At his dining room table, Dennis Leblanc clicks through a digital photo album of his time in uniform. With his wife Amanda looking on, he recalls a period of his life filled with purpose and camaraderie.
“I loved it,” said Leblanc, who lives in Oromocto, near 5th Canadian Division Support Base Gagetown, south of Fredericton. “I still love it. I could push myself. I knew my limits and capabilities, and then I would surpass them. And that’s what I loved about the job so much.”
A veteran of Bosnia in 1999, Haiti in 2004 and then two tours of duty in Afghanistan,