Search results

Denmark uses the RRS rules. What they call "polar" is actually "Arctic", so the Polar 5 level they describe is equivalent to our PC 6. That is summer navigation (notice they don't say icebreaking, but navigation) in the Arctic i.e. mostly open water or going through some patches of growlers made...

Funny, I typed the same thing you did in Google and didn't get the selection you got. Then again I don't see why the article about the service's birthday would come up on top. Correct that it's a DEU. The "E" stands for "environment", not Command. Is 200 to 300 promotions in the storesman (or...

Easy: Do you work for MARLANT, MARPAC, COMNAVRES or Naval HQ Ottawa? You are in the RCN. According to Wiki, that's 12,000 people. First of all, there is no such thing as an RCN DEU, there are three environmental DEU, one of which in "Naval", but it is not exclusive to the RCN, which is a...

I was only half joking. But the point here is that a branch and a command cannot be compared. By definition, any command, like the RCN, will include all sorts of branches, including Log. Moreover, the Log Branch includes numerous trades as a branch, which most other branches do not...

I only recently learned of the passing, of natural causes on August 1st 2023, of Alex Graf, retired sergeant who served with the Royal Canadian Hussars, then the 8th Canadian Hussars, followed by the Lord Strathcona's Horse, saw service in Bosnia and Kosovo before retiring in 2014. I am sure...

I tend to agree with you, Kirkhill, with one small caveat: While the businessmen who ran the North west company and Montreal were mostly Scottish (and were crewed by the English like everybody else), they could only operate and manage what they did because the rank and file who did most of the...

I understand. My original point was that just because a pub or training aid is old doesn't necessarily mean that it's obsolete. That was all I meant to convey.

No it ain't. Canada is a mish-mash of the past of Britons ( from French Brittany), often doing the bidding of Scottish bankers and Irish catholics who came to escape English dominion by exploring and opening for business the West, at least East of the Rockies, by trading with natives as equals...

Can you be more specific? When you say she shared "some things from out there", do you mean UVIC or her Southern Alberta small town ?

Another News Era came to an end this morning when Chuck Todd signed off for the last time as moderator of Meet the Press. I will miss Data Download and am real curious to see where the new moderator will take the show. It is a newscast I always try and make sure I watch every week.

I know, Chief - I was on HMS Dovey with the Glasgow unit for two weeks in 93.

When the Naval Reserve had to re-learn minesweeping in the mid-90's to prepare for the MCDV, they had to refer to the Admiralty Manual of Seamanship .... .... ....(1952). The last one with the evolution in it. ;) Some things don't change in the military. It works and is still the solution...

Actually, it does, for three reasons: (1) It is where the fleet schools are right now, why move them? (2) we "home port" the NCM's so that they can spend their whole career in the same harbour. If you had to ship them away to another town to train, it would wreck the system, and (3) ditto for...

On direct comparison with what?

The last time an admiral decided he would park the MCDV's to use their crew somewhere else, there was political hell to pay in Ottawa and it was politically reversed even though (1) the admiral was correct in his decision and (2) parking ships in harbour to properly man the ones that are left is...

Doesn't quite work that way. First of all, in order to have a proper deployment of, say, 1000 crew, accounting for recruiting/training/manning shore establishments of all sorts (including the fleet maintenance groups, dockyard, bases and naval HQ's) you need almost 1.8 persons ashore for each...

And that is why I referred to the Canadian Army in my previous post. An amphibious capability is first and foremost an army matter: it is putting the army where it wants to fight coming from the sea. It is a capability to carry out a land war, coming from a different direction. Right now, I...

Do you really need those winglets? :)

Move troops on our own ships, to Asia ??? When you find me a single Canadian Army unit willing to twiddle its thumbs, packed like sardines, for three to four weeks, just to get somewhere in Asia instead of flying there, you can talk to us about Phibs. If it is just moving their equipment for...