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Event Calendar

BGen (Ret) Don Macnamara, OMM, CD - Speakers Coordinator

Wednesday 09 April Meeting
Speaker:	Colonel David E. Barr, CD, Chief of Staff Operations, JTF 2010 Olympic Games, Station Forces, Victoria BC
Topic:	Preparing for the 2010 Olympics
Place:	5TH (BC) Field Regt RCA Officers’ Mess, Room 312, Bay Street Armoury 715 Bay Street, Victoria, BC. (South entrance on Field Street)
Time:	1130 for 1200 hrs Luncheon
Cost:	$18.00 (pay at the door)
A 1980 RMC graduate, he has served with the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, 3rd Battalion in every rank from Lt to Lt-Colonel in command. He served with the Canadian Airborne Regiment in Petawawa and with 3 PPCLI in Croatia 1992-93. After Staff College in 1993-94, he was briefly in NDHQ as Deputy CO of Joint Task Force 2. He commanded 3 PPCLI Battle Group in Bosnia-Herzogovina in 2000 with the NATO Stabilization Force. He was chief of staff, Land Forces Western Area and chief of staff Joint Task Force in support of security for the G8 Summit in Kananaskis, Alberta. In 2003 after the six-month national security studies course, he was Director of Infantry. In June 2004 he became Executive Assistant to the Chief of the Defence staff, before his present post.

Wednesday 14 May Meeting
Speaker:	Rear-Admiral Tyrone Pile, CMM, CD, Commander MARPAC/Joint Task Force Pacific, Victoria, BC
Topic:	The State of Canada’s West Coast Navy
Place:	5TH (BC) Field Regt RCA Officers’ Mess, Room 312, Bay Street Armoury 715 Bay Street, Victoria, BC. (South entrance on Field Street)
Time:	1130 for 1200 hrs Luncheon
Cost:	$18.00 (pay at the door)
On July 28 last, Rear-Admiral Tyrone Pile took command of Maritime Forces Pacific and Joint Task Force Pacific – a job that effectively gives him control over the navy’s ships, aircraft and sailors in the Pacific. RAdm Pile has spent 33 years in the navy including service in Haiti, the former Yugoslavia and the Arabian Gulf. He was most recently commander of Military Personnel at Defence headquarters in Ottawa. He pledged to continue easing the Navy into the Canada Command structure, the unified chain of command from regional to federal, thus bringing military resources from across Canada to bear on a crisis or threat. He holds a masters degree in history from the University of Victoria.

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