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Canadian Air Task Force Deployed to MINUSMA in Mali

9 August 2018

The Royal Canadian Armed Forces has deployed an Air Task Force (ATF) to Gao to support the operations of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) with aeromedical evacuations while building the Mission's transport and logistics capacities. Dubbed Operation PRESENCE, the ATF unit consists of 250 soldiers, sailors, air women and men and includes three CH-147F Chinook and five armed CH-146 Griffon helicopters.
Members of the Canadian medical team protect themselves from flying debris as a helicopter takes off during a medical evacuation exercise.

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