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Canadian Airborne Regiment
Régiment aéroporté canadien(French)
Cap badge
Active
8 April 1968 – 1 September 1995
Country
Canada
Branch
Force Mobile Command
Type
Airborne forces
Role
Parachute infantry
Size
Approx. 600 members
Part of
Royal Canadian Infantry Corps
Garrison/HQ
CFB Griesbach (1968–1977)
CFB Petawawa (1977–1995)
Motto(s)
Ex cœlis (Latin for 'from the sky')
Colors
Maroon beret
March
"The Longest Day"
Battle honours
Normandy Landing
Dives Crossing
The Rhine
Monte Camino
Monte La Difensa–Monte Remetanea
Monte Majo
Advance to the Tiber
Anzio
Rome
Southern France
Ardennes
North-West Europe, 1944-45
Military unit
The Canadian Airborne Regiment (French: Régiment aéroporté canadien) was a Canadian Forces formation created on April 8, 1968. It was not an administrative regiment in the commonly accepted British Commonwealth sense, but rather a tactical formation manned from other regiments and branches. It was disbanded in 1995 after the Somalia affair.[1]
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