Bryan Keith Pierce, CV, MMM, MSC, CD

On September 18, 1998, Master Corporal Bryan Keith Pierce, CV, CD and Sergeant Keith Paul Mitchell, CV, CD, stationed in Cold Lake, Alberta and stationed in Greenwood, Nova Scotia, received the Cross of Valour.

On November 12, 1996, they carried out an unprecedented parachute jump at night from a Hercules aircraft into freezing Arctic waters to provide medical aid to a critically ill fisherman onboard a Danish trawler located near Resolution Island, Northwest Territories.

Sergeant Mitchell and Master Corporal Pierce were honoured at the Toronto Argonauts–Winnipeg Blue Bombers football game held at the SkyDome in Toronto on Saturday, September 19.

Sources:

http://www.forces.gc.ca/en/news/article.page?doc=search-and-rescue-...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Keith_Pierce