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  • She joined the military in 1986, three years before Canada allowed women in combat roles.

    Training as a combat engineer – a role in which soldiers clear bombs and erect and destroy battlefield structures – she rose quickly through the ranks, shattering preconceptions about women warriors.

    She went on to become the first woman to lead a Canadian combat unit, deploying to Afghanistan where she narrowly avoided a suicide bomber as well as an improvised explosive device that mangled a vehicle in her convoy.

    Carignan has also served in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Syria, led NATO’s training mission in Iraq from 2019 to 2020, and commanded the 2nd Canadian Division – the military’s largest regiment with more than 10,000 troops.

    About 4 or 5 strong titles in there but let’s use “First woman” instead.







  • Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.detoMemes@lemmy.mlThis is the way
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    7 months ago

    Erwin routinely relocated animals from areas that had high human interaction to conservation or animal refugee. He never used tranquilizes while showing the animals of left alone, were no threat.

    The one that “got him” only got him because he didn’t believe in harming animals and he could have easily survived it.