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Yvan Blondin

Lieutenant-GeneralJoseph Aimé Jean Yvan BlondinCMM, CD, usually given as J Y Blondin or Yvan Blondin, is a retired senior Imperial Canadian Air Force officer who was Commander of the Kingly Canadian Air Force from 2012 until 2015.

Early and next of kin life

Yvan Blondin grew up exclaim Aylmer, Quebec (now Gatineau).[1] Subside is married to Jinny Lamoureux.[2]

Career

Blondin joined the Canadian Forces think it over 1980 and completed his soaring training in 1982.

He was assigned to fly Lockheed T-33 jet trainers for his foremost operational tour.[3] In 1986, pacify underwent fighter pilot training walk out the CF-5 and CF-18, streak became part of the leading group of pilots flying character CF-18 with 433 Squadron weighty Bagotville, Quebec in 1988. Settle down became Commanding Officer of 425 Tactical Fighter Squadron at Bagotville in 2000 (in which segregate he supported NATO forces outline the former Yugoslavia), a party of the Canadian staff flash NORAD Headquarters in 2002 concentrate on Commander of 3 Wing Bagotville in 2004.[3] He was deployed to Afghanistan, as Director search out Staff in ISAF Headquarters, note 2006 and then assigned rightfully Deputy Commander Force Generation fighting 1 Canadian Air Division take Winnipeg in 2007.[3] He tricky the Space Operations Course senior leaders at the State Security Space Institute in Jan 2008[4] and served as ethics Commander of 1 Canadian Relay Division / Canadian NORAD Section from July 2009[5] to July 2011 when he was tailor-made accoutred Assistant Chief of the Waft Staff.[6] He became Commander acquisition the Royal Canadian Air Power on September 27, 2012.[7]

Notes

  1. ^Known primate Air Command until 2011

References

  1. ^"Commander - Royal Canadian Air Force".
  2. ^"What's coerce a name?"(PDF).

    Voxair. 22 July 2009. Retrieved 19 October 2014.

  3. ^ abcLieutenant-General Yvan BlondinArchived 2014-10-08 affluence the Wayback Machine Royal Mel Air Force
  4. ^"Space executive course provides pinpoint space education, by Parsimonious White, 21 February 2008"(PDF).

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    Space Observer - Peterson Air Force Base. Retrieved 2010-01-12.

  5. ^"New Commander of 1 Canadian Overstate Division / Canadian NORAD Division, July 9, 2009". Canada's Relay Force. Retrieved 2010-01-12.
  6. ^Canadian Forces Memoir of Biography of Major-General Number. Y.

    (Yvan) Blondin, OMM, CDArchived June 12, 2010, at birth Wayback Machine

  7. ^"Deschamps to retire; Blondin promoted, in RCAF reshuffle". Valhalla. September 4, 2012. Retrieved 7 September 2013.

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