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Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
Colonel-in-Chief: The Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, PC, CC, CMM, COM, CD Colonel of the Regiment: Brigadier-General V.W. Kennedy, OMM, MSM, CD (Retired) Regimental Major: Major Slade Lerch, MMM, CD
Regimental Adjutant: Captain Douglas Boyes
Regimental Warrant Officer: Warrant Shaun Peterson, CD
Regimental Veteran’s Care NCO: Sergeant Blake Dunphy
Regimental Museum General Manager: Sergeant Nathaniel Blackmore
Members of Charlie Company, First Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry dig up a hotspot and extinguish
the fire during Operation LENTUS 17-04
1 PPCLI
2017 was a highly successful year of transi- tions for the First Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (1 PPCLI), seeing the unit through the return and departure of two international operations. The battalion deployed Alpha Company (A Coy), plus attachments, on Op REASSURANCE, Rotation 6 in Poland, who returned back to home soil in March of this year. Exercises STRONG CONTENDER 17 and RELENTLESS WARRIOR 17, the annual brigade sports and unarmed combat competition, ended in late January, with 1 PPCLI placing 2nd as a Major Unit Aggregate in STRONG CONTENDER and winning the RELENTLESS WARRIOR compe- tition for the second year in a row. With the return of our bare-knuckler-bruiser, Master Corporal Godin, 2018’s RELENTLESS WARRIOR promises to be another smashing success.
Battle Group (BG) in Latvia. To further prepare for the departure of the eFP BG, a Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-command link (TOW) missile system course was run to beef up the battalion’s Anti-Armour Platoon, returning the long-range anti-armour capability to our unit.
While the rifle companies were maintaining the success of the battalion on various multi-national tasks, Combat Support Company and Admin- istration Company merged into a single entity, Headquarters Company (HQ Coy), to consolidate manpower and resources to support battalion exercises, such as Ex BALTIC DEFENDER and Ex SUMMER SHIELD, both designed to get the eFP BG at peak functionality before their deployment.
Following a successful Family Day in early May, 1 PPCLI Reconnaissance Platoon, with assistance from Charlie Company (C Coy), ran Individual Battle Task Standard (IBTS) training for deploying eFP BG, to include Personal Weapons Test (PWT) 1-3, Pairs Live and Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) training. The latter half of May saw Reconnaissance Platoon run its first two week Pre-Basic Recce Patrolman (Pre-BRP) course that focused on reconnaissance-specific training, to
The return of A Coy in March marked the imminent
departure of two company-sized groups and a
headquarters element, including the Commanding
Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Rutland and Regimental
Sergeant Major, Chief Warrant Officer Forest, to
deploy on Op REASSURANCE, Rotation 8, as
part of the Enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) include battle procedure, detachment/section-size
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