Gervais Carpentier

Gervais Carpentier would graduate in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in business administration from the Royal Military College Saint-Jean. He would later obtain a master's degree from the Royal Military College of Canada. In 2009 he would graduate from the Canadian Forces College Joint Command and Staff Program and in 2017 from the National Security Program.[2]

Carpentier enrolled into the Canadian Armed Forces in 1987 as an Officer Cadet at the Royal Military College Saint-Jean. After graduating he would assume his trade as an Infantry Officer in the 5th Canadian Mechanized Brigade. In 1993 Carpentier would deploy to Bosnia and Herzegovina as a Platoon Commander, and again in 1995 to Croatia during the Bosnian War. In 1997 Carpentier would again deploy as a platoon commander to Haiti with 3rd Battalion R22R.[3] After Haiti he would be an instructor at the Infantry School in Gagetown from 1997–1999. Carpentier would go on to serve in the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command as a Troop Commander and eventually command an assault squadron within Joint Task Force 2. During his time with Joint Task Force 2 Carpentier would deploy to Afghanistan in 2002 and 2007. From 2009 to 2011 he would serve in the CANSOFCOM HQ. In 2011 he would serve as the military assistant to the Deputy Commander at NATO's Joint Forces Command Naples in Italy.[3]

Carpentier would serve as the Chief of Staff for the 5th Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group in 2013. In 2014 Carpantier would become the Commanding Officer of 2nd Battalion Royal 22 Regiment and would hold this position until 2016. In 2017 Carpentier would become the Commandant of the Royal Military College Saint-Jean where he would oversee the re-introduction of a university courses to obtain a degree at the Collage. In 2019 Gervais Carpentier would be promoted to the rank of Brigadier General after becoming the Commanding Officer of the 2nd Canadian Division on August 15, 2019 taking over from Major General Jennie Carignan after she took command of the NATO mission in Iraq.[4]