A Charlottetown man has been deployed on Operation Unifier in Ukraine as a training development officer.
Capt. Terry Hunter is assisting Ukrainian military instructors to develop courseware.
Hunter joined the P.E.I. Regiment in 1977, long before most of his comrades on deployment were born. He trained as a teacher and taught at various schools, including Birchwood Intermediate School, where he was also a volunteer instructor with the army cadets; Queen Charlotte Intermediate School, West Kent Elementary School and Charlottetown Rural High School.
Hunter transferred to the regular force as a training development officer in 1987. In Canada, he serves with the Canadian Forces Information Operations Group in Ottawa, Ont.
This is Hunter’s second deployment. He served as a United Nations military observer in the Sudan in Africa from 2008 to 2009.
Hunter is passionate about taking a little bit of P.E.I. with him everywhere he travels on deployment, so he and his bagpipes are inseparable. He piped the minister of National Defence’s arrival and departure.
As Canada’s military training mission in Ukraine, Operation Unifier is focused on assisting the security force in Ukraine with military training, professionalization and capacity building. The training mission occurs in co-ordination with international partners, including Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Sweden and the U.S.
