Canadian armed forces have discontinued a massive annual training exercise, which is watching about 1,500 military members and several small vehicle convoys running in Ontario on various highways.
was dubbed ‘Exercise stallwart guardian‘Members of the Canadian Army Reserve and vehicles started moving towards Garison Petawawa, about 170 km from the city Ottawa on Friday. The vehicle convoy was expected to continue throughout the day on Saturday.
“This is an important measure,” Colonel Frank Lammy, commander 32 Canadian Brigade Group Headquarters in Toronto, describing exercise, said.
“This is the consolidation of our annual training cycle from an army reserved perspective in the 4th Canadian division. These organizations will be placed together in a fake fighting environment, in a fake operating environment.”
Chief Warrant Officer and Brigade Sergeant-Major Margaret Station said the practice would allow members who have been on courses coming together in the last one year.
“This is a chance for them to improve those skills, improve them, and to lead the leaders in the field and at the extended time,” she said.
Lammy reported that Citinues must have also participated in 33 Canadian Brigade Group located in Ottawa. He said that the reservoir will be included in fighters, engineers, communication experts and support services personnel.
To go to Petavawa, several small convoys will be going on major corridors such as highways 401, 403, 407, 417 and Qav. Other connecting highways (7, 115 and others) will also be used. The reservoirs will travel through Toronto, Ottawa, Peterbaro, Sudbari, North Bay and other cities of Ontario.
Lammy said that the vehicle convoy is not expected to affect traffic.
“I would tell the drivers that we always respect the rules of law and road. We will be at or below the speed limit. You will see us in the right lane. We go in the convoy packets, so they are small groups of vehicles. So exercise is on a significant scale, they are all issued at different times,” they said.
“A perfect lane is no different from two or three transport trucks. You can see seven or eight or naval army vehicles.”
Canadian armed forces personnel said that weapons and ammunition are not being taken to the convoy.
“This is what we would call a dry exercise,” Lammy said.
“There will be no live round that would be moving on any highway from that perspective. Our artillery component will firing, but they are careful in training space.”
He said that training landscapes are being done on fence-off military properties and are not accessible to the public.
The reservoirs are ready to return to their domestic communities using the same route on August 23 and 24 in Ontario.
