Had the honor of spending some time on a Royal Canadian destroyer in Halifax and also doing ops with them. What a great group of men and women, to work with. We also hosted some of them over on our Frigate.
FYI, Canada had the third largest navy in the world at the end of World War 2 -- right behind the USA and the UK. Canada had 434 commissioned warships in service.
2 light cruisers, 3 merchant cruisers, few aircraft carriers on the way. They even had 2-3 captured German Uboats to play with. It was neat at the end of WW2 if you consider ship types. Cool stuff to learn about.
As ex Royal Navy/Fleet Air Arm sailor in the mid 90s, I had the honour of a short exchange vist to HMCS Restigouche, (hope I spelt that correctly?). Our Canadian comrades were magnificent hosts & took great pride in showing me around their fine ship...
Dated a Canadian chick for awhile. She was an officer in the army and they completely blew her off, refused to pay for her medications or help her in any way. The Canadian government treats their troops despicably. And I thought the VA was bad in the US...
Was she living in the US? If she has primary residency in any other country then she probably wasn't eligible for health care benefits since she wouldn't be eligible for healthcare living outside of Canada either. Unless the military has their own separate plan for that, IDK.
Honestly I have made a lot of posts. I respect her for her service. I hope she can get what this Country owes her. There are a lot of resources that can help her and I really do hope she can find one. Vets don't need to be disrespected. Give them the help they need. Also be proud of our Vets. Show them respect
Thank you for Your service hopefully the people who left the bad and not neccessary great comments will understand why they get up in a king side bed and continue they day like no one is protecting them
OwlKeeper2900 Janvier and the schooling. We dont use our military enough to spend a lot of money on it. No offense but the only reason America spends so much money on their military is because they use it more. We don't really use our stuff because most of the Canadian military fights along side America so we use their equipment not Canada.
And all electrical fixtures have also to be latest as they are very light and are capable of more thereby eliminating all the junk at junctions and all of this at Emmy's Expense.
All kitchen personnel are to compulsorily wear aprons and gloves and hats especially if you are working with Turkey's or removing the insides of any poultry.
Actually life on a CANADIAN Warship is amazing. Just as it is with any other NAVY around the world. I am not a active member but if you know anything. A Sailor is a Sailor. I'm sure our counterparts get everything we get. They get respect. Hot meals. Medical attention and a nice place to sleep. I want everyone to see life aboard but it might not be what you are used to
Have only visited Canadian ships, never spent any time there. Spent a lot of time with Canadian Forces in Iceland and Nova Scotia, where I was introduced to Moose Milk.
All transport especially ships are all to be brought to the latest technology ie either radiator turbines engines or nuclear engines. I would suggest radiator turbine engine with a gaseous fuel as the amount of power they produce would be comparable to a nuclear engine with only 1% of the weight.
I get that ,and I agree totally, we are getting their , and yes I also agree about the 2% of GDP but also every country calculates it differently some countries include their coastguard and boarder patrol services into that 2% Canada does not. And yes we should have more then 60 planes should be 160.
Life in a Canadian warship.. Captain: Fire! Crew: Enemy boat is sinking, Captain. Survivors in the water. What do we do with them? Captain: Apologize and grant them asylum.
You guys do know what navy stands for right? N A V Y - never again volunteer yourself. She should have explained to the good viewers how a 1 and 3 watch rotation works.
Bruh. How is it that they have a single laptop with Skype installed for the entire ship of 250+ members? I hope this is (from 2014) really outdated by now. I mean, you'd figure that a solid satellite-internet connection and a dozen more laptops wouldn't cost more than 5 digits. That would be *pennies*, next to the operating and maintenance cost of a ship that size.
SO SAD TO KNOW OUR CANADA DATED DIESEL SUBMARINE ARE STILL LOADED WITH TORPEDOS INSTEAD OF MISSILES! WE NEED AT LEAST 4 NUCLEAR SUB TO DEFEND OUR VAST SEA REGION!
Not as big a joke as the Royal Navy here in the UK, It's so broke they are selling amphibious assault ships to Brazil. There are barley enough ships left to patrol the UK'S interests. The only aircraft carrier we currently have the Queen Elisabeth won't get the F35 aircraft until 2020! Before Brexit it was even considered putting French Aircraft on it until UK could afford some!
Just going to the indian ocean, it take more or less 3 months, stay there a month, come back, takes another 3 months, so it adds up pretty quickly, theres no way you can make it less longer (I'm not in the navy but am in the merchant marine, and we also take more or less 6 months for those kind of routes)
Dear god; when I was in the RCN that guy watching TV in the lounge that had to weigh over 300 lbs would have been relieved of duty and confined to base Naden or Stadacona hospital to lose that weight. Given a reasonable time to conform or suffer a medical discharge. He certainly wouldn't have gotten a sea duty posting while being a bluto.
I was in the US army for 21yrs. You NEVER EVER NEVER left a weapon unattended. It always has to be within arms reach. In Germany the Canadians would lean their weapons up against a wall and wander away, not even post a guard. They never could understand why that was a big no-no.
haha dont get all butthurt. It looks way more like a "home" than a ship. Any improvement to quality of life is key. I'd do anything to skype my family during deployment. On my last deployment that was almost 10 months long, we werent even allowed to use our own personal bed sheets. When they did berthing inspections, the standard issued sheets had to be on the bed. No Facebook access unless at port, sailor phones were expensive and quality was crap.
ESF2007 Pacific: That’s argumentative. My observation was when a RCAF Squadron was on detachment to Miramar in San Diego. I met many of then during a weekend barbecue and everyone in the squadron ended a sentence with EH. I Have never heard Americans end their sentence with EH.
