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Major Mac Culloch expresses his pleasure in his career with the military and how taking the uniform off was the hardest part.
Wayne Mac Culloch
Le Major Wayne Mac Culloch est né en 1953 au Cap Breton et il a grandi au Québec. À 18 ans, il a fréquenté le Collège royal militaire pour ensuite s’enrôler en 1968, à titre d’ingénieur militaire. M. Mac Culloch a été déployé trois fois en Bosnie et une fois en Haïti. Il a pris sa retraite après 41 ans de service. Il a ensuite travaillé avec le Ministère de la Défense nationale. Depuis 2004, M. Mac Culloch est un bénévole dévoué pour présenter le “Module de la paix” avec le programme Rencontres du Canada, partageant avec les jeunes l’importance du service et du sacrifice.
Transcription
I had a tremendous career. I had such a variety of different sets of circumstances. I was quite content to remain a major. I was well treated and given a lot of freedom of action. General officers would search me out and give me problems to solve which were challenging and usually pretty unique and I enjoyed that. The hardest part for me was actually taking the uniform off. After forty plus years in uniform I had managed to accumulate enough injuries that I no longer met the universality of service so I was being medically released. We had not smoothed the transition as much as we have today and so it was a little bit more difficult to take the uniform off and try to figure out how to colour coordinate something which was a bit of a challenge to be frank. But on the whole my career was filled with challenging situations which I enjoyed. I never felt that I was given more than I could handle and it was always very rewarding to me personally to be able to serve with such a dedicated group of professionals.