What Ever Happened To ?

  7919 Tom Kupecz   CMR 1964-1967, RMC 1967-1969. Electrical Engineering Married the week after grad to Kate, who has stuck it through : ·          1970 – Pilot Wings, CFB Gimli. Honour Diploma for highest standing. ·          1971 – Line pilot and Ops Officer, 414 Squadron, CFB Uplands and CFB North Bay (CF100, CT33). Also a stint at 447 Sqn (Bomarc SAMs) as Missile Ops Officer. ·          1974 – Qualified Flying Instructor, CFB Moose Jaw (CT144 Tutor). A1 Category, Standards Officer. ·          1978 – Operations Officer, 10 Tactical Air Group HQ, CFB ST Hubert. Flew CF5 fighters and DHC-1 Otters. ·          1981 – Flight Commander, A Flight and Standards Flight, 419 Sqn, CFB Cold Lake on CF5 fighters. Managed Fighter Weapons Instructor Course. ·    ...

  7904 Normand Levert 1969 Review     Residing in Orléans (Ottawa) Ontario CMR 1964 – 1967, RMC 1967 – 1969 BSc Mech Eng. Joined Royal Canadian Engineers (RCE), trained at CF School of Military Engineering in Chilliwack BC. Master of Science, Project Management, Université du Québec à Hull, 1988 Met my future wife Laurie as a blind date on 28 September 1968. My first posting in 1969 was to 1 Field Squadron, RCE at CFB Petawawa, the closest field unit posting to my girl friend in Queen’s University. A very rich experience with “real soldiers” to learn leadership. In September 1970, was posted on short notice to 5e Escadron du Génie du Canada, Valcartier, just in time to participate in the October Crisis.   Laurie and I were married in May 1973. I was caught in the “Québec Cyclotron.” My next postings were in Construction Engineering.   My 3 rd posting to 5 e Bataillon des Services (Base CE) Valcartier 72 – 74, my 4 th to CFS Senneterre as SCEO 7...

  7924   ROBERT J BRADSHAW (aka Bob prior to grad; Robert after grad) 1969 Review                     Le Défilé 1964-1967 College Militaire Royal de St Jean 1967-1969 Royal Military College, Kingston.....B ENG 1969-1972 Started in pilot training and had an eye injury. Was sent from Moose Jaw, SK to Kingston Medical Centre for surgery which turned out to be medically complicated requiring 2 surgeries, resulting in non-reinstatement to aircrew status. Sent to 202 Workshop, Montreal to serve out my 3 year commitment in the forces.                                           AFTER THE MILITARY 1972-1974 Pursued my MBA at McGill University while working as Director of Maintenance for Maislin Transport, Ville LaSalle, Montreal. Also, through Maislin connections, raced stock cars in Vermont and New York State on weekends. 1...

  8012 William Sydney (Bill) Andrews Grew Up in Campbellville, a rural southern Ontario community of some 250 souls. Attended High School at University of Toronto Schools (UTS) in Toronto Attended RMC 1965-1969, commissioned as an Armour officer into Royal Canadian Dragoons (RCD) 1969 posted to Valcartier, one year at Defence Research Establishment Valcartier and then two years at 12 è me R é giment Blind é du Canada (12e RBC). Rom é o Dallaire and I, along with a bunch of other classmates, were promoted captain on the same day. This was the one and only time Rom é o and I shared such an event. 1972-1974 posted to Lahr to RCD 1974 attended Division 1 of British Army Staff Course at Shrivenham UK (Technical Staff College) 1975-1978 Posted to Gagetown to Armour School 1978-1979 posted to RCD Lahr 1979-1981 posted to CFB Borden 1981-1982 attended staff college in Toronto 1982-1985 posted to Petawawa to 8 th Canadian Hussars 1985-1987 posted to NDHQ to Directo...

     7753   CHRIS HORDAL 1969 Review How to begin and so many years! After graduation in 1969, I married my sweetheart Polly and headed off for a rather short period of flight training before the government no longer needed my services as a jet jockey. I transferred to the new Security Branch (to become the Intelligence Branch in 1982).and started my Intelligence career. Over the years, my domestic postings included Petawawa, Borden (twice), and NDHQ (numerous times, including time in the Privy Council Office and NDHQ Policy). Of the major highlights, four come to mind: ·          1973-1975 RMC Master of Arts in War Studies ·          1978-1982 Washington D.C. where my son Alex was born and I served as a Canadian Forces Intelligence Officer accredited to the Defense Intelligence Agency (and others) ·          1987-1988 Seven months on co...

  8068 J. R. (Dick) Reid       After grad in 1969, we had several months before our pilot course was to start.  So, Leagh Farrell and I decided that a well-earned vacation in Europe was in order.  We set out for Lahr, West Germany, rented a Volkswagen, whacked a CDN sticker on it and set out to tour the Schwarzwald, Switzerland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and back to Lahr.  Each afternoon, we would dine on a baguette, cheeses, cold cuts and a bottle of wine.  Apparently, one of our objectives was to find the cheapest bottle of wine that could be described as such – we got down to 25 cents.  It would appear that our taste buds were not particularly discriminating at that age.   Then, we were off to our pilot training in Borden, Moose Jaw and Gimli.  Wings were received in the Fall of 1970 in Gimli.  After a period of holdover while the Career Manager decided what to do with us, a goodly number of us were posted t...