ENGLISH/ANGLAIS WA2016-0024-04 11 June 2016 Warrant

ENGLISH/ANGLAIS
WA2016-0024-04
11 June 2016
Warrant Officer (WO) Kevin Conroy from 4 Wing Construction Engineering, Cold Lake, Alberta loads military kit onto a aircraft in Calgary, Alberta prior to departing for South Dakota, USA to participate in Exercise GOLDEN COYOTE 2016.
Some 240 Canadian Army Reservists from 41 Canadian Brigade Group (41 CBG) will participate in Exercise GOLDEN COYOTE 2016 in South Dakota, from June 11 to 23, 2016.
This marks the thirty-second year for Exercise GOLDEN COYOTE, one of the longest-running and largest National Guard exercises in the United States. It is an annual, joint, multi-national exercise, hosted by the South Dakota Army National Guard and conducted in cooperation with the U.S. National Forest Service and Custer State Park.
Approximately 4000 military personnel from Canada, Denmark, Singapore, Suriname, the United Kingdom, and the United States will be working together to create invaluable training experiences as well as demonstrate the interoperability between allied militaries. This exercise allows units to conduct combat support and combat service support missions in a realistic training environment and will include the conduct of real-time engineering missions.
Participation in exercises such as Exercise GOLDEN COYOTE contributes to the operational readiness of the Canadian Armed Forces, which in turn will allow the CAF to meet the likely tasks that the Government of Canada will assign.