Lieutenant-General Kent R. Foster, CMM

Order of Military Merit (Canada)

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Canadian Forces Decoration

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 was the Commander, Force Mobile Command

Commander, Mobile Command

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 of the Canadian Forces

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Military career

Foster graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada

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 in 1960. He served with the Canadian Airborne Regiment and rose through the Officer ranks to become Commander, Force Mobile Command

Commander, Mobile Command

The Commander, Mobile Command was the head of the Canadian Forces Mobile Command, the former name for Canadian Forces Land Force Command. The appointment was entitled Chief of the General Staff until 1964 when the appointment became Commander, Mobile Command with the unification of Canada's...

 in 1989. In that role, during the Oka Crisis

Oka Crisis

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 in 1990, John de Chastelain

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, Chief of Defence Staff instructed him to take charge in a crisis over barricades placed by members of the Mohawk nation

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 in a land dispute. Foster also deployed Canadian troops during the Gulf War

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In retirement he became an Assistant Deputy Minister for Health and a Governor of Royal Roads University

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