Operations and Special Events

Operations and Special Events

Alouette Mobile

1997 Homestead, AFB

1999 Eglin, AFB

2002 Homestead, AFB

Boxtop

Defence Test and Evaluation Organization (DTEO) Boscombe Down. UK

Boeing Vertol HC-2A

Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERO) Boscombe Down, UK

Merlin HM1

Exercises

Fincastle

1971 Comox, BC

1972 Tengah

1973 Edinburgh

1974 Whenuapai

1975 Greenwood. MS

1976 Kinloss

1977 Edinburgh

1978 Whenuapai

1979 Greenwood, NS

1980 St Mawgan

1981 Edinburgh

1982 Whenuapai

1983 Greenwood, NS

1984 Edinburgh

1985 Kinloss

1986 Edinburgh

1987 Greenwood, NS

1988 Edinburgh

1989 St Mawgan

1990 Greenwood, NS

1991 Edinburgh

1992 Kinloss, England

1993 Greenwood, NS

1994 Edinburgh

1995 Kinloss

1996 Whenuapai

1997 Comox, BC

1998 Edinburgh

1999 Kinloss, Scotland

2000 No competition

2001 Edinburgh

2002 Kinloss

2003 Pearce

2004 No competition

2005 Whenuapai

2006 Kinloss, Scotland

2008 Comox, BC

Cope Thunder

Yearly Air Combat Exercise held at Eielson AFB, Alaska with the 353rd Combat Training Squadron.

Cope Thunder

Red Flag

RIMPAC

Exercise held around Hawaii involving ships and aircrafts of many countries

1971

1972

1974

1976

1978

1980

1982

1984

1986

1988

1990

1992

1994

1996

1998

1999

2000

2002

2004

2006

2008

Rodeo

Strong Resolve 98

Spain/ Portugal March 9 to 21, 1998

UNIFIED SPIRIT 2000 (A NATO exercise held every two years to train the armed forces of member nations in joint and combined operations. The waters off Nova Scotia and Newfoundland )

October 2000

Operations

Accius (UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA))

November 2002 - June 2005

Addition (Canadian Forces (CF) contribution to the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE))

August 2000 - June 2003

Allied Force

Allied Forces South Tactical Evaluation Program (Naples Italy)

Altair (CF Contribution to the International Campaign Against Terrorism, Persian Gulf (Arabian Gulf) Region)

January 2004 - August 2005

Apollo (Canadian Forces (CF) contribution to the international campaign against terrorism. Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf (Arabian Gulf) region)

October 2001 - October 2003

LVG

Now called Southwest Asia

Archer (Canadian contribution to Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan)

2005 - Present

Argus (Strategic Advisory Team, Afghanistan)

September 2005 - to present)

Array Encounter

Artisan (Canadian Forces (CF) contribution to the Rinas Airfield Rehabilitation Project in Tirana, Albania)

August 2000 - August 2001

Assistance (Canadian Forces (CF) activities following the Red River Valley flooding. Manitoba)

April - May 1997

Athena (Canadian contribution to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), Afghanistan)

Arid

2005 - to

Augural (Darfur: Western Sudan (African Union)

2005 to

Calumet (Multinational Force and Observers (MFO),Sinai)

2005 to

Cambodian Mine Action Centre (Canadian Forces (CF) contribution to mine-removal operations in Cambodia)

1993 - June 30, 2000

Caravan (Canadian Forces (CF) contribution to the French-led Interim Emergency Multinational Force in Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC))

June - July 2003

Chaperon (Canadian Forces Military Observer to the United Nations Military Observers in Prevlaka (UNMOP))

February 1996 - September 2001

Central (Canadian Forces (CF) humanitarian assistance to a hurricane in Central America) (Honduras)

November 1998 - December 1998

Clean Hunter 2000

Eggebek, Germany

Constable (Canadian Forces (CF) contribution to the United Nations Transition Mission in Haiti (UNTMIH))

July 1997 - November 1997

Crocodile (UN Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC), Democratic Republic of the Congo)

2005 to

Danaca (UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), Golan Heights)

2005 to

Deny Flight

Desert Storm

Books

Title Desert Cats The Canadian Fighter Squadron in the Gulf War

Author David Deers

ISBN 0-919195-13-X

Determination (Canadian Forces (CF) contribution to the multinational force stationed in the Persian Gulf (Arabian Gulf) area to compel Iraq to comply with United Nations inspection agreements) (Persian Gulf (Arabian Gulf) Area)

February - May 1998

Direct Endeavour

Eagle Assist

Echo Canadian Forces (CF) contribution to the NATO Stabilization Force (SFOR) and Kosovo Force (KFOR))

June 1998 - December 21, 2000

Eclipse (Canadian Forces (CF) contribution to the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE))

November 2000 - June, 2001

Boreas (European Union Force (EUFOR),Bosnia-Herzegovina)

2005 to -

Forage (Canadian Forces (CF) contribution to the NATO operation ESSENTIAL HARVEST in the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia)

August 2001 - September 2002

Foundation (Tampa, Florida)

2005 -

Friction

Fusion (Canadian Forces (CF) contribution to Operation CONCORDIA , the European Union (EU) mission in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM))

April - May 2003

Halo (Canadian Forces (CF) contribution to the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH))

March - August 2004

Hamlet (CF Contribution to the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti Headquarters (MINUSTAH HQ),Haiti)

2005 to

Harmony (Canadian Forces (CF) contribution to the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) (Balkan Region )

February 1992 - December 1995

Hurricane

Iceshelf

1992

1993

International Military Advisory Training Team (IMATT), Sierra Leone)

2005 to

Iolaus (Iraq)

2005 to

Jade (UN Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO), Jerusalem

2005 to

Joint Guardian (Kosovo)

1999 - 2005

Joint Task Force (Afghanistan)

Canadian Helicopter Force Afghanistan

Arid

Approved

Prototypes

Canadian Heron UAV Detachment (CHUD)

LVG

Arid

Kinetic (Canadian Forces (CF) contribution to KFOR, the NATO peacekeeping force that operated in Kosovo and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM))

June 1999 - June 2000

Liane (Canadian Forces (CF) contribution to the United Nations (UN) Mission in Liberia (UNMIL)

September - November 2003

Megaphone Atlantic Ocean (Canadian Forces boarding of the GTS Katie)

July - August, 2000

Mikado

Muskox 1946

Noble Eagle

Palladium (NATO Stabilization Force (SFOR))

December 1995 - December 2004

Peregrine (Canadian Forces (CF) contribution to firefighting operations in British Columbia)

August - September 2003

Persistence (Canadian Forces activities following the crash of Swissair flight 111 off Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia. Atlantic Ocean)

September 1998

Preserve

Prevention

February 1997 to August 1997

Proteus (Jerusalem)

2005 to

Prudence (Canadian Forces (CF) contribution to the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic (MINURCA))

April 1998 - November 1999

Quadrant (Canadian Forces (CF) contribution to international missions in Kosovo)

July 1999 - September 2002

Record (Canadian Forces (CF) contribution to the United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observer Mission (UNIKOM))

May 1991 - August 15, 2001

Recuperation (Canadian Forces activities following the ice storm in east central Canada. New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario)

January - February 1998

Reptile (UN Mission in Sierra Leone (UNASMIL))

November 1999 - July 2005

Safari (United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS)

2005 to

Sharpguard (Enforcement of the United Nations Embargo of the Former Republic of Yugoslavia)

1993 to 1996

Sirius (Canadian Forces' participation in the NATO Campaign Against Terrorism)

October - December 2004

February - March 2005

Snowgoose (UN Forces in Cyprus (UNFICYP), Cyprus)

2005 to

Solitude (Canadian Forces Military Advisor and Senior Military Liaison Officer to the Special Representative of the Secretary General in West Africa (SRSG West Africa ))

March 2003 - March 2004

Operation Strong Resolve

Structure (Ampara, Sri Lanka)

December 2005 - March 2005

Support (Canadian Forces activities directly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. North America)

September 2001

Tactical Air Meet

Task Force K-Bar (Afghanistan 17 October 2001 to 30 March 2002)

The 1997 APEC Summit (Canadian Forces (CF) contribution to the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit, British Columbia )

November 1997

The United Command Military Armistice Commission (Canadian Forces (CF) contribution to UNCMAC in South Korea.

July 1953 - June 2000

Torrent (Canadian Forces (CF) humanitarian assistance to an earthquake in Turkey)

August 1999 - September 1999

Toucan (Canadian Forces (CF) contribution to the International Force in East Timor (INTERFET) and the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET))

October 1999 - April 2001