{"id":1024,"date":"2012-03-29T21:04:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T03:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2012-03-29T21:06:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T03:06:17","slug":"jumping-into-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/?p=1024","title":{"rendered":"Jumping into retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jumping into retirement<\/h2>\n

Feb. 1, 2012<\/p>\n

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\"Related<\/a>MWO Ray Tanguay prepares to jump from a CH-146 Griffon helicopter near Josephburg, Alta., on Jan. 11, 2011. Photo courtesy of MWO Ray Tanguay.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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By Capt Geoff Dear<\/p>\n

The CH-146 Griffon isn\u2019t normally thought of as a time machine, but on Jan. 11, in Josephburg, Alta., a Griffon took Master Warrant Officer Ray Tanguay back 29 years.<\/p>\n

A young Ray Tanguay made his first parachute drop in 1983 while he was part of the Canadian Airborne Regiment armoured defence platoon. In January 2012, while \u00a0\u00a0lead flight engineer for 408 Tactical Helicopter (TH) Squadron, based in Edmonton, Alta., he \u00a0jumped into retirement on a similar note.<\/p>\n

MWO Tanguay, who worked as a flight engineer trade advisor at 408 Squadron, decided it was time to finalize his career as a Regular Force member of the Canadian Forces although he will continue serving as a reservist. \/\u00a0 more<\/a>…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jumping into retirement Feb. 1, 2012 MWO Ray Tanguay prepares to jump from a CH-146 Griffon helicopter near Josephburg, Alta., on Jan. 11, 2011. Photo courtesy of MWO Ray Tanguay. By Capt Geoff Dear The CH-146 Griffon isn\u2019t normally thought of as a time machine, but on Jan. 11, in Josephburg, Alta., a Griffon took Master Warrant Officer Ray Tanguay back 29 years. A young Ray Tanguay made his first parachute drop in 1983 while he was part of the Canadian Airborne Regiment armoured defence platoon. In January 2012, while…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-408-squadron-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}