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CFB Esquimalt comprises facilities including Naden ( formerly HMCS Naden ), Her Majesty's Canadian ( HMC ) Dockyard Esquimalt, Fleet Maintenance Facility – Cape Breton ( FMF-CB ), a Fire Fighting and Damage Control School, the Naval Officer Training Centre ( NOTC Venture ), and extensive housing including 716 personnel married quarters located at nine sites such as Belmont Park, Work Point, and Royal Roads.
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CFB and Esquimalt
* 2010 – The MV Sun Sea docks in CFB Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada, carrying 492 Sri Lankan Tamils.
* CFB Esquimalt Naval and Military Museum article on Demara
* VENTURE NOTC, the Canadian Naval Officer Training Centre based in CFB Esquimalt, British Columbia
* CFB Esquimalt HMC Dockyard ( Esquimalt )
* CFB Esquimalt Naden ( Esquimalt )
* CFB Esquimalt Military Museum ( Esquimalt )
* LookOut, newspaper of CFB Esquimalt Navy Base
* CFB Esquimalt, British Columbia
This has caused problems as nearby Esquimalt houses CFB Esquimalt, Canada's Pacific naval base, is used frequently by the United States Navy.
* Joint Task Force ( Pacific ), based at the CFB Esquimalt naval base in British Columbia and commanded by the Commander of Maritime Forces Pacific, includes British Columbia, its coastlines and the Pacific maritime approaches ;
* JRCC Victoria, based at the CFB Esquimalt naval base in British Columbia, is responsible for the Victoria Search and Rescue Region, consisting of British Columbia, Yukon and over 560, 000 square kilometres in the Pacific Ocean.
Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt ( CFB Esquimalt ) is Canada's Pacific Coast naval base and home port to Maritime Forces Pacific and Joint Task Force Pacific Headquarters.
Due to their significance in Canadian naval history, four sites at CFB Esquimalt ( the dockyard, the former Royal Navy Hospital, the Veterans ’ Cemetery and the Cole Island Magazine ) have been designated the Esquimalt Naval Sites National Historic Site of Canada.
HMCS Brandon ( MM 710 ) | HMCS Brandon ( MM 710 ) mine sweeper based out of CFB Esquimalt
HMCS Oriole ( KC 480 ) | HMCS Oriole ( KC 480 ) sail training ship based out of CFB Esquimalt
As of July 2009, CFB Esquimalt services the following ships assigned to Canadian Pacific Fleet
CFB Esquimalt contains several recognized and classified federal heritage buildings on the Register of the Government of Canada Heritage Buildings.
CFB and comprises
LFWA comprises three Reserve Force Brigade Groups, one Regular Force Mechanized Brigade Group, one Area Support Group, Western Area Training Centre and CFB Suffield.
The formation comprises a HQ in Ottawa, ON, and four subordinate units: 1 Military Police Regiment ( MP Regt ) with HQ located in at CFB Edmonton, 2 MP Regt with HQ located in Toronto, ON, 3 MP Regt with HQ in Sackville, NS and 5 MP Regt with HQ at CFB Valcartier.
The formation comprises a HQ at CFB Winnipeg, and three subordinate units: 1 Military Police Squadron ( MP Sqn ) with HQ in Cold Lake, 2 MP Sqn with HQ at CFB Trenton, and 3 MP Sqn with HQ at CFB Greenwood.
CFB and facilities
Major military facilities supported by CFB Kingston include Fort Frontenac, located on the site of the original fort, and the Royal Military College of Canada.
Thereafter, all of the base's airfield facilities were either demolished or sold, and CFB North Bay became the only air base in Canada not to have any military flying whatsoever.
As well as loss of the airfield following the departure of 414 Squadron, during the mid to late 1990s the federal government embarked on the wholesale demolition of CFB North Bay's non-airfield facilities, and implemented massive reductions of base civilian and military personnel.
The military facilities consisting of Camp Borden and RCAF Station Borden were grouped under a new name, Canadian Forces Base Borden ( CFB Borden ).
In a 1990s reorganization of the Canadian Forces following the end of the Cold War, CFB Borden's air force training facilities were grouped under the name 16 Wing Borden.
In addition to these specific environmental element commands, CFB Borden houses a variety of other purple trades training facilities and headquarters within the Canadian Forces, including a fire-fighting school, Military Police ( MP ) school, a chaplaincy school, the Canadian Forces Recruiting Group, medical, dental and language schools, and supports local cadet and reserve units.
In August 2010, the Canadian department of Defence announced a C $ 209 million series of projects to construct new facilities, and upgrade existing facilities, at CFB Borden.
CFB Kingston was placed under Training Command and was responsible for providing a training facilities and support services to its integral units and lodger units.
Several of the facilities on active Canadian Forces Bases, such as CFB Borden and CFB Valcartier, remain in government control.
Following a base rationalization program in the mid-1990s, the Canadian Forces closed CFB Shearwater as a separate formation and realigned the property's various facilities into CFB Halifax.
* Shearwater Jetty, the former CFB Shearwater Annex, which provides dock facilities in support of Fleet Diving Unit Atlantic and MARLANT warships.
Base rationalization and defence budget cutbacks for the Canadian Forces during the mid-1990s saw a largely administrative move when the formation CFB Shearwater stood down and the facilities transferred to the formation CFB Halifax and aircraft operations becoming the responsibility of newly formed 12 Wing.
Current operations at Shearwater are administratively and operationally part of CFB Halifax and revolve around two functionally separate facilities:
* adjunct facilities formerly aligned with CFB Shearwater such as the Hartlen Point Golf Course are now attached to CFB Halifax
The base also houses 430 Tactical Helicopter Squadron, 5 Service Battalion ( which also provides services from ASU Saint-Jean and CFB Montreal ), CI SQFT ( Land Force Quebec Area Training Centre ), in addition to providing training facilities for most Quebec-based reserve units.
The former U. S. facilities were redesignated CFB Goose Bay ( the second time this facility name has been used ).
DRES was renamed Canadian Forces Base Suffield ( CFB Suffield ), and new base housing and support facilities were constructed for the British Army and Canadian Forces personnel, including refurbishing the community at Ralston.
It was announced in the 1996 federal budget that CFB Calgary would be closed in 1998 as part of a policy to close various Canadian Forces bases to consolidate units into fewer facilities.
CFB and including
Soldiers at CFB Petawawa have been involved in many operations throughout the world including tours in Afghanistan and Bosnia.
Beginning in the 1970s, CFB Shearwater began hosting an Armed Forces Day every fall, typically on the weekend following Labour Day, and included an air show where the long and wide runways at Shearwater hosted some of the largest aircraft in the world, including the U. S. Air Force's C-5 Galaxy transport planes and B-52 Stratofortress bombers.
Located at CFB Suffield, DRDC Suffield is home to the Chemical / Biological Forensic Research Lab, and a host of other CB defence research labs, including Canada's small scale facility for the production of Schedule 1 substances permitted under the Chemical Weapons Convention.
* Testing of Unregistered US Military Herbicides, including Agent Orange, at CFB Gagetown Ex Gratia Payments Order
Van Gastel had purchased four decommissioned Canadian Forces bases, including CFB Clinton, CFS Armstrong, CFS Foymount and CFS Ramore.
* JRCC Halifax, based at the CFB Halifax naval base in Nova Scotia, is responsible for the Halifax Search and Rescue Region, covering more than 4, 700, 000 square kilometres from Quebec City to the Eastern Arctic, including all four Atlantic provinces.
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