Lt.-Col. Jason Guiney knew he had a lot to offer when he was appointed commander of the Joint Task Force Ukraine.
A veteran of four operational deployments – to East Africa with the United Nations in 1999, Haiti in 2004, Pakistan in 2005, and Afghanistan in 2008-2009 – Lt.-Col. Guiney brought a wealth of experience to his new job.
He commands about 180 Canadian soldiers stationed in western Ukraine – many veterans of the war in Afghanistan and other international deployemnts.
Their task is to train Ukrainian soldiers to take on the Russian-backed rebels if the bloody civil war in eastern Ukraine …read more
Source: Radio Canada International
