Year-long deployments: Edmonton-based soldiers sharpening skills for Middle East, Ukraine, Latvia ops

Roughly 1,500 Edmonton-based soldiers are poised to deploy starting this summer to battle ISIS in the Middle East, train counterparts in Ukraine and support NATO in Latvia.
In preparation, they will gather May 10 to May 24 with about 5,000 soldiers, some of them foreign allies, at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright for Exercise Maple Resolve, the largest collective yearly training event the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) conducts.
It’s the culmination of year-long high readiness training for 1 C