Public Affairs' view of events of the past week in Boise Idaho at the Orchard Training Area/ MATES and Gowen field, where members of 39 CBG trained alongside members of the Arizona National Guard.
In a strange coincidence of timing, I'm going through the same thing right now.
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OTTAWA - Facing cries for help from families of Canadian soldiers, military ombudsman Pierre Daigle said he is stepping in to help.
QMI Agency has learned Daigle has launched a top-to- bottom review of Department of National Defence policies that affect soldiers' family life.
"We're going to be talking to military families and looking at the care and treatment they have received throughout their experience with the Canadian Forces," said Daigle in a statement posted online Thursday morning.
Among the issues he'll examine will be decrepit housing on military bases.
Daigle said he was shocked by what he saw when he visited a soldier's wife who had seven kids.
"It was the cleanest house I've ever seen," Daigle told QMI Agency. "But you know what? Every week she was scrubbing the mould from the window with a toothbrush to make sure that it will not affect the health of her kids."
The Governor General's Horse Guards: Nulli Secundus
1963:
WO II Walter (Rocky) Leja of the 3rd Field Engineer Regiment was critically injured while defusing a mailbox bomb in Westmount, Quebec. He was awarded the George Medal.
