This past August I was a guest of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and allowed a close-up look at a portion of this year’s Operation Nanook in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, For those who don’t know, Rankin Inlet is a forward operating location (FOL) of the CAF located about 470 km north of Churchill, Manitoba, on the north north-west shore of Hudson Bay. Operation Nanook is an annual operation that takes place in Canada’s north to assert sovereignty and provide rigourous training for CAF personnel. This year, Op Nanook was divided into two locations: Labrador which held sovereignty operations, and Rankin Inlet which held northern training ops and an emergency preparedness exercise. It is the second, Rankin Inlet, to which I was given a quick overview during 23rd & 24th August as part of a media excursion and on behalf of Esprit de Corps magazine.
Now, Esprit de Corps is printing my observations over two issues of the magazine (the first in Vol. 24 Issue 9 just out, the second in the following issue) so I would suggest you pick up a copy and have a read. However, do to space limitations there has been some limited editing in the magazine which, while not required for regular readers of the magazine, may be of interest to those who don’t know what Joint Task Force North is or does or may need some more detailed explanation of some of the things I saw. To that end, I’m making available the entire story here or use this link http://www.richardlawrencephotography.ca/operation-nanook-2017/
To just see all the pictures I took, CLICK HERE
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