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Lieutenant-General Kent Foster CMM CD was the Commander, Force Mobile Command of the Canadian Forces.

Military career

Foster served with the Canadian Airborne Regiment.[1] He rose through the Officer ranks to become Commander, Force Mobile Command in 1989.[2] In that role, during the Oka Crisis in 1990, John de Chastelain, Chief of Defence Staff instructed him to take charge in a crisis over barricades placed by members of the Mohawk nation in a land dispute.[3]

References

  1. ^ Airborne Regiment Association of Canada - 1st Annual Airborne Memorial
  2. ^ Letter to General Rick Hillier
  3. ^ 3,000 troops ready to face massive counterattack by Mohawks Daily Gazette, 29 August 1990
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