{"id":10180,"date":"2011-07-07T11:44:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T15:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10180"},"modified":"2019-04-23T14:03:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T18:03:16","slug":"the-end-of-canadas-combat-deployment-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/07\/the-end-of-canadas-combat-deployment-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of Canada&#8217;s combat deployment in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2011\/07\/07\/canadas-war-in-afghanistan-is-over\/\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Fisher<\/a> reports on the handover ceremony:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Canada\u2019s first war in more than half a century ended at 11:18 a.m. local time Thursday, about 300 metres away from where the first Canadian combat troops set foot in Kandahar on Jan. 19, 2002.<\/p>\n<p>The seventh and last Canadian to command Task Force Kandahar, Brig.-Gen. Dean Milner, signed over responsibility for Canada\u2019s battle space to Col. Todd Wood of the 1st Stryker Combat Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, as NATO\u2019s senior officer in the south, U.S. Army Maj.-Gen. James Terry, presided.<\/p>\n<p>Milner repeatedly returned to the close friendships he had forged with Afghan security forces during a sometimes emotional address at the \u201ctransfer of authority\u201d parade. In particular, he singled out his Afghan partner, Brig.-Gen. Ahmed Habibi for \u201cleading from the front.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Fisher reports on the handover ceremony: Canada\u2019s first war in more than half a century ended at 11:18 a.m. local time Thursday, about 300 metres away from where the first Canadian combat troops set foot in Kandahar on Jan. 19, 2002. The seventh and last Canadian to command Task Force Kandahar, Brig.-Gen. Dean Milner, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,13],"tags":[218,31,448],"class_list":["post-10180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-military","category-usa","tag-afghanistan","tag-army","tag-canadianforces"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2Ec","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48014,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10180\/revisions\/48014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}