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Season’s Greetings from Canadian Military Engineers

    Another year has gone by and our Canadian Military Engineer Community remains very strong. From opening new operations to fighting fires in Canadian communities, we continue to provide outstanding operational support to… more...

Canadian Military Engineers Change Of Appointment – Branch Advisor

Under the authority of the Chief of Military Personnel, Col Martin Gros-Jean, CD, was appointed the new Branch Advisor for Canadian Military Engineers. On the 02 November 2017, he has assumed his new responsibility during the Change of… more...
BGen A.R. Jayne, CD (Outgoing Branch Advisor), MGen J.S. Sirois, OMM, CD (CAF Chief Military Engineer), Col M. Gros-Jean, CD (Incoming Branch Advisor) signing the Branch Advisor change of appointment certificate

New General Officer in the CME Branch

Col Kevin Horgan was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General on 22 November 2017 and appointed the Chief of Staff Vice Chief of the Defence Staff (VCDS). Click here for biography.
From left to right: LGen Michael Hood, Comd RCAF, Ben Horgan, Christine Horgan, BGen Kevin Horgan and Gen Jonathan Vance, Chief of the Defence Staff

Remembering the Woodsmen

By Cpl A. Watts (4 ESR) & Capt J. Bennett (4 ESR) There are distinct nostalgic qualities rooted through decades of developed reputation that come to mind when one hears the title Lumberjack. A burly character with calloused hands, who… more...
Canadian and French representatives

A Wildly Important Meeting -- CF Real Property Operations Group

By: Maj Henry Berghuis, CF RP Ops Gp HQ Coordinator A wildly important goal! That was the focus of a gathering of the CF Real Property Operations Group (RP Ops Gp) Command Team in Ottawa on 18 October 2017. A wildly important goal is one… more...
Colonel Martin Gros-Jean, Comd CF RP Ops Gp (seated, left) and Chief Warrant Officer Gord Aitken, FCWO (seated, right) surrounded by the Regional command teams and CF HQ staff.

Sgt Dale Kurdziel Receives Second Medal of Bravery

Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada, presented the Medal of Bravery to Sergeant Dale Kurdziel,  MB at a ceremony at Rideau Hall, on Thursday, 23 November 2017.  This… more...
Sgt Dale Kurdziel, MD receives a second Medal of Bravery, 22 November 2017

CME Fun Run 2017

Over 100 people, both civilian and military, working within engineering branches around the National Capital Region took part in the CME Fun Run on Friday 20th October 2017. The CME Fun Run is annual event that coincides with the CF Sports… more...
Q-Tips from RP Ops Gp comprised of Maj Jessie Knocklby, Maj P.A. Chéné, LCol Sarah House, Maj Pierre Muscat-Drago, and Col Martin Gros-Jean. They finished in a time of 25m30s.

Fifth Field Company Honoured at Queen's

Reprinted from Queen's University Journal 11 November 2017 (http://www.queensjournal.ca/story/2017-11-13/news/second-queens-remembe…) Local veterans, military personnel and their families, as well as students and faculty from both… more...
The second Queen's Remembers plinth is located at the intersection of Union and Fifth Field Company Lane. Photo: Julia Balakrishnan

Goose Bay Clean-Up Reaches Its Peak of Activity

After more than 12 years of work on one of the Department of National Defence’s largest environmental projects, activity at CFB Goose Bay reached its peak this summer with the remediation of thousands of cubic metres of contaminated soil… more...
Planting vegetation in the Engineered Wetland, South Escarpment at CFB Goose Bay, NL

Order of Military Merit Investiture Ceremony 10 November 2017

Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada, presided over an Order of Military Merit investiture ceremony at Rideau Hall, on Friday, November 10, 2017.  The Governor General… more...
MWO Richard Joseph Rosaire Martin Bonenfant, M.M.M., C.D.