New Canadian Defense Minister Brings
Real World Experience to the Post
Yesterday’s NFL “Super Bowl” was all about defense. So it is only appropriate that we get to know the newly-appointed Canadian Minister of Defense. Impressive guy!
Please click on to this link and learn more about the new Canadian Minister of Defense, Harjit S. Sajjan, a Sikh who emigrated from India. Tough guy–Sajjan served in the Vancouver police department for 11 years, heralded for his service as a detective with the department’s gang crimes unit and as an organized-crime investigator. He kicks ass!
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Sajjan joined the Canadian army reserve, rising to the rank of Lt. Colonel. He was deployed overseas four times in the course of his career: once to Bosnia-Herzegovina and three times to Afghanistan.
In 2011, he became the first Sikh to command a Canadian Army reserve regiment when he was named commander of the British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught’s Own). He was recognized as “the best single Canadian intelligence asset” in the Kandahar theatre.
The Commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan’s southern provinces requested that Sajjan join the U.S. Command Team for a third deployment in 2010, where he served as Special Assistant to Major-General Jim Terry.
His religiously required facial hair prevents the use of regular military gas masks. Sajjan invented his own gas mask that worked with his beard, and patented it in 1996.