Canadian Armed Forces

Captain (Ret'd) Andrew Webb has a tiny 30-year-old memento from the most awful thing he's ever witnessed – and his proudest military accomplishment - finding an abandoned children's hospital and rescuing more than 200 children in Fojnica, Bosnia during the Yugoslav wars. Webb was in Bosnia with the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) when “the whole country was in anarchy. We were trying to keep the peace in an area with no peace.”

Alex Grant, raised in Pincourt, Quebec, enrolled in the Canadian Armed Forces in 1981. He attended Royal Roads Military College, graduating in 1986 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics and Oceanography. Following Navy training, he completed a two-year foreign posting at the Integrated Undersea Surveillance System's (IUSS) Naval Facility Whidbey Island, Washington.