#strongproudready

Feeling pretty stoked, completed a 2km and 2.5km so far today and getting ready to kayak. Staying #strongproudready for life in #canadianarmy (at Nova Scotia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBBCKNyD8gF/?igshid=1fc7kx7kongqa

Team: A team is a group of individuals that is formed together by joining forces in unification to achieve purposes and goals in their career field. While I was on my run I was thinking about my past as a team member in the #canadianarmedforces and my present as a housekeeper in the ER at #royalinlandhospital. My passion and love as a member of my countries military was like no other. It was one of my greatest blessings that I have felt within that type of companionship. #strongproudready It has taken myself over 13 years to find that same feeling of being on a team. My fellow employees in the ER in Kamloops at the Royal Inland Hospital have truly made me feel like I belonged there even if I am just a housekeeper. Being a housekeeper isn’t where I would picture myself but being a part of a great team is where I did picture myself to be a part of. Before and during my time in the military I was an extrovert. I would pastor people and give others life coaching tips. But after my military career was over I became an introvert. The transition to the civilian world was more difficult than I would of thought. As I was running I was also thinking about how being a part of a team can help ones #ptsd as well. Being a part of a great team then leaving it is a very difficult transition. There are healthy options such as getting a new family member in a dog, joining an open league sport team like basketball or a martial arts class or maybe even a CrossFit group to even running as a positive fitness habit then joining in on some friendly race events in your community. Being a part of a team means that you are a member which then gives you that strong feeling of belonging my companions. #team #lifecoach #running (at Kamloops, British Columbia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-25qT5BOxB/?igshid=oedqaxkmx8zc

From machine gunner to grenadier, I'll get the job done. ~ #5divsoldier #mightymaroonmachine #strongproudready #m203 ~ 📷 @braeden__williams (at CFB Gagetown)

Meet the world’s first female combat general, Col. Jennie Carignan. Photographed for @macleansmag at the Canadian Armed Forces College in Toronto. /// Later this month, the 47-year-old Carignan will be promoted to the rank of brigadier-general (a one-star general), earning the title of chief of staff of Army operations. Although there are other Canadian female generals, up to now they have risen from non-combatant disciplines such as intelligence, medicine or development aid. Carignan is the first woman in Canada—and so far as the Forces can determine, the first in the world—to rise to her rank from the combat arms trades. In the Canadian Army, women comprise just 2.4 per cent of regular force combat arms trades, compared to 14.8 per cent of the overall Army. Carignan is changing that statistic by increasing recruitment of women to combat roles, and she’s doing it her way, as a stereotype-defying mother of four. #canadianarmy #army #general #cafimagesfac #CAF #Strongproudready