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Articles - 12/6/2006
Lieutenant-Colonel Rob Coulthard in theatre at Camp Mirage where he commands the Theatre Support Element for the Canadian Forces. CREDIT: DND “The smoothest airlift operation I have ever seen”
The Air Force has been supporting operations in Afghanistan through its air mobility forces for about the past five years. Much of that support has come from the personnel at 8 Wing Trenton whose professionalism and dedication is catching the eye of... » Read More

Articles - 11/21/2006
Padre Lloyd Clifton performing one of his last acts as a CF Chaplain ? presiding over the Ad Astra Stone dedication ceremony at 8 Wing Trenton on September 30. Credit: Cpl Tom Parker Canadian Forces longest-serving Chaplain moves on
When Padre Lloyd Clifton came to Canadian Forces Base (now 8 Wing) Trenton to catch the Boeing that would take him to his first posting in Comox, B.C. in January 1979, little did he know that his career would end there as well. » Read More

Articles - 10/31/2006
The engraved stones can be seen alongside the paths of the air park, which is adjacent to the museum, or can be found in a hard-copy registry, where people can look up names and get coordinates of a particular stone. Dedicated to remembering all that came before
An estimated 1,800 people - military personnel, retirees, friends, family and dignitaries - gathered at the RCAF Memorial Museum at 8 Wing Trenton for the 2006 Ad Astra Stone dedication ceremony on September 30. » Read More

Articles - 9/25/2006
CAPTION: A Search and Rescue Technician tends to an ?injured? victim during SAREX 2005 at Summerside, Prince Edward Island. CREDIT: DND National Search and Rescue exercise starts today at 22 Wing North Bay
The skies over North Bay, Ontario will be busier than usual starting today as the largest Air Force Search and Rescue (SAR) exercise of the year takes place » Read More

News Releases - 9/19/2006
Wing Commander Tom Lawson (centre) makes construction of the new medical clinic official at a signing ceremony at 8 Wing Trenton with the Wing Administration Officer, LCol Debbie Miller (left), and Alan Sarsons, Primex Project Management Limited (right). New medical clinic for military families to open at 8 Wing Trenton
Military families will soon have access to a medical clinic right in their midst, thanks to an agreement signed on August 25, 2006. » Read More

Articles - 8/29/2006
Lt (N) Petie Ledrew , 8 Wing Trenton Assistant Public Affairs Officer presents Major Douglas Agnew, J2 National Support in Kandahar, with a going- away gift of Oldtoad Gil?s CDs for distribution to CF troops deployed overseas. Photo: Cpl Tom Parker Artists put their souls on CD for deployed troops
8 Wing Trenton is the staging base for most major Canadian Forces operations. Every six months or so, the CC-150 Polaris (Airbus A310) is used to ferry troops back and forth between Canada and Afghanistan among other hot spots around the world. » Read More

Articles - 8/23/2006
Major Andy ?Cookie? Cook, Aircraft Commander of the Canadian CC-130 Hercules gives a thumbs-up from the cockpit. Maj. Cook is part of the Theatre Support Element (TSE) working out of Southwest Asia. credit/source: MCpl Robert Bottrill Canadian CC-130 Hercules crews conduct Dutch troop insertion
Shortly after sunrise in the mountains northwest of Kandahar, Afghanistan, a CC-130 Hercules from the Tactical Airlift Unit (TAU) at Camp Mirage began the steep descent to Tarin Kowt » Read More

Articles - 8/22/2006
Keegan Proulx smiles as he spends a few last moments with his dad, Master Corporal John Proulx, a firefighter from CFB Bagotville, while his brother JC looks on. Air Force transports soldiers to Afghanistan, farewells emotional
One day the 8 Wing Trenton flight line is sombre with the homecoming of another Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan, while the next it’s filled with soldiers kissing their loved ones goodbye » Read More

Articles - 8/16/2006
With little training and no experience, and after joining the team at the last minute, Pte Rick Kennedy finished the course in 2 minutes 4 seconds. Push, pull, douse: the toughest two minutes in sports
Quinte West residents had the opportunity to watch some very fit people in action in late July as the city hosted the Lake Ontario Regional Scott Firefighter Combat Challenge. » Read More

News Releases - 7/28/2006
Supplies roll to the back of the ramp of a Canadian Forces CC-130 Hercules aircraft over an undisclosed location in Afghanistan to re-supply coalition forces undergoing combat operations. Photo by MCpl Robert Bottrill Air crews engaged in aerial combat re-supply drops
Deep in the southern provinces of Afghanistan - Helmand, Zabul, Oruzgan and Kandahar - approximately 10,000 Afghan and Coalition forces are pursuing enemy forces as part of Operation Mountain Thrust. » Read More

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