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Reservists from Manitoba construct a fire after taking a lesson from a Canadian Ranger. The reservists were at Candle Lake Saskatchewan recently for Exercise Arctic Bison, an arctic cheap travel late deals training exercise. (GREG WISEMAN/QMI AGENCY)
The cold temperatures at Candle Lake Saskatchewan are manifested on this reservists face as a demonstration by the Canadian Rangers is waatched. The reservists were at Candle Lake Saskatchewan recently for Exercise Arctic Bison, an arctic training exercise.GREG WISEMAN/MELFORT JOURNAL/QMI cheap travel late deals AGENCY
Reservists learn the intricacies of using a bun-gee cord to remove a snowmobile from its stuck position in the deep snow during Exercise Arctic Bison at Candle Lake saskatchewan.GREG WISEMAN/MELFORT JOURNAL/QMI AGENCY
A boom is used to simulate a helicopter lifting off as reservists practice bundling a LOSV (light over snow vehicle) to be lifted out by a helicopter.The reservists were at Candle Lake Saskatchewan recently for Exercise Arctic Bison, an arctic training exercise.GREG WISEMAN/MELFORT JOURNAL/QMI AGENCY
One of the Canadian Rangers talking to some of the reservists about building a signal fire. The reservists were at Candle Lake Saskatchewan recently for Exercise Arctic Bison, an arctic training exercise.GREG cheap travel late deals WISEMAN/MELFORT JOURNAL/QMI AGENCY
One of the Canadian Rangers talking to some of the reservists about building a shelter. The reservists were at Candle Lake Saskatchewan recently for Exercise cheap travel late deals Arctic Bison, an arctic training exercise.
One of the Griffon helicopters which was used in the simulated search and rescue operation cheap travel late deals which was part of Exercise Arctic cheap travel late deals Bison near Candle Lake Saskatchewan. GREG WISEMAN/MELFORT JOURNAL/QMI AGENCY
CANDLE LAKE, Sask. Reservist soldiers from Winnipeg are looking forward to thawing out once they return home Sunday after spending at least a week at a winter training exercise at the small resort village cheap travel late deals of Candle Lake, Sask.
The soldiers were trained in search and rescue techniques, fire starting, shelter building, creating signal fires and maintaining operations in frosty, frigid temperatures around the 30 C mark, not including the windchill coming off the frozen lake about 220 km northeast of Saskatoon.
We are learning quite a bit and the cold really helps, Winnipeg s Matthew Braun said while taking a short break from a session where Canadian Rangers were showing the reservists how to use a bungee cord system to pull out a stuck snowmobile. When you are not used to the cold you have to get used to it, especially if you are operating way up in the north.
Many of our soldiers in the Canadian Forces in the last 10 years have been very focused on a desert-like environment for obvious reasons and, as such, we have ignored what we as Canadians have come to appreciate, which is we live in a winter climate, he said in a command room at the Prince Albert Armoury.
At the FOB a command tent was set up where orders were given to the three different platoons: Saskatchewan, Winnipeg and Thunder Bay, each of which had a separate base set up 10 to 15 km away from the FOB.
The reservists went from station to station learning trapping and snaring cheap travel late deals small game for food if needed, how to build signal fires which generate smoke to alert passing aircraft, and how to build fires and shelter.
cheap travel late deals CANDLE LAKE, Sask. Reservist soldiers from Winnipeg are looking forward to thawing out once they return home Sunday after spending at least a week at a winter training cheap travel late deals exercise at the small resort village of Candle Lake, Sask.
The soldiers were trained in search and rescue techniques, fire starting, shelter building, creating cheap travel late deals signal fires and maintaining operations in frosty, frigid temperatures around the 30 C mark, not including the windchill coming off the frozen lake about 220 km northeast of Saskatoon.
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