CFB Petawawa
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Canadian Forces Base Petawawa, commonly referred to as CFB Petawawa, is a Canadian Forces Base located in Petawawa, Ontario. It is operated as an army base by Canadian Forces Land Force Command.
History
Founded in 1904 as the Petawawa Military Camp, or Camp Petawawa, the base was created by the Department of Militia and Defence upon the purchase of 22,430 acres (91 km²) of mostly agricultural property from local residents.The first military aircraft flight in Canada took place at Camp Petawawa on July 31, 1909, when J.A.D. McCurdy and F.W. Baldwin flew the AEA Silver Dart in a demonstration for military officials.
Between December 1914 and May 1916, Camp Petawawa was used as an internment camp for 750 German and Austrian prisoners of war. From 1916 until the end of the First World War, the facility trained 10,767 Canadian troops for overseas service in Western Europe.
Camp Petawawa was heavily used during and after the Second World War and became the home base for the Canadian Airborne Regiment during the Cold War.
The facility was renamed CFB Petawawa following the February 1, 1968 unification of the Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Canadian Air Force and the Canadian Army to form the Canadian Armed Forces.
Current operations
The base supports Land Force Command (the Canadian Army) and is home to 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group. See Land Force Central Area for a partial list of units based at CFB Petawawa. 4,400 military personnel are employed at the base as well as nearly 1,000 civilians.
The base motto is, in the eastern Anishinaabe language, endazhe kinamandowa chimaganishak (or fully vocalised as endazhi-gikinoo'amawindowaa zhimaaganishag). The English translation is "training ground of the soldiers".
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