Recent content by navypuke

Why does this formation even get a badge and others don't?

I cannot find the list that shows you what degrees you can take for certain officer trades on the recruiting website. Does anyone know where I can find this info. I'm specifically looking for NCS ENG acceptable degrees.

From what I heard, we were told by the Guatemalan military that they had it under control, and they would only help if the local politicians would ask for help. I don't think they trust their own army. Since they didn't ask, we were not required. 

Actually those dates that they awarded were wrong for Vancouver, Algonquin, Protecteur. I just went over my calendar and we were origally supposed to be in Guatamala 5 days last year but we left in under 48 hours because the situation deteriorated beyond our control. So all three ships should be...

Thanks for posting that deployment list, I heard about it from people. But no one had it to show me. If you look at the list it looks like only East coast boats did enough time in one go to get the medal. Seems the east coast gets all the medals. I guess if your a west coaster you'll just have...

Looks like they updated the mission list for the new OSM. Turns out I did a Southploy last year under the JIATF(S) umbrella. The ship was awarded 30 or 31 days in "theatre"  and my Pers Tempo under EMAA says 30 days on operation exactly. So you would think my ship would have qualified under this...

Where in  my previous statement does it say anything about future deployments. It was discussing past rotos of Op Altair and Saiph...

Last ship on OP Saiph was the HMCS Fredricton and OP Altair hasn't had a ship deployed under its name in a long while. I don't even know it exists anymore other than on paper.

Soon the west coast will have three subs and the east coast one. I wonder if that ticks off the east coast fleet with the sub facilities. It was kind of a curious thing to award the maintenance contract out here.

So the minute they come off the BTL they should remove the badge?

Actually we don't send vessels out to the Gulf as much anymore because we like to dump all our money into Afghanistan. And because we decided to stick around for two more years thats caused the Navy to change many plans when it comes to the Middle East because CEFCOM doesn't have the money...

I wonder if they will send a ship to relieve 339 down the road. And turn this into some sort of rotation. Or will 339 just go there, wave the flag and then head home after its all over. Cause I think the unrest in the middle east is just warming up.

Not the SSI, but I'm seeing new Ordinary Seamen around the base in their N1's wearing a weird sheild shaped badge just below their right breast. I was told it had something to do with going to bootcamp in St Jean sur Richeleu. What would this badge be. Is it possibly an old army command badge...

Yeah considering there is no details about said deployment I don't think there is any opsec issue here. I never even named the damn operation. Which you could probably find on google anyways. My line of work is not supposed to matter from what I gather here. So I imagine its going to be a very...

Okay so were sticking around in Afghanistan for two more years and this means the mission is changing from Kandahar back to Kabul. I just recieved a message at my unit that CEFCOM is looking for 5 MCPL/MS (can be over ranked to PO2/SGT) to be "Theatre Activation Team Advisors" in Kabul.  The...