Interviewer: And another operation that you
were involved with was security during the
Olympics as well as the Manitoba flood.
Tell us about those.
So for the Olympics, 2nd Battalion was
tasked for more of the outer part security
so we were patrolling the mountains in
case of any domestic or I guess maybe
international threats that could have,
you know, were against the Olympics in
such a big venue with people because
the high number of bodies there could
be a threatened area like a primary
for a terrorist attack to happen.
So our job was to patrol the mountains if
anybody was coming in that way and
just making sure that there was no threat
up there that could get in within the city.
There wasn’t anything.
It was just a lot more like camping and
patrolling in snowmobiles and walking
and stuff like that. But it was just more
the “what if” factor so that’s why
we had to be there.
And for the floods I don’t’ know because
they have had multiple floods now but
back then I think when those 2011 floods
hit I think they said it was the worst
that they've ever had I’m not too sure
but it was really bad.
I remember like constantly our job was
just to fill sandbags and whenever we
thought we were going to get a break
another helicopter was coming in and just
dumping sandbags so as soon as you finish
your last one you’re like oh man here
comes another load of sandbags so it was
just constantly filling. And within the city
of Brandon itself like I remember driving
down the highway, there’s a section of
road that crosses just over the river and it
was so bad that the water was getting high.
They had to have big giant Hesco type
sandbags and they were probably as high as
this roof and the water was just like almost
breaching over top of it.
So you were driving in this like in these
giant Hescos and the water was just right
there and making you think as you
are driving by, "Man if this broke,
woo, it would be bad!"