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8058 Terry Melnyk 1969 Review Somewhat to my surprise, I completed 37 years in the CF as an artillery officer. Regimental duty with 3 RCHA in Shilo and Winnipeg and 5 RALC in Valcartier. A tour in Cyprus with 5 RALC and a posting as Liaison Officer with the a US Army research institution in New Jersey pretty much sum up my foreign duties. My career as an artillery officer crested when an appointment as Battery Commander (HQ Battery with 5 RALC) was cancelled when I slipped a disk in my back for the second time and was put on extended medical category. That, of course, eventually healed but left me with permanent nerve damage in one leg, happily with no particular mobility issues or pain. I was by then in competition with younger, keener (and better probably) officers for the key postings and so I settled into the life as a staff officer. I had earlier spent a number of years as a working military historian with the Directorate of History. This was at...