Sgt Roger (Squirrel) Switzer, CD1 (ret'd) (Deceased)

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                                                                        1961                                                                                        2002

First Name	Roger    {Squirrel}
Last Name	Switzer
Rank, or rank last held	Sgt
Serving or Retired / Year Retired	Retired 1987
Regular or Reserve Forces & Element	Regular
Year Enrolled & # of Years Served	1959  /  25 Years
E-mail address's Home/Work	squirrel2001@shaw.ca

 

 

Current Posting if serving	N/A
Current Position if serving or last position held	I/C Rations 1 CSR Kingston
Date retired	Oct 1987
Medals, Honours & Awards	UN Medal Cyprus   CD1

 

Home address	Unit 30  700 Grenville Ave Victoria BC
Home phone / Cell phone #'s	1  250  380 - 2276
Work phone #	N/A
Web Page / Site	N/A

Family Information

Spouse / Partner	Mary-Lou
Children's names & ages	None

 

If retired, what are doing currently doing?

Nothing (Passed away at 1815 hrs 28 April 2006)

History of service / Bio 

I joined the RCASC Apprentice Training Company in Sep 1959 and did 2 years of schooling plus 2 years of military training.  I graduated in Aug 1961 and was posted to 4 Tpt Coy Winnipeg as a Tpt Op.     While there the Berlin crisis came up and I was posted to 1 Tpt Coy in Soest where I spent 2 years.  I was medically remusted in 1963 to Clk and my next posting was to 2 Tpt Coy Borden.   I got out of the service in Oct 1964 and saw the light after 3 1/2 years and joined back up in May of 1968.     I was posted to Borden and then did a 6 month tour of Cyprus and in 1970 was posted to NDMC Military Hospital in Ottawa.  I did 1 1/3 years there then was posted to HQ downtown and decided that clerking was not for me and remustered to cook in 1973.   After trades training I was posted west to HMCS Gatineau for 2 1/2 years as a galley cook then posted to CFS Carp for 2 years.  In Carp I was mainly a shift cook.    In 1978 was posted to CFB Lahr where I worked out of the Black Forest Officers Mess as 2 i/c then was posted to 1 RCHA for 2 years.  I was i/c HQ Bty and while on a lot of fd deployments was known as the PIZZA Man.  I worked mainly out of the mens canteen at night serving the gunners hot food in the canteen.  I can't complain it was instrumental in my getting my 3rd hook.   Came back to Canada in Jul of 1982 to CFS Gander where I was 2 i/c for another 2 years then was posted west again to HMCS  Saskatchewan for another 2 year posting. While with Saskatchewan managed to get on a Far East Cruise which I'm glad I did.    I was then posted to CFB Kingston as i/c of the officers mess for 6 months then to 1 CSR as i/c rations where I did my last 6 months in the service.    I retired to Victoria and was lucky enough to get a job as a GS FOS 3 (Salad Person) and I did 16 years with that job till I fully retired in 2004.