A Day With Rescue 309
I’ve mentioned here earlier that one of my secondary duties at 14 Wing is to serve if called as a spotter on Search and Rescue flights. A SAR spotter serves […]
Search and Rescue Spotter Training
This morning I had the opportunity, along with some twenty other members of 14 Wing, to learn a little about the work of Search and Rescue (SAR) crews. We had […]
No Drag Dragon Boat Day
14 Wing’s Dragon Boat team participated in an event on Lake Banook, Datmouth (near Halifax) as part of the Kiwanis Make-a-wish Community Dragon Boat Festival on Sept. 26th. Organized by […]
A Sermon for Battle of Britain Sunday
The Sunday closest to September 15th is traditionally known as Battle of Britain Sunday. I had the opportunity to offer a few words Sunday afternoon at a ceremony hosted by […]
Firefighter For a Day
Who hasn’t looked at firefighters in action and thought, just for a minute, I’d like to do that? This Monday I had the chance to be a firefighter for seven […]
Village Elder or Village Idiot?
Master Corporal Mike Wooley, an excellent soldier, accomplished photographer and former comrade from 4RCR, was kind enough to direct me to a cache of photographs maintained by 31 Canadian Brigade […]
Mike Bikes for Bibles, or, the Adventures of a Cycling Chaplain
I don’t wish to be smug about this, but the Canadian Forces recently paid me to ride my bike for a week. How great is that? The following is a […]
A Prayer for a Change of Command Parade
One of the purposes of this blog is to highlight the work that military chaplains do, and one of the chaplain’s traditional places is at a change of command parade, […]
The Strange Hopefulness of Military Gardeners
This spring Kay and I have been busy with gardening projects. Growing things is Kay’s raison d’etre, and I love her passion for all growing things (well, except for roses, […]
To Open Or Not To Open
I appeared in print in The Maple Leaf, the Canadian Forces newspaper, last week. Here’s how. The story behind this old bottle of champagne was told in The Maple Leaf, […]