Major Amanda Maki has been a Canadian Forces member for nearly 25 years, having joined up straight out of high school at 17.

One of the country’s oldest air bases, CFB Winnipeg — which contains 17 Wing — opened on April 1, 1925. The commanding ...

After the ceremony, I head back to my shelter in the Canadian Air Wing lines at Kandahar Airfield ... I command the Chinook Flight of the Canadian Helicopter Force Afghanistan, Canada’s first ...