Recent content by Master Jack Carter

Most of the new generation CCG Ships Crew (SC) would love to be operating like the US Coast Guard, but even after the takeover of the Canadian Coast Guard by the Canadian Armed Forces a few months ago, the Ships Officers (SO) who have all gone to the Canadian Coast Guard College, are opposed to...

Yeah, our new incoming Class replacing the Kingston Class MCDV's are Super Corvettes. Like Super Hornets, Super Puma's, Upgraded and enhanced platforms usually get a Super thrown into the name, often times because they make the platform Super-ior over the original design. I was one of the...

As the name suggests, they are great for hanging around the Bays around our Coastlines on the Pacific, with limited use in the Juan De Fuca, Haro, and Georgian Strait. I only got to ride in one of the first ones we took delivery of around Vancouver Island. North Atlantic, especially in the...

The new CCGS BAY CLASS are da bomb, with larger capacity, sink proof rolling capacity, and YES, they would work well, but the CCG Senior Management have fought for years to stay away from Military Style Operations, unlike most of the worlds Coast Guards have adopted, working with their military...

If the RCN and NTOG Operators are working in the Great Lakes and St Lawrecne River, they will be fully equipped no different than doing an OPERATION CARIBBE Mission. The same Armed Gang Bangers that are smuggling people and drugs off of our shorelines in the Atlantic and Pacific are also getting...

FJAG, Joint Task Force Pacific (JTF-P) still operates a huge program with DEA, Homeland Security (ICE), CIA, US Coast Guard patrolling within one of the largest Anti-Drug and Anti-Human Smuggling Operations in North America. I did the last five years 2017 - 2022 on the West Coast, and is always...

HMCS CATARAQUI right beside the front gates of CFB Kingston and HMCS MONTCALM, which is the location of the Naval Reserve Command in Quebec City are the two locations being considered as the Operating Bases. CFB Valcatrez (Valcartier) and CFB Kingston both have numerous barracks for Sailors, and...

I have had two postings to CFB Esquimalt, and the ORCA Class are awesome! They are used to train Junior Navy Officers at the Naval Officer Training Centre (NOTC) based at the former 3 PPCLI Barracks location. I highly suspect that land based Reserve Navy Bases in Quebec City, which is the Naval...