Even At The Last Minute

Even when the call comes at the last minute, 3BAM Sunray Gilles Aubé is loathe to turn down a request that 3BAM fire a shot or two in support of some regimental function. We live rent free at CDN, so it makes good sense to bust a gut when the CO requests it. That's sort of what happened this

But somehow, despite only getting the request the day before, Sunray was still able to scrape up Gilles Pelletier, Michel Lepage, and Denis Dumas at the last minute in order to do the job. As a consequence, three of the lucky guests got to fire the Mk1 25-pdr gun that night after members of the regiment had spent the evening teaching them about and letting them get their hands on some of the cool equipment they use as part of their jobs.

The guests who got to shoot pose with the detachment.

Tues, Apr 15th when the regiment hosted an event organized by Canada Company. I was already bound to be there, in the service of Charles de Kovachich, the unit's outstanding Honourary Colonel, who had personally booked me at his own expense in order to get photos of the event for the guests to have as souvenirs. No mention of 3BAM in this, and in any case, Sunray had only come back from France a few days earlier where the previous week was spent repainting the guns we have as monuments at Juno Beach. But Sunray just isn't programmed to accept "no" for an answer or offer it as a reply so the shots got fired and the job got done. Ubique!

Bdr Morad Nemmaoui gave instruction on the C3 howitzer.

Not to steal anybody's thunder though, the success of this event was more owing to the participation of many members of the 2nd Field Regiment, including the DCO, Maj Sylvie Pelletier, 50 Bty BC Maj Chantal Berubé, and many junior members who ran the simulators or gave instruction on the C3 howitzer.

Once it was all over, it was up to the mess for drinks and a laugh or two and a jolly good time for all.



Ubique!

Gary Menten
Photographer, 3 BAM
Once a sergeant, 2RCA (long ago)