.
While there, 10 FTTS was able to give the CF-188 servicing course which consisted in launching and recovering the CF-188, fueling, oil and hydraulic refilling and liquid oxygen replenishment, just to mention a few.
The servicing was carried out daily and was fast paced, challenging and rewarding. In addition to
that, we were exposed to first line maintenance carried out by 409 Tac F Sqn, which showed us how smoothly our squadrons work together in order to maintain operations. Being on a highly busy Marine base, we were rewarded with double the opportunities to carry out our servicing functions.
We became accustomed to how the flight line works and had daily exposure to first line maintenance of the CF-188 Hornet. We are grateful for the chance to work alongside 409 Tac F Sqn and our allies. Because of this opportunity we walked away with full confidence in our abilities to service the CF-188 and support our aircraft in deployed operations.
Corporal Krystal Wilson
Aviator Michelline Emond, an Aircraft Structures Technician with 410 Tactical Fighter (Operational Training) Squadron, salutes after carrying out start procedures during Operation Southern Push at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, San Diego, California on February, 25, 2020.
