David W Grebstad
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Seeking to serve others; Soldier; Author; Red River Metis; Winnipeg Jets/Blue Bombers super fan; all around nice guy.
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#OTD
in 1917, the preliminary artillery bombardment of
#VimyRidge
began. Read about it in
@IronIndignation
from
@2xdaggerbooks
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79 years ago on
#DDay
Canada’s sons stormed the beaches of Normandy. Some didn’t come home. All were changed for the rest of their lives. Think on them and their sacrifices.
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Ladies and Gentlemen. Your Canadian Artillery mounting the Queen’sGuard at Buckingham Palace!
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To defend our northern approaches, Canada has developed and deployed fire breathing polar bears. Your move, adversaries.
Photographer Josh Anon captured the perfect moment in which the rising sun made this polar bear's backlit breath look like fire [source: ]
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After it was desecrated by hate symbols, I was happy to attend a cleansing ceremony today at the National
#Aboriginal
#Veterans
Monument organized by
@TimOLoan
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I'm very sad to learn that LCol Jeff Lyttle, Commander of Canadian Forces Base Shilo, MB - Homestation of the Royal Canadian Artillery - passed away last night due to cancer.
He was only 46 and is survived by his wife and four children.
End of mission. Good shooting.
#RIP
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Here's a heroic young artillery lieutenant of 13th Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery who stormed the beaches of Normandy as a Command Post Officer in 22 Battery and was later wounded and evacuated. Oh, and he also starred in some movies and TV shows.
There’s a surprising number of reasonable people who are perfectly fine accepting the myth that an artillery lieutenant led a first wave assault infantry company onto Juno beach during
#DDay
. Anyhoo here’s Major Lockhart “Lockie” R. Fulton OC D Company Royal Winnipeg Rifles.
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Proud of my wife Colleen who today assumed command of 2nd Field Ambulance, Royal Canadian Medical Service!
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31 years in the CAF as of today!
How it started... How it's going.....
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I had the great privilege to attend
#RemembranceDay
at the RCHA Memorial in
@cityofkingston
.
#LestWeForget
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Thinking today if Nichola and Jeff. “They shall grow not old as we who are left grow old. Age shall not worry them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we shall remember them.”
#RemembranceDay
#lestweforget2021
#ubique150
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Born
#OTD
100 yrs ago, Lt. James Doohan, aka
#Scotty
the Chief Engineer on the USS Enterprise. Doohan served with 13 Fd Regt, RCA,
@3CdnDiv
. He was wounded on
#Juno
beach on Dday. 1/n
#Ubique
@JunoBeachCentre
@TheRCAMuseum
@CanadianArmy
@GeorgeTakei
@WilliamShatner
@StarTrek
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Celebrating my wife’s promotion to Lieutenant-Colonel.
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Veterans of Afghanistan. You are not alone. Today is hard. Tomorrow will be harder. If you want to talk, your friends want to listen. Reach out. Call. Email. Whatever. Your teammates are still there for you.
Please reach out.
🇨🇦
Members & Veterans: 1-800-268-7708
TDD/TTY: 1-800-567-5803
Family Line: 1-800-866-4546
Suicide Prevention: 1-833-456-4566
911
🇺🇸
Suicide Prevention: 1-800-273-8255
911
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Just the coach of the Grey Cup winning
@Wpg_BlueBombers
and his wife picking up garbage on the field after the victory celly. Totally
@CFL
. It’s our game.
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Very sad to share the passing of my father-in-law Lieutenant-Colonel (Ret’d) Richard Wilson. A man I greatly admired.
#RIP
gunner.
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A kind note from His Majesty shared with members of the CAF today:
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It garnered some disapproving glances but yesterday I wore the 1 RCHA 125th anniversary patch to commemorate the units birthday! Featured here at the Army Officers Mess at the Ottawa Gunners St. Barbara’s Day luncheon.
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5 km done and now cheering folks at the finish line!
Getting ready to head to the start line for the
@CanadaArmyRun
! I’ll be running the slowest 5km in history. Later I’ll be meeting folks at the finish line! It truly is no ordinary race!
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The Carl Gustav once again proves its value in modern conflict.
#IYKYK
Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf
The man who stopped the Russian Ambassador from attending this year’s Nobel Prize Banquet
🇸🇪🇺🇦
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It's
#Metisweek
. Did you know that
@CanadianForces
personnel are authorized to wear the
#Metis
sash with any order of dress, subject only to safety and operational requirements?
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We said farewell to my father-in-law LCol (Ret’d) Richard S. Wilson today. A touching ceremony with lots of laughter and many tears.
#RIP
Gunner. End of mission, good shooting.
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A little something about me.
Colonel David Grebstad currently serves as both the Canadian Army’s Director of Personnel Management and Regimental Colonel of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. He only very recently discovered his Métis heritage.
Learn more:
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Today is National Aboriginal Veterans Day. Thanks to our indigenous vets who have and continue to serve.
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It's been a heck of a ride!
#OTD
in 1990 I enlisted in the
@CanadianForces
. I think I've got another 32 years in me!
#canmiltwitter
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At
@CanWarMuseum
and the gun I learned my trade on is a museum item. Does that make me an historical artifact as well?
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Not to brag but I was the first FOO on the ground....
On March 13, 2002, more than 500 Canadian soldiers landed on a ridgeline known as the "Whale's Back" as part of Operation Harpoon. It was the Canadian army's first ever battalion-level helicopter assault.
#AfghanistanWar
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Today is National Aboriginal Veterans’ Day in 🇨🇦. Spare a moment to reflect on the sacrifices of First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples in service to our great nation.
#LestWeForget
#RemembranceDay
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I never had the honour to meet 5 of these men but I knew Jeff Francis quite well. A good man and a great gunner officer. It was very much a sad day.
#RIP
#OTD
in 2007, Corporal Jordan Anderson, Corporal Cole Bartsch, Master Corporal Colin Bason, Captain Matthew Dawe, Captain Jefferson Francis and Private Lane Watkins were killed in Afghanistan.
#CanadaRemembers
these brave soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice.
@CanadianForces
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I will blouse my combat pants until they pry the boot bands out of my cold dead hands.
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Happy to announce I’ve taken on the role of Regimental Colonel of the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery.
The Royal Canadian Artillery Association is pleased to welcome our new Regimental Colonel - Colonel D.W. Grebstad CD/L'Association de l'Artillerie royale canadienne est heureuse d'accueillir notre nouveau colonel régimentaire - le colonel D.W. Grebstad CD
#royalcanadianartillery
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You may not know it from recent reports but a large number of strategic and operational level staff officers have worked some VERY long hours over the last several weeks to make this happen. Proud of my team. I’m going to miss them.
First flight of Afghan interpreters lands in Canada, with more to come. Ottawa has pledged to resettle thousands of Afghans under threat from the Taliban.
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Take a moment to think of the 560 Canadians 🇨🇦 who gave their lives in the Sicilian campaign. The invasion of Sicily occurred 10 July 1943.
#ww2history
Over 45,000
#Canadian
soldiers lost their lives during the
#SecondWorldWar
, including over 560 in the
#Sicilian
campaign. 490 of them rest at the Agira Canadian Military Cemetery in Sicily. Some have no known graves & their names are commemorated on the Cassino Memorial in Italy.
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Today is
#nationalpeacekeepersday
in 🇨🇦.
August 9 was selected to recognize the greatest single loss of Canadian lives on a peacekeeping mission, which occurred on that date in 1974.
Please think today on the sacrifices made by Canada's peacekeepers.
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There’s a surprising number of reasonable people who are perfectly fine accepting the myth that an artillery lieutenant led a first wave assault infantry company onto Juno beach during
#DDay
. Anyhoo here’s Major Lockhart “Lockie” R. Fulton OC D Company Royal Winnipeg Rifles.
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I wrote my father’s obituary today. That just hit me like a ton of bricks.
Thursday night, my father Harvey passed peacefully. I was lucky to be able to spend time with him during his last days. He had been I’ll for some time but declined quickly in the last 48 hrs. He was looking forward to reuniting with mom in heaven. He’ll be missed.
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Wishing a very happy birthday to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Captain-General of the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery.
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Funny Individual Meal Package (
#IMP
) story: phase training in G-town, instructors dropped all our rats at a grid loc and we had to patrol to find them for breakfast next day. Of course the bears got into them first and ate everything...except the ham omelet aka "the lung."
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I made time to place a poppy and pay my respects at the National Indigenous Veterans Memorial on
#IndigenousVeteransDay
, 8 November 2021. Happy to represent the National Capital Region Defence Indigenous Advisory Group as both its champion and a
#RedRiverMetis
.
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I had the great pleasure today to chat with Private Nault of the Queens own Cameron Highlanders of Canada. She’s a bagpiper and a citizen of the
@MBMetis_MMF
. She participated in todays
#IndigenousVeteransDay
ceremony at
@RoyalCdnLegion
Branch 250 in St. Laurent, Manitoba.
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Thursday night, my father Harvey passed peacefully. I was lucky to be able to spend time with him during his last days. He had been I’ll for some time but declined quickly in the last 48 hrs. He was looking forward to reuniting with mom in heaven. He’ll be missed.
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Because it's Friday and I want to create a Twitter storm. Left=Tank. Right=Not Tank (Self-propelled gun).
Let battle commence.
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With the release of CANFORGEN making it official, I'm happy to share that I will be assuming the duties of Director of Peacekeeping Policy later this summer. I'm looking forward to the exciting new challenges and opportunities this will present.
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Today I’m celebrating 19 years with my lovely wife Colleen!
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@mattgurney
The problem with generating an army of amoral criminal mercenaries is you end up with an army of amoral criminal mercenaries.
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It was a dark day 17 years ago. I never had a chance to meet these men although we lived mere meters apart in
#Kandahar
. Horrible news to awaken to.
#RIP
Also important to remember the others from 3PPCLI who were seriously injured in the blast.
#Rakkasans
#PPCLI
#OpApollo
#OTD
in 2002, four Canadians soldiers were killed in
#Afghanistan
, the first Canadian deaths of the war. Sgt Marc Léger, Cpl Ainsworth Dyer, Pte Richard Green, and Pte Nathan Smith of
@PPCLI100
died after a bomb was accidentally dropped on them by an American jet.
#LestWeForget
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They started the tradition of excellence in 1920. Canadians. Manitobans. Winnipeggers. The Winnipeg Falcons, winners of the first ever Olympic Gold Medal in Ice Hockey and the first World Champions.
#GoCanadaGo
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On
#InternationalNurseDay2023
you should all read the
@TorontoStar
article about my wife Colleen from 2014.
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Getting ready to head to the start line for the
@CanadaArmyRun
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We have recently suffered the tragic loss of a member of our Regimental Family.
Lt. Stewart Williamson, 2nd Regiment, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, passed away 3 April 2023, aged 27.
Link to obit: .
#RIP
Gunner. End of Mission, Good Shooting.
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Suggestion: A common income tax rate for all CAF members regardless of where they are stationed, payable to the province of residence.
Today, we held our annual
#SeamlessCanada
conference with provincial/territorial representatives to discuss how we can improve the relocation experience for
#CAFFamilies
.
Focus was on child care, education, and spousal employment resources for CAF families.
#CAFJourney
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I had the tremendous opportunity to host
@BradStCroix
of
@OTDCanMilHis
fame at the Canadian Army Officers Mess for lunch today! He naturally gravitated to the
#Vimy
picture.
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No matter how many times I watch this iconic footage, I remain mesmerized. Full respect to the men who went ashore.
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Wishing my friends and colleagues in the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry a very happy Regimental Day!
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Not mentioned in this story - for some inexplicable reason - is that the CO of 2 Field Ambulance's husband is handsome, smart and incredibly debonair.
Armour meets ambulance 🪖🚑
2 Field Ambulance received the first delivery of the ambulance variant of the new Armoured Combat Support Vehicles. These vehicles will enhance the safety and effectiveness of our medics on the battlefield.
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For reasons completely unrelated to posts floating sound out there: the one on the left is a tank. The one on the right isn’t. There’s a major difference. In this case 120 mm of major difference, just to start.
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I'm kind of a big deal...
Today, we celebrate Canada's National Flag, the cultural heritage that it represents, and remember the men and women who have protected and continue to protect our country's rights and freedoms.
#FlagDay
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You run into all sorts in
@ottawacity
! I bumped into
@OTDCanMilHis
and
@Col_Cmdt_RCA
at the National Artillery Memorial!
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After 364 days of peacekeeping operations in the Sinai, my replacement arrived last night! Nine days of handover/takeover and then I'm on my way HOME!
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It's official. I promise to use my new powers only for good.
Essentially I am the Toby Flenderson of the Canadian Army.
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Hear! Hear!
Although I'm partial to one particular Army Nurse who I personally think is the
#GOAT
We’d like to take a moment, during this National Nursing Week, to give a shout out to the Canadian military medical staff who are working around the clock to provide essential care to troops in the field during Ex MAPLE RESOLVE.
#IND2023
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It's not every day a new battery is added to the
@CanadianArmy
Order of Battle!
Today 4th Artillery Regiment (General Support), RCA stood up 127 Battery as a Very Short-Range Air Defence (VSHORAD) Battery.
Ubique!
Earlier today, 4th Artillery Regiment (General Support), RCA marked the standing up of 127 Battery as a Very Short-Range Air Defence System (VSHORAD) Battery.
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Congratulations to Colonel S. Heer, LCol J. Causey, and CWO D. Shaughnessey of The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery on their joining the Order of Military Merit as Officers and Members.
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Getting ready to head over to
@FierteCapPride
and march in the
#PRIDEPARADE
with amazing teammates from the Defence Team Pride Advisory Organization! Hope to see you there!
#PSPW2022
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Kandahar has fallen. I have no words. The best blood of a generation was shed on those sands. I'm thinking tonight of my friends who stood and fought in those fields and those who didn't come home.
BREAKING: Afghan officials say the Taliban have taken the southern city of Kandahar, the 12th provincial capital out of 34 to fall to the insurgents.
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Gun salute in honour of Prince Philip. Photo by
@CanadianArmy
Public Affairs.
#UBIQUE150
@Canadian_Crown
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I'm not sure why, but this post seems to have disappeared from my profile.
#LestWeForget
@CanadianForces
personnel start the
@RoyalCdnLegion
poppy campaign today! I’ve got mine, do you have yours? Wear it with pride and reverence.
#LestWeForget
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Wearing red with operational dress on
#RedDressDay
to highlight
#MMIWG2S
. The Policy Group’s Gender Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Working Group has also placed Red Dresses and info sheets on every floor of the building in high-traffic areas.
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Not everybody gets the Director of Artillery as a driver…
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Another day, another ball with my wife. This time her staff college graduation ball!
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I was honored to help raise the Survivors' Flag at National Defence Heaquarters (Carling) today, proudly wearing my Metis sash as a citizen of
@MBMetis_MMF
#TruthAndReconciliation
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Feeling old. Tried to explain the comedic brilliance of the Kids in the Hall's "These are the Daves I know" song to a couple millennial policy officers on my team. They didn't see the humor in it.
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As Champion of the National Capital Region Defence Aboriginal Advisory Group, I want to thank
@TimOLoan
@OttawaPolice
and
@OPP_ER
for addressing the desecration of the National War and National Aboriginal Veterans Memorials. I will update the NCR DAAG membership ASAP.
Wanted to let you all know, thanks to the assistance of the
@OttawaPolice
and
@OPP_ER
that both the national war memorial and the aboriginal veterans monument have been cleared. We cleansed both spaces w a smudge, ceremony and prayers. We need to de better.
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Retweeting this tweet of your Canadian Gunners conducting avalanche control in Rogers Pass in honor of
#InternationalMountainDay
.
Ready, aim, fire! 💥
CAF members are currently working with
@ParksCanada
to control avalanches in Rogers Pass, B.C. Gun crews fire 105-mm howitzer field guns along the Trans-Canada Highway to prevent avalanches from blocking the national transportation corridor.
@CanadianArmy
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When the King of Battle speaks, you listen.
BZ to the gunners of 1 RCHA!
#Ubique
Suns out, Gun Out!
1 RCHA conducted Ex LIMBER GUNNER in Shilo, MB to build on their skills to deliver ture firepower on the battlefield.
The artillery really is, the King of Battle.
🎥 MCpl Brandon Liddy
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I had the tremendous honour to be hosted by
@armygirl_jen
to observe 30th Field Regiment, RCA -the Bytown Gunners - conducting a 96-gun salute in honour of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, our Captain General.
#QueenElizabethII
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As bad as this week has been for those of us living in downtown
#Ottawa
, I used the word “heretofore” in a sentence when briefing some of
@AnitaAnandMP
staff so I still consider it a win.
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Artillery geek point: we don’t shoot howitzers at the mountain. We shoot projectiles.
We're working with
@ParksCanada
to help keep Canadians safe and supply chains open in Rogers Pass.
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Army Reservists are Twice the Citizen.
A big congratulations to our very own Master Bombardier Tollett who along with 540 other cadets, successfully challeged and graduated from the Ontario Police College last week in Aylmer and will continue on with his next phase of training with Brantford Police Services (BPS).
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Today I'm celebrating seventeen years with my best friend, my rock, my fire-team partner and my soul mate. Happy Anniversary Babe!
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