Integral Systems Technician (521)
Cfb Cold Lake (Alberta)
Member of 416 Tactical Fighter Squadron (TFS), a unit of the Royal Canadian Air Force which operated CF-18 Hornet fighter jets from CFB Cold Lake in Alberta, Canada.Held the rank of corporal and was employed as an avionics systems technician responsible for maintaining flight control systems, inertial navigation systems, compass systems, pitot-static systems, and maintenance monitoring systems which employed strain gauges and data recording devices.Duties included being part of an aircraft maintenance team that was responsible for first line servicing operations such as the launching and recovering of aircraft, marshalling, parking, towing, starting, refueling, cleaning and de-icing.Other duties included the manning of quick reaction alert (QRA) facilities to safeguard Canadian airspace. And various deployments to Europe, the United States, and Canada.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/416_Tactical_Fighter_Squadronhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFB_Cold_Lakehttps://www.canada.ca/en/air-force/corporate/wings/4-wing.html