ABOUT MYSELF

My name’s are Lieutenant General Jacques Charles Lawson. I was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I enrolled with the Canadian Forces in 1978 under the Officer Candidate Training Plan. After helicopter training, I qualified in 1980 as a helicopter pilot. I had a long career in Tactical Aviation within Canadian Forces Air Command, which included flying positions in several squadrons, command of 444 Tactical Helicopter Squadron at Lahr in Germany, and command of 1 Wing Kingston. I have served in the United States as Deputy Commander for Continental NORAD Region and was standing duty at Tyndall Air Force Base conducting Air Operation on September 11, 2001. I later become Deputy Commander of 1 Canadian Air Division, and from August 2007 to June 2009, Deputy Commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command, receiving promotion to Lieutenant-General on taking up the appointment. In 2009, he assumed the position of Deputy Commander, Allied Joint Force Command Naples. While continuing to serve at Naples, on 25 March 2011, I was named Commander of Operation Unified Protector, NATO’s Military Intervention in Libya.

I'm a graduate of Canadian Forces Staff School; Canadian Land Forces Command and Staff College; Canadian Forces Command and Staff College; the National Strategic Studies Course; the Combined Forces Air Component Commander Course, Maxwell Air Force Base; the Generals, Flag Officers and Ambassadors Course at the NATO Defense College; and the Senior Executives National and International Security Program at Harvard University. I also has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from the University of Manitoba.

In 2015, I was assigned on a 5 years contract duty in Syria by the United Nation on a peacekeeping mission due to the present ongoing war in Syria.

ABOUT MY FAMILY

I have a daughter and she's 14 years old now. I am a widower. I lost my wife through Poly-cystic Kidney Disease 5 years ago in the year March 25, 2012. I am the only Son of my parents and I lost both of my parents in a Car accident at New York in September 11, 2005. That was a day I will never forget in my life.