Hmmm... let's call it "Operation Just Cause Dubya said so"...
http://www.CanadianAlly.com/ War on Terror Canada has deployed 16,000 personnel and 20 Warships to Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf since 2001. Canadian transport and patrol aircraft have flown more than 3,500 sorties from Camp Mirage - Canada's Persian Gulf air base. Canada has increased its troop presence in Afghanistan to 2,300. Canada has suffered 12 Dead and 44 wounded/injured personnel. Current Operations More than 2,700 Canadian soldiers, sailors and Air Force personnel are deployed overseas on operational missions. On any given day, about 8,000 Canadian Forces members - one third of our deployable force - are preparing for, engaged in or returning from an overseas mission. Since 1947, the CF has completed 72 international operations. That figure does not include current operations, or the many CF operations carried out in Canada. Here is a list of all current CF operations: Canadian contribution to Operation ENDURING FREEDOM OP ARCHER Afghanistan Arrangement for the Transfer of Detainees Between the Canadian Forces and the Ministry of Defence of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan 2,300 OP FOUNDATION Tampa, Florida / Bahrain 7 United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) OP IOLAUS Iraq 1 NATO Stabilization Force (SFOR) OP BRONZE Bosnia-Herzegovina 10 European Union Force (EUFOR) OP BOREAS Bosnia-Herzegovina 12 CF Contribution to the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti Headquarters (MINUSTAH HQ) OP HAMLET Haiti 6 United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) OP GLADIUS Golan Heights 4 Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) OP CALUMET Sinai 31 UN Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) OP JADE Jerusalem 8 OP PROTEUS Jerusalem 5 UN Forces in Cyprus (UNFICYP) OP SNOWGOOSE Cyprus 1 UN Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) OP CROCODILE Democratic Republic of the Congo 9 CF Operations in Sudan OP SAFARI United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) 32 OP AUGURAL Darfur: Western Sudan (African Union) 15 International Military Advisory Training Team (IMATT) OP SCULPTURE Sierra Leone 11 Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 - Exercise BRILLIANT MARINER 2006, Exercise STEADFAST JAGUAR 2006 OP SEXTANT 309 Total 2,757 _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
