Arty Sigs.
A large part of the training in Artillery units was made up of this type of exercises. My unit 2Fd, was in the same armoury as RCH on the slopes of Mount Royal. We would often conduct command post exercises in Mount Royal Park.
In the Artillery there is a trade called the “Driver Sig”. These are the guys who drive the Command posts and the OP parties; and they would also be operating the radios at the same time. They do it this way because the different call signs must be on net even during moves in case there is a need for a quick action. When reservists were first send on UN missions in the Middle East, I think that Artillery Driver Sigs were much in demand. They were the only trade in my unit that got to deploy on these missions. One of the Canadians killed in Afghanistan on the 22nd of April this year, was a reservist from 15th Fd in BC by the name of Bombardier Myles Mansell. Most likely he would have been a Driver Sig.
The strangest deployment of 2Fd’s CP’S and sigs was when the LPGA was played in Montreal. They provided all of the coms for the LPGA officials and the media.
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