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This article was published 10/01/2022 (1575 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Members of the 435 Transport and Rescue Squadron made use of the frigid weather to conduct some routine training over Brandon on Monday.
The Royal Canadian Air Force unit could be seen parachuting supplies out of a C-130 Hercules near the Brandon Municipal Airport in the late morning and early afternoon, using rescue smoke grenades on the ground to guide their aim.
Communications officer Gloria Kelly told the Sun that while many Manitobans were taking shelter with temperatures hovering around -20 C on Monday, these kinds of conditions are ideal for training purposes, since the unit is charged with conducting search-and-rescue missions across the entire country.
“This is the kind of weather that we really need to train in because if you get a call out in the far north in the dead of winter, you need to be able to function in the conditions that we’ve been having here for the past week,” Kelly said Monday afternoon.
The 435 Transport and Rescue Squadron operates out of 17 Wing Winnipeg.
» The Brandon Sun
