Resolute

Across the high Arctic, the Canadian Armed Forces are conducting a series of Operation NANOOK exercises to test joint operational capabilities, domain awareness, and Northern readiness.

These activities include multinational maritime maneuvers alongside US, French, and Danish naval units during NANOOK TUGAQ, as well as surveillance domain integration and infrastructure assessments under NANOOK NANAQPUT, which ran through late September based out of Resolute Bay.

At the strategic level, Operation NANOOK as a whole is directed by Canadian Joint Operations Command, CJOC, and run on the ground by Joint Task Force North.

Executing these strategic objectives on the ground depends directly on the surveillance mobility and local terrain knowledge provided by the Canadian Rangers.

Sir, uh, I'll take the opportunity to kind of introduce the NANOOK TAKUNIK serials, which is the-

Sure

... primarily Ranger serials that we, we currently have a contingent deployed on right now into, uh, Resolute Bay in support of that.

Um, and this is kind of our, from the Rangers perspective, uh, the TAKUNIK serial is really where we get to kind of demonstrate our capabilities and that sense, um, function and the detect less so we kind of stray into that deter.

Yeah, this was really one of the highlights from, from last year.

So, uh, the town that you go through to get to Devon Island is called Resolute Bay.

So it's like this Arctic outpost.

Uh, it's an Inuit town.

So I was just trying to get to the start line, which I didn't do.

So then instead I was like, right, where am I? What can I do instead? And I went, I started from Resolute Bay where the local community were great and really like supporting and helpful, which, you know, I really needed.

And I went out and basically went around that island for 40 days solo.

And I saw polar bear footprints the whole time.