Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada, inspects the Guard of Honour outside the Senate Chamber of Canada in Ottawa prior to the Speech from the Throne on 5 December, 2019. Photo Credit: CFSU(O) IMAGING SERVICES/Private Jonathan King © 2019 DND-MDN Canada

Major-General Dany Fortin, former Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Mission in Iraq receives an embrace upon his arrival at the MacDonald-Cartier International Airport in Ottawa, ON, on 29 November, 2019. Photo Credit: CFSU(O) IMAGING SERVICES/Private Jonathan King © 2019 DND-MDN Canada

Major-General Dany Fortin (left) and Chief Warrant Officer Steve Merry (second from right) former Command Team North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Mission Iraq, are welcomed by Chief of the Defence Staff General Jonathan Vance (centre) and Canadian Armed Forces Chief Warrant Officer, CWO Alain Guimond (second from left), at the MacDonald-Cartier International Airport in Ottawa, ON, on 29 November, 2019. Photo Credit: CFSU(O) IMAGING SERVICES/Private Jonathan King © 2019 DND-MDN Canada

Chief of the Defence Staff General Jonathan Vance (left) welcomes Japanese Ambassador KAWAMURA Yasuhisa at the National Defence Headquarters (Carling) in Ottawa, ON, on 17 December, 2019. Photo Credit: CFSU(O) IMAGING SERVICES/Leading Seaman Anne-Marie Brisson © 2019 DND-MDN Canada

Chief of the Defence Staff General Jonathan Vance (left) welcomes the Malaysian Chief of the Defence Staff General Hasbullahof at the National Defence Headquarters (Carling) in Ottawa, ON, on 6 December, 2019. Photo Credit: CFSU(O) IMAGING SERVICES/Leading Seaman Anne-Marie Brisson © 2019 DND-MDN Canada

Chief of the Defence Staff General Jonathan Vance (right) hosts an office call with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Strategic and International Affairs Advisor, Mr. Stephen Covington at the National Defence Headquarters (Carling) in Ottawa, ON, on 20 January 2020. Photo Credit: CFSU(O) IMAGING SERVICES/Private Jonathan King © 2019 DND-MDN Canada

Bruce MacLean, outgoing Director Aerospace Procurement and Brigadier General Nancy Tremblay, Director General Aerospace Equipment Program Management (DGAEPM), signs the Scrolls during the DGAEPM Change of Appointment Ceremony, at 455 de la Carrière, in Gatineau, Quebec, on December 18, 2019.Photo Credit: Leading Seaman Anne-Marie BrissonCanadian Forces Support Unit (Ottawa) Imaging Services© 2019 DND-MDN Canada

Members of the Director General Maritime Equipment Program Management (DGMEPM) pose with their medals and decorations after their group’s Honours and Awards ceremony held at the ADM(Mat) offices in Gatineau, Quebec, on 9 December, 2019. Photo Credit: CFSU(O) IMAGING SERVICES/Leading Seaman Anne-Marie Brisson © 2019 DND-MDN Canada

The Honourable Harjit Sajjan, Minister of National Defence of Canada, welcomes his counterpart from New Zealand, the Honourable Ron Mark, to his office at the National Defence Headquarters (Pearkes) in Ottawa, ON, on 22 January, 2020. Photo Credit: CFSU(O) IMAGING SERVICES/Leading Seaman Anne-Marie Brisson © 2019 DND-MDN Canada

Ministers of National Defence for Canada and New Zealand, the Honourable Harjit Sajjan (middle right) and the Honourable Ron Mark (middle left), enjoy a lunch at the HMCS BYTOWN Officers’ Mess Mess in Ottawa, ON, on January 22, 2020. Photo Credit: CFSU(O) IMAGING SERVICES/Leading Seaman Anne-Marie Brisson © 2019 DND-MDN Canada

Newly arrived participants of the Military Training and Cooperation Program (MTCP) listen to the Canadian Forces Language School Command Team as they welcome their new students to the Language Teacher Training Course, at the Asticou Centre in Gatineau, Québec on 13 January, 2020. Photo Credit: CFSU(O) IMAGING SERVICES/Leading Seaman Anne-Marie Brisson © 2019 DND-MDN Canada

Lieutenant-Colonel Étienne Tremblay (standing, right), Commandant of the Canadian Forces Language School (CFLS), and his Military Training and Cooperation Program team welcome the new Language Teacher Training Course students to the Asticou Centre, in Gatineau, Québec on 13 January, 2020. Photo Credit: CFSU(O) IMAGING SERVICES/Leading Seaman Anne-Marie Brisson © 2019 DND-MDN Canada