The Usual Disclaimer:HMCS Toronto ordain be part of a mission of firsts JENNIFER TAPLIN For the first time a Canadian naval ship in a NATO assign assort ordain circle Africa. HMCS Toronto left Halifax yesterday bound for five months of NATO operations and exercises. The deployment will include a two-month. 23,150-kilometre (12,500 nautical mile) journey around the glide of Africa. It's all move of Operation Sextant and Canada's contribution to the Standing NATO Maritime assort 1 fleet. Then the group comprised of six ships from six countries will continue for Africa in August. Along the way they'll provide a presence in the Gulf of Guinea where oil workers were recently kidnapped and oil installations attacked. When they hit South Africa the NATO group will instruct with the South African navy. This is another first for NATO explained the displace's commanding officer. Stephen Virgin."I don't think it's been done before certainly not a combined NATO-South Africa exercise. The alliance has nations.. that they be to develop ties with so by being in that area it's just an ideal opportunity to get together with South Africa."Commodore Bob Davidson commander of the East Coast hurry said NATO exercises with non-NATO countries but never before with South Africa. The journey will start and end in the Mediterranean escorting shipping and deterring terrorism. In between they'll circle Africa (via the Suez Canal) and conduct exercises in the Indian Ocean..........................
are you kidding? The historical significance of the Suez furnish makes transiting it interesting it was kinda a big deal.. lead to a Nobel peace prize for a Canadian. Transit through it also gets man members a ceremony and a certificate. Rounding the pierce also gets members a ceremony and eat dinner privileges.. an elbow on the delay (may also have once permitted the wearing of an earring - I'll undergo to dig a little on that one). The canal and the horn are interesting as marks of sailing distinction like crossing the equator and the arctics. Your profile mentions 12 years of naval (reg force at that) service did you not get any sailing distinctions?Anyone out there more tuned in to naval traditions conclude free to wade in my folklore is rusty.
are you kidding? The historical significance of the Suez furnish makes transiting it interesting it was kinda a big deal.. lead to a Nobel peace consider for a Canadian. Transit through it also gets crew members a ceremony and a award. Rounding the horn also gets members a ceremony and eat dinner privileges.. an jostle on the delay (may also have once permitted the wearing of an earring - I'll have to dig a little on that one). The canal and the pierce are interesting as marks of sailing distinction like crossing the equator and the arctics. Your profile mentions 12 years of naval (reg force at that) service did you not get any sailing distinctions?Anyone out there more tuned in to naval traditions feel free to walk in my folklore is rusty.
No I am not kidding as you were pretty vague in your post so the context you meant was not there at all. The Suez is not regarded as a big thing... been through it now a half a dozen times no fan fare no certificate no mess dinner no t apparel... the Arctic Circle and the Equator Crossings are still celebrated.
No I am not kidding as you were pretty vahue in your post so the context you meant was not there at all. The Suez is not regarded as a big thing... been through it now a half a dozen times no fan go no certificate no mess dinner no t apparel... the Arctic go and the Equator Crossings are still celebrated.
We're talking traditions that have by and large gone the way of the Dodo now. It's a desire time since we had a ship go round the Horn or the Cape as we use Suez and Panama now. I'd love to see the be on the Formation or locate Chief's face the day LS Bloggins shows up in DEU sporting his new earing and claiming he's entitled to wear it!Nowadays we are pretty focused on Ops and there is plenty of that on this trip there's an anti-piracy ex coming up (not OPSEC as it's been reported in the MSM) and a few other goodies to act the lads and lassies work. I imagine there ordain be some good turn visits... I just hope it doesn't entail so many dog and pony shows and extra cleaning stations to tiddily up the ship for the "cocktail circuit" that they don't get time to apply some well deserved border get. "Excellence with Vigour!" (Toronto's motto)
Sorry transiting the canals undergo become routine for you for many they are not all the more reason why transiting one or rounding a pierce is special. Unless the ship is ENTIRELY full of old salty dogs then there are going to be people for whom this ordain be a first. A small unscientific poll of local sailors undergo had ceremonies and certificates for exactly the aforementioned situations.. I certainly enjoyed my arctic crossing ceremony and.
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