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Watch: Inside a northern military training exercise

A Chinook helicopter during an Operation Nanook military training exercise in March 2021
A Canadian Chinook helicopter during an Operation Nanook military training exercise in March 2021. Meaghan Brackenbury/Cabin Radio

This year’s Operation Nanook-Nunalivut, an annual northern military training exercise, involved 150 personnel over nine days in activities scaled down by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Joint Task Force North divers, pilots and aircraft engineers, alongside members of the Canadian Rangers’ Wiilideh Patrol, undertook a variety of exercises and activities – including trying to locate a sunken trawler.

Cabin Radio’s Meaghan Brackenbury hopped on a helicopter to follow along.

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