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Colours Presentation 

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Major Saucier then requests permission of his Excellency to proceed with the traditional march-past. Catching his aides and security chief completely by surprise, his Excellency invited both  Col (H) Daigle (left) and Col Mattews (right) to share the dais with him  for the traditional march past and salute, a  extremely rare if not unique royal gesture underlining to all, the high regard His Excellency had for these two fine Gentlemen.

 

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You can bet that the Squadron had the sharpest march past in the history of the Air force, when in one swoop, we could not only pay our compliments to our Commander-in-Chief, his Excellency, the Governor General, but to our first ever Honourary Colonel, Col (H) George Daigle and the Commander of the Desert Cats, and former CO of 439 Squadron, Col Don Mattews.

 

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