Susan Beharriell

Lieutenant-Colonel Susan Beharriell (1954 – 1 December 2022 She was the first woman accepted to train as an Intelligence officer; she was first interviewed to determine whether she was "a bra-burning women's libber", and was told that if she failed no woman would ever again be allowed. Upon graduation in 1977 she was commissioned as a watch officer at the National Defence Intelligence Centre. Nevertheless she recorded 80 hours as a passenger in fighter jets during her time training CF-18 pilots.

Beharriell received the US Meritorious Service Medal, the Special Service Medal for service to NATO, the Canadian Decoration with 2 bars, and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal, and was an Officer of the Order of Military Merit.

Beharriell died on 1 December 2022 at the Sunnybrook Veterans Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.