c. 1983 Canadian Airborne Forces and C.F.B. Petawawa Military Museums Postcard (Ontario, Canada) - Canadian Airborne Deploying Parachutes Descend onto the Drop Zone
The Canadian Airborne Regiment (French: Régiment aéroporté canadien) was a Canadian Forces formation created on April 8, 1968. It was not an administrative regiment in the commonly accepted British Commonwealth sense, but rather a tactical formation manned from other regiments and branches. It was disbanded in 1995 after the Somalia Affair.
In 1977, when the regiment moved to CFB Petawawa from Edmonton, it became the core of the Airborne Battle Group within the new Special Service Force, an all-arms light brigade group, tasked with the rapid reinforcement of NATO forces in Norway or Denmark. Its airborne artillery and engineer elements were reassigned to their parent units of the brigade. The total peacetime strength of the regiment was down to 750 all ranks.
LINK to - The story of the Canadian Airborne Regiment - airborneassociation.com/e/about/history.html
c. 1983 Canadian Airborne Forces and C.F.B. Petawawa Military Museums Postcard (Ontario, Canada) - Canadian Airborne Deploying Parachutes Descend onto the Drop Zone
The Canadian Airborne Regiment (French: Régiment aéroporté canadien) was a Canadian Forces formation created on April 8, 1968. It was not an administrative regiment in the commonly accepted British Commonwealth sense, but rather a tactical formation manned from other regiments and branches. It was disbanded in 1995 after the Somalia Affair.
In 1977, when the regiment moved to CFB Petawawa from Edmonton, it became the core of the Airborne Battle Group within the new Special Service Force, an all-arms light brigade group, tasked with the rapid reinforcement of NATO forces in Norway or Denmark. Its airborne artillery and engineer elements were reassigned to their parent units of the brigade. The total peacetime strength of the regiment was down to 750 all ranks.
LINK to - The story of the Canadian Airborne Regiment - airborneassociation.com/e/about/history.html