Rangers train on
The Canadian military will respond to a fake airplane crash as part of this year’s major sovereignty patrol in the North.
Canadian Forces Northern Area is sending a team of 14 Canadian regular Rangers and eight Ranger instructors to test their skills on a remote island in Nunavut, west of Ellesmere Island next month.
Dubbed Operation Kigliaqvik, the expedition is an annual show of Canada’s control over far-flung corners of the Arctic.
The team will travel by plane from Yellowknife to an abandoned weather station at Isachsen on Ellef Ringnes Island on March 31.
The simulated air crash exercise will mimic the wreck of a U.S. Air Force DC-3 plane that crashed on island in the past. Organizers say the event will test the armed forces’s search and rescue abilities in the High Arctic.
The exercise will take place on April 8, and the team will return April 15.
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