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If memory serves, back in the 70s and 80s seeing folks with CDs with clasp and no other ribbons was quite common, especially navy and air force types who were less likely to have been on UN tours. Most Second World War and Korea vets were retired by the early 70s (with a few exceptions like my...

True enough although my understanding is that part of the RAF argument was that they could operate from some of those imperial outposts, like Diego Garcia.

We must have had some system in place when the RCN had naval aviation since Admiral Falls was both a navy flyer (admittedly having earned his wings in the RCAF) and a CO of ships including Bonnie.

I seem to recall that the RAF on the other hand succeeded in using the argument to sink the RN's carrier fleet, leading to the cancellation of the plans for the original Queen Elizabeth class carriers in 1966 and the eventual scrapping of Eagle and Ark Royal.

Which the Australians have done with the RAAF shifting maritime air (rotary) back to the RAN and tactical to the Australian Army several years ago. With regard to a carrier type, assuming we wouldn't go down the path of the QE class given the size/cost, is there an existing type out their that...

That, or is it just a reflection of a more fundamental problem facing the CA vs the RCAF/RCN...?

It's an RFI though. Wouldn't that mean RFP is yet to come?

The Canadian disease. And not just in defence procurement, witness Ottawa's LRT...

Thereby avoiding accountability for the taxing part, which is my point. The GST cut was a huge missed opportunity by the provinces to add to their revenues without actually increasing taxes on anyone by simply keeping the HST at 15%.

Maybe check and see what effect Ojibwa is having on marine traffic in Port Burwell...:)

I think I may have two...

Again, my mistake on that. Equalization payments I believe are unconditional. I still think it wouldn't hurt to look at transferring tax points to the provinces and holding the feds accountable for their clear areas of responsibility.

My bad. I checked my copy of Canada's Military Lawyers and the RCN position was the Judge Advocate of the Fleet, who was also the Assistant Chief of Naval Personnel (Admin). I did find a reference to a Naval Secretariat but it doesn't expand on what the role was.

Would it not also necessitate a rather long and very public surface transit to blue water that seems counterintuitive to the role?

This! Turn out for local elections is typically abysmal, which has the unfortunate side affect of making it very possible for very narrow special interests to exert influence their numbers might not otherwise warrant. There's no getting away from the fact that the government that delivers the...

I could very well be wrong but I had understood the position of Secretary of the RCN to have been their pre-integration equivalent of the JAG in the CA.

Don't hit me with them negative waves so early in the morning. Think the bridge will be there and it will be there. It's a mother, beautiful bridge, and it's gonna be there. Ok?

Like you, my Dad was just shy of 42 years over a period that covered the Queen's Coronation, Centennial and the Silver Jubilee medals, none of which he received. In the first instance, his CO at 17 ROD in Vancouver just pointed to his Second World War ribbons and left it at that. He was never...

Basically just a Canadianized version of the RN shoulder board is it not?

Not sure when it was, but I seem to recall a DND publication, maybe an early Maple Leaf, with a collage of historical images of the Navy on the cover. These included a smiling image of a sailor in what some one must have thought was RCN square rig. Unfortunately he was wearing a USN gob hat.