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Auxiliary Security Force personnel will train at 19 Wing and the Seal Bay training site until Friday, with a final exercise that day that could affect traffic entering the wing. The Recovery and Salvage team will also conduct an aircraft recovery exercise at Seal Bay through Thursday.

The aircraft are operating out of 19 Wing Comox while conducting simulated close-air-support missions near Comox, northwest of Campbell River and over the mainland near Mount Waddington.

Colonel Chris Shapka has handed command of 19 Wing Comox to Colonel Ian Perreault.

Comox Valley RCMP say one man has been arrested after a laser was allegedly pointed at a military aircraft. 

19 Wing Comox has secured another housing arrangement to support its members. 

Another year of search and rescue training hosted by 19 Wing Comox is in the books. 

Search and Rescue (SAR) teams across Canada and the United States are taking flight over the Comox Valley this week. 

Multiple medical emergencies on a cruise ship off the Washington coast last weekend required the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) to call for help north of the border, with 19 Wing Comox answering the call to action.