Master Corporal (now Master Warrant Officer) Bryan Keith Pierce, CV, MMM, MSC, CD, a technician of the Canadian Forces search-and-rescue, received the Cross of Valour, the highest Canadian award for acts of courage in circumstances of extreme peril, on September 18, 1998, along with Sergeant Keith Paul Mitchell. In 2011, he was appointed to the Order of Military Merit as a Member (MMM).