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Michael Jeffery CMM CD was the

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of the

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Military career

After a short period as a soldier apprentice, Jeffery was commissioned into the

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in 1967,Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute
rising over his career to be the

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of the Third Regiment

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. In 1989 he was selected to be Canadian Contingent Commander to the

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(UNTAG) in

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. He was subsequently

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of the Canadian Land Forces Command and Staff College and then

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of the

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. He served as

from August 2000 to May 2003. In that role he expressed concerns that the commitment of two six-month rotations of about 1,800 soldiers to

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meant about a third of the army’s deployable forces were committed internationally. He retired from military service in the rank of

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in 2003. In 2000, he was promoted in the Order of Military Merit to the grade of

. In 2004 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree from the

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. He is also a Distinguished Alumni at the

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.Distinguished Alumni
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References

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