Change of Command - CEFCOM

[frank1515]

Looks like LGen Beare gets to drive the bus for a while!

OTTAWA — The Commander of Canadian Expeditionary Force Command, Lieutenant-General Marc Lessard, will relinquish command to Lieutenant-General Stuart Beare during a change of command ceremony on Thursday. The Chief of the Defence Staff, General Walter Natynczyk, will preside over the ceremony, which will also be attended by the Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence, and the Honourable Julian Fantino, Associate Minister of National Defence.

Details of the ceremony are as follows:

When: Thursday, September 1 at 11:00 a.m.
Where: Cartier Square Drill Hall, 2 Queen Elizabeth Drive, Ottawa
There will be a brief media availability following the ceremony, during which time the new Commander of Canadian Expeditionary Force Command, Lieutenant-General Beare, will be available to take questions from the media.

Media wishing to attend are requested to pre-register no later than 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, August 31, 2011, by contacting Captain Jennifer Stadnyk, Canadian Expeditionary Force Command (CEFCOM) Public Affairs, at 613-993-6250.

Media should arrive at the Cartier Square Drill Hall no later than 10:30 a.m. on September 1, and will be required to show their media credentials.

Source: http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/news-nouvelles/news-nouvelles-eng.asp?id=3913

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[The Bread Guy]

And it's official....

Lieutenant-General Stuart Beare assumed the duties of Commander of Canadian Expeditionary Force Command (CEFCOM) from Lieutenant-General Marc Lessard this morning, in a ceremony held at the Cartier Square Drill Hall. The change of command ceremony was attended by the Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence, and the Honourable Julian Fantino, Associate Minister of National Defence. General Walt Natynczyk, Chief of the Defence Staff, was the presiding officer.

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“Over the past two years, CEFCOM has deployed and supported thousands of Canadian Forces personnel on international operations,” said Lieutenant-General Lessard. “We conducted relief operations in Haiti immediately after the devastating earthquake in January 2010; transitioned in Afghanistan to the training mission centred on Kabul; evacuated Canadians from Libya; and are still protecting civilians from Gadhafi forces in Libya — all the while maintaining Canada's contribution to more than a dozen United Nations and NATO peace-support missions around the world. I specifically wish to emphasize our counterinsurgency operations in Kandahar, which ended in July this year. Our Canadian Forces men and women completed a complex combat mission in tough circumstances, markedly improving security, governance and development in a key region of Afghanistan. I’m proud of our people, and honoured to have had the opportunity to lead CEFCOM through interesting times.”

Lieutenant-General Lessard accepted command of CEFCOM in May 2009 and has overseen the Canadian Forces mission in Afghanistan through its transition from combat operations in the south to the training mission in the north. He led the evolution of Canadian Forces humanitarian operations that could be seen in the assistance delivered to Haiti in January 2010, after earthquakes hit the country. He also oversaw Canadian Forces missions around the world ranging from peace-support operations to the maritime and air campaigns around and over Libya. CEFCOM task forces operate in multinational coalitions under NATO or the United Nations, often as part of a Canadian “whole of government” team.

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