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A MAJOR ACHIEVEMENT FOR ROCKLAND’S KORTELAINEN CLAN
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to join the Canadian Armed Forces. She’d just graduated high school then, but her chances of continuing on with post- secondary education at an English college seemed slim at the time. She and her family MJWFEJO.POUSÊBM BTQBSUPGUIFDPTNPQP - MJUBODJUZT1PSUVHVFTFDPNNVOJUZ BOE#JMM UIFOFXMBOHVBHFMBXPGUIFUIFO1BSUJ Québécois provincial government, had shut down most of the English-language schools in Québec. .PWJOHBXBZGSPNIPNFUPTUVEZJOBOP - ther province wasn’t a viable option for her then, which led her to consider the forces. The physical training and discipline appealed to her as a high school athlete in running and swimming. “I figured I could do this,” she said. “And I was always adventurous. Always had to be different.” 4IFUVSOFEXIJMFVOEFSHPJOHIFSCBTJD USBJOJOHBU$'#$PSOXBMMJTJO%JHCZ /PWB Scotia, and learned her first lesson about
For Diana Kortelainen, the day was a major accomplishment for her, both literally and figuratively. After almost four years in the Canadian Armed Forces, the Rockland native had to HJWFVQIFSSBOLBTBDBQUBJO#FDBVTFBTPG +VOF TIFJTOPX.BKPS%JBOB,PSUFMBJOFO following a “homebound” official inspection and promotion ceremony presided over by #SJHBEJFS(FOFSBM3JDL(PPEZFBS BTFOJPS SBOLJOHPGàDFSJOUIF%FQBSUNFOUPG/BUJPOBM %FGFODF %/% “I was quite taken aback when I heard that the general was going to come here,” TBJE,PSUBMBJOFO EVSJOHBQIPOFJOUFSWJFX the evening before her official promotion ceremony. 6OEFSOPSNBMDJSDVNTUBODFT BOPGàDJBM promotion ceremony takes place at a Cana- dian Armed Forces base or other locations, and comes complete with a gathering of members of the person’s unit, more than one higher-ranking officer, and other special HVFTUT#VUXJUI UIF$07*%QBOEFNJD keeping almost everyone under lockdown, a standard military promotion ceremony is just not possible. 4P UIF%/%EFDJEFE UPTFUBTJEFQSP - tocol and authorized a special “at home” QSPNPUJPODFSFNPOZGPS$BQUBJOOPX.BZPS ,PSUFMBJOFO CPUIUPDPOàSNIFSOFXSBOL and also ensure that she received the reco- gnition she deserved for her achievements during her 37 years in the Forces. “This is a celebration of a major accomplishment,” TBJE#SJHBEJFS(FOFSBM(PPEZFBS ,PSUFMBJOFOTQSPNPUJPOXBTXJUOFTTFE CZIFSIVTCBOE &TB,PSUFMBJOFO BGPSNFS NFNCFSPGUIF'JOOJTI%FGFODF'PSDF XIP transferred over to the Canadian Armed Forces after the two of them were married. Also present for the event were their children, along with other family members, and several PG.BKPS,PSUFMBJOFOT GFMMPXPGàDFSTBOE OPODPNNJTTJPOFEQFSTPOOFMGSPNUIF%/% financial services branch in Ottawa, where she works. Happy to serve i*UKVTUTFFNFEUIFXBZUPHP uTBJE.BKPS ,PSUFMBJOFO SFHBSEJOHIFSEFDJTJPO BU
The Kortelainen clan and the newly-promoted Major Diana Kortelainen (third from the right) gathered for a family photo following her official promotion ceremony at home June 12. —photo Gregg Chamberlain
in Alberta with the 42nd Radar Squadron, BTTJHOFEUPUIF%JTUBOU&BSMZ8BSOJOH %&8 Line of radar monitoring posts that oversaw the Arctic air space between Canada and Russia. Then she switched trades to learn finance and administration, eventually ending VQBTTJHOFE UP%/%PGàDF JO0UUBXB *O between, she also did her turn at overseas postings, which is how she met her future IVTCBOEXIFOIJT'JOOJTI%FGFODF'PSDF VOJUBOEIFS$"'VOJUXFSFCPUIEPJOH6OJUFE /BUJPOTQFBDFLFFQJOHEVUZPO UIF(PMBO Heights between Israel and Syria.
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how things may be different in other parts of Canada. In Québec, the legal drinking age UIFOXBT*O/PWB4DPUJB UIFMFHBMBHF was 19, which meant she couldn’t celebrate IFSUICJSUIEBZXJUIIFSàSTUMFHBMCFFS "GUFSCBTJD ,PSUFMBJOFOXFOUJOUPUSBEFT training as an air defence technician, lear- ning to watch through a spotter scope and relay to the pilot where an enemy plane was located and otherwise monitor airspace. i*UXBTPOFPGUIPTFUZQFPG$PME8BSUZQF of jobs.” 4IFTQFOUUISFFZFBSTBU$'#$PME-BLF Brigadier General Rick Goodyear officiated at the June 12 promotion ceremony in Rockland for Captain-now-Major Diana Kortelainen. —photo Gregg Chamberlain
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