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CFPSA deployed close to 500 employees to Bosnia, Afghanistan and Haiti during the past 5 years.
General Service Medal To Deployed
L-R – Som Ounarom, cashier at Camp Mirage during ROTO 2, now external to the Agency; Ian Petrie, Retail Manager in Camp Julien during ROTO 2; Monique Loranger, cashier at Camp Julien during ROTO 0, currently HR Assistant for SISIP FS; Gordon Wells, Welfare Manager during ROTO 0, currently leading the Deployed Ops team at CFPSA HQ; Sarah Flanagan, FS&R Coordinator in Camp Julien during ROTO 0, currently the CF Applicant Physical Fitness Programs Coordinator at CFPSA HQ; Christian Maheu, Cashier at Camp Warehouse during ROTO 1, now external to the Agency; Dave Fisher, Retail Coordinator at Camp Julien during ROTO 0, now external to the Agency.
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Seven Ottawa employees received the General Service Medal for serving with CFPSA as part of OP ATHENA in Afghanistan. The ceremony took place Sept. 12, 2005 at CFPSA HQ in Ottawa, with MGen Langton handing out the medals.
For Ian Petrie, the bar supervisor at the RCAF Officers’ Mess in Ottawa, the high point of his tour was seeing the resiliency of the Afghan people following 30 years of war. “Especially the children, that’s all they’ve known, is war,” he says. “To look into their eyes, and see their faces, they are such a happy people inside. They weren’t defeated by it at all. It’s incredible.”