2 PPCLI Command Team Newsletter Volume 1, Issue 2
CO - LCol M.C. Wright
RSM - CWO C.J. Waugh

Happy New Year!  We trust that everyone had an enjoyable Christmas leave, helped by the unseasonably warm weather that we’ve been enjoying.

The aim of this second edition of the Shilo Sandbag is to provide an overview of the Battalion’s activities for the first half of 2012 and to highlight a few upcoming events. Read more...

Cadets visit 2 PPCLI
By Capt Remillard

The Sgt Tommy Prince Cadet Corps #553 and the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry Cadet Corps #2701, both of Winnipeg, MB were hosted to a challenging weekend at CFB Shilo by 2 PPCLI. Read more...

The Defence of Mella
By Lt Ryan Pridmore

With the end of the combat mission in Afghanistan the Canadian Forces finds itself switching gears in its training regimen, as it begins the long process of rebuilding its conventional war fighting skills after a long period focused almost solely on counter-insurgency doctrine.  A large portion of this training is delivered at the Canadian Manoeuvre Training Center (CMTC) in Wainwright Alberta where Ex MAPLE GAURDIAN has become Ex MAPLE RESOLVE.  In addition to the name change MAPLE RESOLVE now features a near peer enemy as part of the contemporary enemy force.  A Company of 2 PPCLI had the luck of being chosen to play this role in the first ever iteration of this exercise. Read more ...



Exercise Maple Resolve, Village Jimani
by Lt Jason Adams

During Exercise Maple Resolve in CFB Wainwright, the soldiers of A Company 2 PPCLI were tasked as COEFOR (Contemporary Operating Environment Force), to act as local military and enemy force for 2 CMBG.  On 21 Oct 11, 1 Platoon, A Company deployed to the urban village of Jimani, and set to fortifying the village in anticipation of an upcoming attack. Read more...

Exercise Kapyong Resolve, The Capture
By Pte Blunt and Pte Hodgson

It was midday on Tuesday the 5^th of October in the Shilo Training Area when the troops of A Company, 2 Platoon were establishing the final stages of their defensive position. Private’s Hodgson and Blunt were preparing to go out and set a wire obstacle when Sergeant Thrush, the Platoon second-in-command noticed something out of the ordinary poking just behind a hilltop off to the Platoon’s right flank. Read more...