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• Nov. 1, 2011 - Features
  Fallen SAR tech returns to Trenton
  
  “Sergeant Janick Gilbert was a devoted husband, exceptional father, and a professional search and rescue technician.”... » Read More
• Oct. 27, 2011 - Features
  CH-149 Cormorant airlifts ailing crewmember off container ship
  
  A CH-149 Cormorant helicopter from 103 Search and Rescue Squadron carried out a medical evacuation of a crewmember on board the Orient Overseas Container Line Belgium, a 245 x 32 metre container ship... » Read More
• Sept. 9, 2011 - Features
  Still writing after all these years!
  
  Gladys Osmond is a well-known stalwart supporter of Canadian Forces serving throughout the world. She estimates that she writes about 1,000 letters a month to members serving overseas... » Read More
• July 14, 2011 - Features
  9 Wing welcomes new Canadians
  
  On Canada Day, 9 Wing Gander, N.L., hosted a citizenship ceremony, welcoming 25 new Canadians as citizens of our nation... » Read More
• July 8, 2011 - Features
  CP-140 Auroras take on new role in Op Mobile
  
  The CP-140 Aurora long-range patrol aircraft is showing off its capabilities in the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions that have come its way on Operation Mobile... » Read More
• June 29, 2011 - Features
  It was a dark and stormy night!
  
  Search and Rescue (SAR) personnel are typically not called out in the middle of a nice sunny day when all is well and the weather is great... » Read More
• June 22, 2011 - Features
  New SAR techs receive their wings
  
  After 11 months of intensive training, the newest generation of search and rescue technicians (SAR techs) is ready to take their place in an operational unit as 10 new members received their SAR tech wings and distinctive orange berets... » Read More
• May 19, 2011 - Features
  Baffin Island crevasse rescue
  
  Search and rescue (SAR) teams from 14 Wing Greenwood, N.S., and 9 Wing Gander, N.L., rescued two Arctic hikers from Auyuittuq National Park on Baffin Island, Nunavut... » Read More
• Feb. 16, 2011 - Features
  “It was like an apartment building on its side”
  
  Members of 103 Search and Rescue Squadron battled 100-kilometre an hour winds at sea in late January to perform what some crew members say was the most challenging boat hoist of their careers... » Read More
• Feb. 15, 2011 - Features
  Award For Professionalism - Mister Daniel Penton
  
  On the 4th of August 2008, during a daily inspection of Cormorant CH149915, Mr Daniel Penton went above and beyond the call of duty... » Read More
• Nov. 30, 2010 - Features
  Ready to go
  
  It was apparently a perfect day to hover over the North Atlantic surf and practise search and rescue techniques in a Cormorant helicopter... » Read More
• May 6, 2010 - Features
  Burning ship sends Gander SAR crew out
  
  Crew on board a crab fishing vessel, the Marine Clipper II, made it safely into a lifeboat while their boat caught fire on May 4... » Read More
• Oct. 28, 2009 - Features
  103 Squadron responds to search for missing hunters
  
  Members of the local community on Fogo Island, the RCMP, the Coast Guard and Search and Rescue (SAR) contributed to the effort to find the two men... » Read More
• Oct. 27, 2009 - Features
  East coast search and rescue mission brings three home
  
  103 Search and Rescue (SAR) Squadron from 9 Wing Gander was called to duty on October 23 when a satellite system picked up a distress beacon of a fishing vessel off the coast of Newfoundland... » Read More
• July 7, 2009 - News Releases
  9 Wing Gander Defence Infrastructure Projects
  
  The Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence and Minister for the Atlantic Gateway, announced two infrastructure projects today for 9 Wing Gander... » Read More