Soixante secondes avec le lieutenant-colonel Craig Higgins, Op REASSURANCE en Lettonie.

why did you join the calf I grew up idolizing my grandfather who fought in World War II I wanted a challenging uh and tough career and I definitely found it here in the calf [Music] good morning my name is Lieutenant Colonel Craig Higgins I'm a infantry officer with Princess Patricia's Canadian light infantry and the commanding officer of the enhanced Ford presence battle group here in Latvia and I'm here today to take their 60-second challenge what is the canadian-led NATO enhance Ford presence battle group in Latvia so it's a battle group here in Latvia under NATO here to defend latia reassure our allies and deter Russia and her allies what does leadership mean to you to me leadership is the honor and privilege to lead our soldiers and can only be done through leadership from the front what calf elements compose the battle group so we're formed around one ppcli Mike Battalion from Edmonton and we comprise about 450 members from the combat arms and support arms what's been your favorite memory so far during your deployment I'm definitely working with our NATO allies getting to try out their vehicles and fire their weapons how do you work with our NATO partners and allies during this deployment I mean we've got 10 different countries here 10 different languages so it all comes down to teamwork and just uh having the will and drive to improvise adapt and overcome the challenges what are some of the other key exercises and events happening this year during the deployment to Latvia so we do a series of Readiness exercises building up to exercise Crystal arrow and then a number of other exercises working with the latvians and the other enhanced forward peasants battle groups here in Europe about 60 seconds from Lieutenant Colonel Craig Higgins here in Latvia foreign