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Exchange program. In high school he played many sports, while also racing snowmobiles (won the World Series qualifier at the
Peterborough Kawartha Cup in 1973 ) and Enduro go-karts (broke the track record at Mosport Park in 1974 which is now called Canadian Tire Motorsport Park ), and building high
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On April 19, 1988, Brett rescued a fellow officer who had been overcome by one metre waves and a strong undertow while swimming at Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Seeing the man in distress, Cairns swam out to him and, battling the waves and current, brought him to rest on a sand bar. The weakened man
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Canadian Forces operations, both domestic and abroad. Over the course of his two years in this position, he was responsible for the oversight of 26 different
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Crossed Clubs award for athletic performance, the Cross Swords for leadership, and the Academic Star for academic performance. He was selected to be the captain of the High Box Display Team, the Cadet Wing Academic Officer, and he graduated with a Bachelor of
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one of the most brilliant achievements in the history of flying." The operation covered 15,000 square miles of area in northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba and he took over 1700 photographs from an altitude of 5,000 feet from a
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was swept from the sand bar and Brett again retrieved him, bringing him to another sand bar where a life guard then took over the rescue. For this action, on 26 June 1989 Brett was awarded Canada's Medal for Bravery.
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