FOB Braun MB 23 Feb, 2011.Exercise NORTHERN BISON.FOB Braun – In amongst all the equipment for the Arctic Response Company Group flies the Saskatchewan Flag, which was brought on Exercise NORTHERN BISON by Saskatchewan personnel..Exercise NORTHERN BISON 11 is the ambitious culmination of a three year process to stand-up and train an Arctic Response Company Group (ARCG) comprised of 38 Canadian Brigade Group reserve soldiers..This year is the most ambitious training plan to date. Members from the 2 PPCLI Support Company will leave Churchill, Manitoba on the 17 of February 2011 and journey to Nunalla, Manitoba. Once there, they will set up a Forward Operating Base (FOB), including a hospital. A few days later, the ARCG will head out from Churchill and join up with 2 PPCLI at FOB Nunalla, renamed FOB Braun after Corporal David Braun who was killed on Task Force 3-06. At the FOB, they will build snow shelters, conduct firing on the range and receive further geographical knowledge from both 1 and 4 Canadian Ranger Patrol Group (CRPG). On the 24th, the ARCG will strike camp and head to Arviat, Nunavut, another 150 kilometres away. 2 PPCLI will return to Churchill..LG2011-0294.Photo By: Corporal Bill Gomm.© 2011, DND/MDN, Canada..

FOB Braun MB 23 Feb, 2011.Exercise NORTHERN BISON.FOB Braun – In amongst all the equipment for the Arctic Response Company Group flies the Saskatchewan Flag, which was brought on Exercise NORTHERN BISON by Saskatchewan personnel..Exercise NORTHERN BISON 11 is the ambitious culmination of a three year process to stand-up and train an Arctic Response Company Group (ARCG) comprised of 38 Canadian Brigade Group reserve soldiers..This year is the most ambitious training plan to date. Members from the 2 PPCLI Support Company will leave Churchill, Manitoba on the 17 of February 2011 and journey to Nunalla, Manitoba. Once there, they will set up a Forward Operating Base (FOB), including a hospital. A few days later, the ARCG will head out from Churchill and join up with 2 PPCLI at FOB Nunalla, renamed FOB Braun after Corporal David Braun who was killed on Task Force 3-06. At the FOB, they will build snow shelters, conduct firing on the range and receive further geographical knowledge from both 1 and 4 Canadian Ranger Patrol Group (CRPG). On the 24th, the ARCG will strike camp and head to Arviat, Nunavut, another 150 kilometres away. 2 PPCLI will return to Churchill..LG2011-0291.Photo By: Corporal Bill Gomm.© 2011, DND/MDN, Canada..