The Canadian Forces is composed of 67,000 personnel (soldiers, sailors, and airmen/airwomen). Every unit accepts male and female soldiers, if they qualify for the position. The CF is divided in seven main branches, which are called "commands".
The Environmental branches (called Commands) are mainly administrative structures. They manage the personnel, the equipment and the facilities, but not the operations. There are three commands in the Canadian Forces, because there are no Marines. All the commands work very closely with each other, for example, the Air Force provides helicopters to both the Navy and the Army. These commands also each have a reserve element, made of part-time employees.
This is the army of Canada and the largest branch of the CF. It uses tanks and other armoured vehicles, such as the LAV III, as well as artillery, engineering vehicles, and a variety of weapons, such as the Colt Canada C7 rifle.
This is the navy of Canada. It has 33 active warships including submarines, frigates and destroyers.
AIRCOM is the air force of Canada. It operates a variety of helicopters and airplanes to support the army and the navy, and also has CF-18 fighters.
The Operational commands are responsible for specific types of operations or for conducting exercises or deployments. There are four operational commands.
The CANSOFCOM is responsible for providing special forces and asymmetric warfare capabilities to Canada. It is the smallest command of the Canadian Forces, and is composed of four joint units that do not answer to either the Army, Navy or Air Force. These units are the Joint Task Force 2, the Canadian Special Operations Regiment, the 427th Special Aviation Squadron and the Canadian Joint Incident Response Unit (CBRN).
This is the command responsible for managing foreign operations and deployments outside of Canada, such as Canada's contribution to the War in Afghanistan.
Canada Command works with the United States Northern Command to ensure national security and the defence of the North American continent. CANCOM also is responsible for emergency management, such as when the Army is needed to respond to disasters in Canada.
This command is responsible for supporting all the other commands with things such as logistics, engineering, health services, and the military police.
From the second half of the 20th century, the defence policy of Canada is made of these objectives :
During the Cold War, a major focus of the Canadian Forces was helping with the defence of Europe against the threat posed by the Soviet Union. Some Canadian soldiers lived in Europe during that time.
Today, the Canadian Forces goals are based on the Canada First Defence Strategy, introduced by the conservative government of Stephen Harper. The new goals and objectives are being able to do the following :
Canadian Security Intelligence Service
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) (French: Service Canadien du renseignement de sécurité) (SCRS) is the main intelligence agency of the Canadian government. It is responsible for collecting, analyzing and reporting intelligence on threats to Canada's national security, and conducting operations, covert and overt, within Canada and abroad.
Its headquarters are located at 1941 Ogilvie Road, in Ottawa, Ontario, in a purpose-built facility completed in 1995. CSIS (pronounced /ˈsiːsɪs/) is responsible to Parliament through the Minister of Public Safety, but is also overseen by the Federal Court system, the Inspector General of Canada, and the Security Intelligence Review Committee.
CSIS is a spy agency, similar to the CIA in the United States.
Tomás Reñones
Tomás Reñones (born 9 August, 1960) is a former Spanish football player. He has played for Spain national team.
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Antonio Maceda
Antonio Maceda (born 16 May, 1957) is a former Spanish football player. He has played for Spain national team.
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Víctor Muñoz
Víctor Muñoz (born 15 March, 1957) is a former Spanish football player. He has played for Spain national team.
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Rafael Gordillo
Rafael Gordillo (born 24 February, 1957) is a former Spanish football player. He has played for Spain national team.
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Juan Antonio Señor
Juan Antonio Señor (born 26 August, 1958) is a former Spanish football player. He has played for Spain national team.
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Francisco José Carrasco
Francisco José Carrasco (born 6 March, 1959) is a former Spanish football player. He has played for Spain national team.
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Julio Alberto Moreno
Julio Alberto Moreno (born 7 October, 1958) is a former Spanish football player. He has played for Spain national team.
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Quique Setién
Quique Setién (born 27 September, 1958) is a former Spanish football player. He has played for Spain national team. He has been the manager of the C.D. Lugo since 2009.
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Javier Urruticoechea
Javier Urruticoechea (born 17 November, 1952) used to be a Spanish football player. He has played for Spain national team.
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Ricardo Gallego
Ricardo Gallego (born 8 February, 1959) is a former Spanish football player. He has played for Spain national team.
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Hipólito Rincón
Hipólito Rincón (born 28 April, 1957) is a former Spanish football player. He has played for Spain national team.
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Francisco López Alfaro
Francisco López Alfaro (born 1 November 1962) is a former Spanish football player. He has played for Spain national team.
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Ramon Maria Calderé
Ramon Maria Calderé (born 16 January, 1959) is a former Spanish football player. He has played for Spain national team.
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Eloy
Eloy (born 10 July, 1964) is a former Spanish football player. He has played for Spain national team.
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Miguel Muñoz
Miguel Muñoz (19 January 1922 – 16 July 1990) is a former Spanish football player. He has played for Spain national team.
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Runes
Runes are very old letters which Germanic people used before they started using Latin letters in the Middle Ages. In its broadest sense, the word "runes" can mean any cryptic letters, but it usually means the alphabets used by Scandinavian people from about the year 150 CE to the Middle Ages. The oldest of these is called the "Elder Fuþark", used from about 150 to 800 CE. Around the year 800 the runes changed into the "Younger Fuþark", and these were used until about 1100, when the Latin alphabet replaced them. The Anglo-Saxon runes were used about the same time (400-1100) in Britain. The Scandinavian runes are called "Fuþark" because the first six letters in the runic alphabet are ᚠ ᚢ ᚦ ᚨ ᚱ ᚲ (F U Þ A R K). The Anglo-Saxon runes are called "Fuþorc" because they are a little different.
Runes are found carved into stones (called runestones) in many places in Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway and Sweden), and in the British Isles, Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Frisia. Runes have been used for writing poems and eulogies, and they are still sometimes used to write ciphers. Runes were also used by J. R. R. Tolkien in his fantasy works, which were based on Germanic mythology. Because of their association with Germanic mythology, runes were also used by the Nazis to support a new mysticism and a romantic sense of Germanic heritage. The rune ᚦ survived into the Middle Ages in the English language and to modern times in Icelandic as the letter þ (pronounced "th" as in "thing"). After the Norman conquest, this letter was replaced by the letters "th" because it was unknown to the French-speaking Normans. Similarly, the letter ð (pronounced "th" as in "this") was used in Old English and is still used in Icelandic, but it is from Irish, not from the runes.