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A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM JOHN HART AND THE FSSF ASSOCIATION.
December 5, 1992: The Canadian Airborne Regiment deployed to Somalia on Operation Deliverance as part of a UN Chapter VII mission. During the deployment, despite earning a stellar reputation from the UN and US authorities for their security and humanitarian efforts, the criminal actions of a number of paratroopers, particularly the murder of a teenager Shidane Arone, created a negative public reaction to the mission. The subsequent political fallout created what became known as the Somalia Affair and eventually led to the disbandment of the Regiment.
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June 24, 1992: The Canadian Airborne Regiment is down-sized from regimental to battalion status.
February, 1992 The RCMP agrees to transfer the Counter-Terrorism/Hostage Rescue mandate to the Department of National Defence effective 1 April 1993. Consequently, a new counter-terrorism force is born, Joint Task Force Two (JTF2).
April 1, 1993: Joint Task Force Two (JTF 2) was stood-up and becomes Canada’s hostage rescue/counter-terrorism force.
January 23, 1995: The Minister of National Defence announces the disbandment of the Canadian Airborne Regiment as a result of the political fallout from the Somalia Affair.
March 5, 1995 The Canadian Airborne Regiment marches in its final parade at CFB Petawawa and is officially disbanded.
