A Manitoba-based drone training program for veterans is helping them 'take off' with life after serving our country. It's fun and engaging, but also deeply impactful.
A drone training program for veterans is helping them take off with life after serving our country. Daisy Woelk reports.What do you do after dedicating 38 years of your life to the Royal Canadian Air Force ? For Michel Latouche it was aerospace consulting.
“A lot of veterans have retired and have issues with transition or PTSD. We found that learning to fly drones is given them a little bit of a sense of purpose,” he said. Bill McLean, who spent 31 years as an intelligence officer, and is now a graduated student from VEdTS, said the camaraderie in the group runs deep.
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