Through 34 years of service in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), Ross has built a distinguished career in logistics and finance, alongside a repertoire of stories that have only gotten better with time. “When I went outside, it was all French, and I learned French very quickly because of this,” said Ross. As a young adult, Ross attended McGill University to complete a Bachelor of Commerce undergraduate degree, after which he landed a banking job. Ross then spent four years running logistics for the Canadian Forces Snowbirds out of Moose Jaw before postings carried him through Edmonton and back to Ottawa. Just hours later, Ross found himself at the centre of history when the second Palestinian uprising, a five-year period of violence also known as the Second Intifada, began.