Stormont Dundas & Glengarry Highlanders

      The following was exerted from another message I sent out regarding 
the storm:

I have heard a lot of stories of the Ice Storm.  I  may have been one of
the last persons to get power in Cornwall as two poles broke in just
behind our house.  Unfortunately no truck can get to these poles
because  the bush and tall trees behind us has not been kept clear for them 
to get back there and the houses all have car ports.  I was out from
Tuesday to early Monday morning.  Lucky for us I have a wood stove in
our basement and a brother in law who has gas heat and hot water.  We
went there for showers.  He also hooked up a car blower and a car
headlight for the blowing of the heat around and light for the room.  
While my family  fended for themselves with the wood stove I was at
the  Cornwall Armoury doing my second job as an Officer in the Canadian
Forces Army Reserve. 

The Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders were called out on 
Friday 9 Jan 98 to help with the clean up.  We were the major unit for 
Cornwall, South Stormont, and South Dundas. We had under our 
command one company each from the Armour and Artilliery Schools 
from CFB Gagetown and 4RCR from London along with 2 FLG from
CFB  Bordon (FLG=Forward Logistical Group).  Other soldiers attached made
our  Regiment look more like a Bridge Group than an Infantry Battalion.  We
had over 500 soldiers under our Commanding Officers Command along with
air support of Griffin Helicopters from CFB Trenton.  We just got our
new Commanding Officer on 5 Jan 98 who walked into a full fledged call
out without ever knowing how well his new unit was operationally ready
for it.  This was the biggest build up of troops under the SD&G
Highlanders command since the Second World War. 

Operation Recuperation was ended in our area of operation on 23 Jan 98.