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The Canadian Army Advanced Warfare Centre (CAAWC, French: Centre d'instruction supérieure en guerre terrestre de l'Armée canadienne, CISGTAC), formerly Canadian Forces Land Advanced Warfare Centre (CFLAWC), Canadian Parachute Centre (CPC), and Canadian Airborne Centre (CABC), is a Canadian Forces training facility at CFB Trenton, Ontario, Canada.
Canadian Forces Base Suffield (also CFB Suffield) is the largest army training area in Canada.The CFB is in southeastern Alberta, 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) north-northwest of Suffield, [2] 50 km (31 mi) northwest of Medicine Hat and 250 km (160 mi) southeast of Calgary.
The Royal Military College of Canada (French: Collège militaire royal du Canada), abbreviated in English as RMC and in French as CMR, [4] [5] is a military academy and, since 1959, a degree-granting university of the Canadian Armed Forces. It was established in 1874 and conducted its first classes on June 1, 1876.
The centre is headquartered at the 5th Canadian Division Support Base Gagetown, New Brunswick, and maintains schools at CFB Kingston, 8 Wing Trenton and CFB Borden in Ontario. Originally known as the Combat Arms School, it was formed at Camp (now CFB) Borden , Ontario, in 1965, moving to CFB Gagetown in the early 1970's.
After 1995, the Department of National Defence disbanded the CMC, and all military training and education was re-directed to the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. Royal Roads Military College was closed at that time, and it was replaced by a public university called Royal Roads University. In July 2007, the federal ...
St. John Ambulance Canada plaque at Royal Military College of Canada. St. John Ambulance was established in Canada in 1883. Under this banner, volunteers from coast-to-coast carry out the humanitarian services of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem. 1883 First first aid course in Canada is conducted in Quebec City.
PSTC has two training sub-units and a standards sub-unit. The training sub-units and their specialties are as follows: A Squadron – Military Observer, Hazardous Environment Training, Individual Pre-Deployment Training, Security Force Advisory Training. B Squadron - Civil-Military Cooperation, Information Operations, Psychological Operations
Appointed Officer of the Order of Military Merit 29 Nov 1993. [6] Post-Command was promoted Colonel and became first woman to command a Canadian Brigade Group (41 CBG) in 1997. [7] Appointed first Reserve Advisor to Commander Canadian Forces Health Services Group (later Director Health Services Reserve) from 2000 to 2007.