Mike Annis:
CLASS OF 1973
Listowel District High SchoolClass of 1973
Listowel, ON
Mike's Story
Life
I now live north of edmonton on a farm , my wife colleen who I met on my first tour to germany (shes canadian) raises ,shows and sells siberian huskys and flat coated retrievers (bendenkennels.com).we have about 40 dogs now. I work in k div hq in edmonton, last august our house burned down and we lost everything . the worst was the loss of our memories ,paintings and pictures from germany our furniture and all the plaques tophys and awards both Colleen and i have gathered in our military career.
in august this year i went to visit my ailing mother who lives in napanee in a nursing home then decided to visit the old home of listowel which i havent seen in 31 yrs. I went to the archives and looked at the yearbooks , i even remembered some of the names , took pictures of where i used to live and go to school. all the other pictures were destroyed in the fire .I didnt dare try to look anyone up id probably have gotten arrested or something , then returned to edmonton . we have replaced our house and furniture and were about ready for winter .
My mother loosing her memory and me loosing my memories due to the fire made me think of this site and try to look up old friends .
I must put in a good word for the Listowel legion , the gang there let me sit wiht them and treated me like I never left I thank them for that.
School
what school ? I wanted to do something else so i spent the next 20 years in training(school) and operational. in trade school i learned everything from typing and morse code to voice procedure antenna and radio theory, during my career i also trained to drive apcs , trucks of various sizes and operate mobile radio equipment . I learned a lot of grunt stuff like german canadian and american jump wings , commando trg in the airborne regiment and ...Expand for more
on the french commando crse in france , unarmed combat demolitions weapons , tactics,combat leader skills,mountain warfare ,aeronautical communications then i started to instruct , weapons from 9mm to 87 mm anti tank , ranger safety officer, rifle coach,radio theory, antenna theory,rappel master , artic warfare , veh maintainence and aeronautical communications .
Workplace
working as a dispatcher for the RCMP northern alberta based out of k div hq in edmonton you never get bored 12 hr watches i sit in front of 3 monitors and a bank of phones take complaints, dispatch same run info for the members, put people on the system and check officer safety
Military
joined in may1 74 , went to cornwalis NS. then kingston ont for signals trg , off to 1 combat group in calgary 75 went to norway 76, golan heights 77, back to calgary ,off to germany 78-82 4 svc bn, and 4 combat engineer regt, back to canada in petawawa to the airborne regt82-84 back to calgary 84 -89 signals squadron , then ldsh (rc) armoured regt to take over the command posts the back to the sigs sqn to go over to the golan again in 88 then back to canada and back to germany from 89-92 did anti terrorist duty during gulf war , went on first tour to yugoslavias in march 92 staying in a quaint place called vukovar on the serb side ,(found some bodys of civilians tha had bee "racially cleansed") back to germany then back to canada to edmonton worked military aeronautical communications till94 when the force retirement plan went thru and the liberals in their wisdom got rid of 20 thousand soldiers just the hard core grunts (like me ) and they suffered for it and still are .worked as a roughneck on a drilling rig (at 40 yrs old) the was finaly recruited by the RCMP in 96 and have been working there ever since .
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