Troops Returning Home from Haiti to be Welcomed by Associate Minister of National Defence

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Media Advisory MA–04.029 - August 13, 2004 CFB Gagetown -- The Honourable Mauril Bélanger, Associate Minister of National Defence, will welcome home approximately 60 soldiers on Monday, August 16 , 2004 at CFB Gagetown. This is one of the last returning flights of soldiers of Task Force Haiti under Operation HALO, Canada's contribution to the Mission des Nations-Unies pour la stabilisation en Haiti (United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti), or MINUSTAH. For more information on Operation HALO visit: http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/operations/halo/index_e.asp -30- EDITOR'S NOTE: The flight is scheduled to land at 2:20 p.m. at the Fredericton Airport, NB. Media will not be granted access on the apron, but will be permitted on the airport roof. Minister Bélanger, along with the Acting Assistant Chief of Land Staff Major-General Andrew Leslie will be present on the apron to greet the soldiers. The Associate Minister will then be available for interviews at the upstairs lounge. Minister Bélanger is expected to make an address to the soldiers and their families at the reception hall at 2 nd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment drill hall building D-15 located at CFB Gagetown. Media wishing to attend the arrival are asked to contact, CFB Gagetown Public Affairs Officer Captain Lena Angell at (506) 422-2000, ext. 2466 or cell (506) 447-9711 or Navy Lieutenant Sue Knight at (506) 422-2000 ext. 3634 or cell (506) 447-9056. For more information on the Associate Minister's visit, please contact Office of the Minister of National Defence at (613) 996-3100.

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Troops Returning Home from Haiti to be Welcomed by Associate Minister of National Defence

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