Recent content by RickDevlieger

For grendel, and anyone else in his situation Here is the to your question about NCSTTP QL4 personnel from the W Eng Tech Occupation Manager: There was consideration given to NCSTTPs however we had to have a cutoff for legacy training. The W Eng Tech Maintainer OJPR is considered to be very...

For CDBoych Benji has most of the answer, but I will add that the bridging courses will soon be conducted in both Esquimalt and Halifax. You should be asked sometime in the near future which coast you would prefer to do your career on. That however is only a consideration for your Career...

For GuitarDean, gcclarke has pretty much said it. Irregardless of what you are taught in school, you can only do your practical phase on stuff that you actually have access to. Principles learned there can be applied to other stuff as it arrives on board, or you go to a ship with it. As a CSE...

For NavyHopefull, and anyone else who may be curious, Below is the answer from the Occupation Manager for NE and NW TECHS which will soon be Weapons Engineering Techs. He has been very involved with the occupation restructuring since it started under auspices of MOSART in 2003 will continue to...

gcclarke One of the constraints we faced when defining the occupation model was that the department footprint on the current ships would remain the same. So there will still be two PO1s (Port and Stbd watch Supervisor) for both IRO and HFX classes. A Career Manager would strive to ensure that...

CTRivers, MOSID 00116 is NE Tech(A) or Sonar. The academic training you will receve is identical to what the 00118 NE Tech(T) and 00117 NE Tech(C) receive and very similar to what the 00017 NW Tech gets. There will be differences in the application phases of training, obviously. However...

Combat Systems Techs, soon to Weapons Engineering Techs, consist of a dept on a ship of approx 30 people divided into Weapons, Communications, Sonar and Radar technicians, there sub divisions within those groups for different classes of ship and types of radar. Currently CS Techs are divided up...

sgt bob, I'm not sure if you are trolling or not. But the phrase: "Inocent until proven guilty" applies. It is one of the cornerstones of our society and the right of every citizen of Canada, including those who defend it. Someone has to prove these allegations "beyond reasonable doubt" before...

Considering that more than half of our GNP is directly dependant on the free movement of cargo and people across the Pacific Rim, a Sino/Indian war which expands into the pacific and Indian oceans and disrupts shipping would have a huge impact on our economy. Our large Chinese and Indian...

I just saw an article on the news about a company in Vancouver that is making a killing converting cars and small trucks to electric. Apparently lithium battery technology is making the electric car a viable option for in town use. The proprietor did make it clear that it is ideal for commuting...

I have been following this discussion for a while, and while not an expert in purple trades or the requirement for SQ. There seems to be a call for '"more " training, including some which would require a maintenance of a qual. There are a couple of issues which need to be resolved: 1. A very...

Does participating in sex purely for enjoyment make one psychotic?  :o ;D

Apparently there was an explanation of the ruling on Van Nistleroy's goal by a referee who emailed it into the commentators. I wish I had bothered to liste to them for a change. Apparently, because the Italian player was pushed off the field by his own keeper, he was not barred from the field of...

1. Ships Radio Call sign 2. Answered very well above 3. A couple of reasons. The bridge appears lower than it actually is becasue the ships "freeboard is higher than most other warships" It might have been higher until it was discovered during the Falklands war that alluminum supersturcture...

NCS Eng training is not effected by the restructuring of of the CS Technical trades except indirectly. NCS Eng go through their own training system. How it would compare as far as difficulty to MARS training I cannot say. The training is very different, what may be easy for one may be very...