Defence Team News | Putting the Reserve’s mettle to the test on Exercise STALWART GUARDIAN
Video / October 23 2025
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Spokespeople and supers:
Colonel Frank Lamie
Commander, 32 Canadian Brigade Group
Master Corporal Nathan Madigan
Brockville Rifles
UAV = Unmanned Aerial Vehicle/Drone
STALWART GUARDIAN 25 and exercises in the Reserve of similar scale contribute to national defence by ensuring that we can deploy and secure Canada's vital interests both at home and abroad. The focus of the exercise was to ensure the battle group operated in a simulated combat environment with the full spectrum of enablers from 32 Brigade, the Steadfast Brigade, and 33 Brigade, the Wolfpack Brigade. There's also been innovation on this exercise. Working with our Regular Force counterparts was the integration of artillery and UAV assets. It has been an incredible growth experience that we're going to continue to share lessons learned that we think will be critical to the future fight.
We have one of the only times in the Reserve training we have such a large scale exercise where we can exercise large scale elements up to the battalion level, company level and then it filters down to platoon and section level, and we are fortifying and defending a village for the primary training audience to eventually conduct their attack on.
As I watched the battle group attack earlier this morning at first light, I was struck by the fitness of our soldiers attacking the objective. Robust, fit, and resilient as you'd expect from your Canadian Army soldiers.