Category: Domestic Stories

• Incident On Board HMCS CHICOUTIMI
  HMCS CHICOUTIMI while transiting from the UK to Canada experienced a fire while at sea off the west coast of Ireland earlier today.

• Change of watch at CMS
  “I could not think of a better leader than Admiral Buck to step up to the challenges that the position of Vice Chief of the Defence Staff represents,” acknowledges Rear-Admiral Pierre Thiffault, Chief of Staff Joint Force Generation.

• A poem of their own
  Any pilot who has read about the “long, delirious, burning blue” in John Magee’s poem High Flight can immediately identify with the author’s bird’s-eye view, so to speak. Now, thanks to Lieutenant-Commander Bob Gwalchmai, Officer Commanding, Fleet Diving Unit (FDU), divers have words that aptly describe their own unique form of underwater flight.

• Navy to play major role in National Security Policy
  As part of last month’s announcement of Canada’s National Security Policy (NSP), a six point Maritime Security Plan has been laid out, along with an investment of $308 million, almost half of the total $690 million of new spending contained in the NSP

• Defence Minister announces new shipbuilding contract
  Defence Minister David Pratt and Chief of the Maritime Staff Vice-Admiral Ron Buck announced details April 16 about Federal Government plans to spend $2.1 billion to replace the Navy’s 35-year-old Protecteur-class Auxiliary Oil Replenishment (AOR) vessels