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It does what a PC
BATUS a financial
does, only better.
boon to area
Tenille Tellman A British joint nuclear, biological and
A Mac has all the essentials built right in, including the latest
ttellman@medicinehatnews.com chemical regiment also came for training.
wireless technology, advanced Intel chips, and a rock solid
This year approximately 4,000 Canadians
operating system that’s loaded with innovations
Conducting military training in our own en route to Afghanistan will be training
backyard comes with more benefits than at the site for about a month. MacDonald,
just safety and security, British Armed Detweiller and Associates (MDA) has also
MacBook
Forces training at Canadian Forces Base signed on for at least two more years of flight
Suffield means huge financial benefits to the training with their unmanned aerial vehicles
• solid aluminum unibody enclosure
• 13.3” LED backlit display
local economy. Soldiers spend their hard- on site.
• NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics
earned money in the area, while many local
The soldiers and organizations using the
• smooth glass multi-touch trackpad
businesses are paid to provide a number of
base have stayed in local hotels, rented cars
• up to 320GB hard drive necessary services.
and spent their money in the community to
• 2 USB 2.0 ports
British Army Training Unit Suffield (BATUS) the benefit of the economy.
• Intel core 2 duo 2.4GHz
• wireless 8.0211n
Commander Col. Ben Edwards estimates
“We spend about $71 million in goods
• iSight camera
approximately $100 million of UK taxpayers'
and services — mostly in the local area
money was spent on training at BATUS in
— and we’ve also ran a number of capital
starting at $1399
2008. The money includes salaries for British
procurement projects,” said Bruce, adding the
and Canadian staff, locally purchased goods,
actual funds would still reach approximately
infrastructure and maintenance. Nearly 50
MacBook Pro
$100 million.
per cent of a new fleet of GMC trucks were
• solid aluminum unibody enclosure purchased by an agreement with Murray’s
Another five battle groups are scheduled
• 15” LCD backlit display Chevrolet Cadillac.
to come through CFB Suffield this year,
• NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics
but some of the training may take place
• smooth glass multi-touch trackpad
The British and Canadians are on the same
simultaneously. This means between 2,500-
• up to 320GB hard drive
side and train for the same purposes, says
3,000 British troops could be at BATUS at
• up to 4GB of RAM
Edwards. The 2008 budget was “money well
any given time and larger groups will be
• 1066 MHz DDR3 memory
spent” and does not include the impact other
coming through the city.
• 2 USB 2.0 ports businesses would have felt as British soldiers
• firewire 800 port
came to shop in town.
Edwards also hopes to work with other bases
• Intel core 2 duo 2.8GHz
to find opportunities for shared training.
• 802.11n wireless
In 2008, five regular Medicine Man rotations
There have already been occasions when the
• iSight camera
came through CFB Suffield, bringing in
Canadian air force completed a flying mission
approximately 8,000 soldiers at different
over BATUS and a Canadian medical unit
starting at $2149
stages of deployment for training. The figure
has come on site to provide live cover during
indicates one-fifth of all deployable soldiers
training.
in the British Army have been through
iMac
BATUS in the last 12 months, all of which
“We’re going to start building again to begin
will be going on to operations in the future,
to go back to the days when complete sub-
• 20 or 24 inch glossy widescreen display
• NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
he added.
units — say a tank squadron or an infantry
• 2 GB or 4GB DDR3 Memory
company — would join a British battle group
“DRDC (Defence Research Development
• 320 GB Serial ATA hard drive
for the training evolution at BATUS,” said
• Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66 GHz and Higher
Canada) put through about 10,000 training
Edwards.
• Speed 8.02.11n wireless technology
days and about 33 weeks of . . . in-house
training, on top of all their normal research
There are approximately 1,300 permanent
• iSight camera
and development,” added Base Commander
staff at CFB Suffield, including 218 permanent
starting at $1399
Col. Malcom Bruce.
British staff.
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