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  1. Monsoon

    Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels (MCDVs)

    Yes, we embarked a fuel boom I recall. The MARPOL special area requirements were a challenge - but refuelling alongside was not.
  2. Monsoon

    Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels (MCDVs)

    It was indeed GBY - I was the Officer of the Watch! They've done it on subsequent northern deployments. Not much to it at all.
  3. Monsoon

    V-Adm Art McDonald new Canadian CDS (Jan-Feb 2021)

    The RCN gets to have a CDS for a fortnight once every three decades. Those are the rules.
  4. Monsoon

    Part-Time Employment, but Full-Time Training

    NAVRES has been running its own blended DL/DT/in-house BMQ serials during the peak summer season for a number of years, though to the best of my knowledge it's still possible for individuals to be loaded on fall/winter CFLRS serials depending on personal availability and open seats on courses.
  5. Monsoon

    Fmr MCpl Patrik Mathews - facing U.S. federal charges/alleged white supremacist

    Perhaps eventually things will swing around to the "How did something the military was dealing with for months end up on the front page of a newspaper followed shortly by a high-profile arrest, days after MND announced his anti-racism initiative two months before an election?" angle. Nah, it...
  6. Monsoon

    Dress and Deportment

    None of the four beards in that photo are either outside the current regulations or unacceptable by any public norm - not sure why they're attracting so much negative comment. I would guess that folks who don't like change the new beard policy won't be satisfied with any objective standard that...
  7. Monsoon

    Dress and Deportment

    I guess the dress chosen was a concession to the reality that those folks had jobs they were doing before the VIPs arrived, and jobs to return to after they left. It's good to see that the days of spending a week (or more) doing nothing but preparing for low-impact turn-out parades like this are...
  8. Monsoon

    Let "The Journey" Begin

    Okay, you've mentioned it enough times that I'm now genuinely curious: why is it that you regard tasks outside Canada as an unusual liability? You've acknowledged that the risk and hardship are subject to other allowances, so I gather it's the generally life-disrupting nature of the taskings...
  9. Monsoon

    Let "The Journey" Begin

    I wouldn't say that's the case with organizations that operate at a comparable scale to the CAF (oil & gas supermajors, as an example, or UN agencies). There, the benefits packages for contractors tends to be more or less the same as whatever is currently offered for new permanent staff; the...
  10. Monsoon

    Let "The Journey" Begin

    I guess you won't get any argument here - except perhaps to note that in general "time in rank" is a piss-poor way to evaluate performance and skill, and perhaps a less 1950s personnel management system would improve outcomes.
  11. Monsoon

    Let "The Journey" Begin

    Well, y'see he didn't have to compete for his job every 12 months, so...
  12. Monsoon

    Let "The Journey" Begin

    Which is why every other organization in the world pays a premium to its contract employees...  :whistle:
  13. Monsoon

    Let "The Journey" Begin

    Very, very well-put. For my part, I’ve always been skeptical of the mathematical magic that goes into the “military factor”: it’s pretty clear that the paths leading to the Director level in the public service and the military are extremely divergent (grad school and a few years’ experience...
  14. Monsoon

    June 2019: Higher Pay for Reservists

    Good point. In practice the different theoretical time-in-rank requirements are patched over by the very common use of accelerated promotion to Cpl in the RegF, which is not available to reservists. But there’s no obvious reason to have differing policies on either point.
  15. Monsoon

    New skill badges recognize unique naval operations qualifications

    That seems like a question best answered offline.
  16. Monsoon

    New skill badges recognize unique naval operations qualifications

    That was very much a restriction in place before we developed a capability to carry those sort of missions out. The tail was wagging the dog on that one.
  17. Monsoon

    VAdm Norman - Supply Ship contract: Legal fight

    But there are so many of us to choose from... Ken’s claim to media fame is as a Dalhousie security studies prof. He’s one of relatively few on that beat who are naval officers, so I guess it was inevitable he might weigh in. I have to say I’m in complete disagreement with him, though.
  18. Monsoon

    VAdm Norman - Supply Ship contract: Legal fight

    The investigation and referral for charges happened under Bob Paulson, who was a Harper appointee. The issue seems to have been that the RCMP were only given one name to investigate by PCO out of the 72 PCO knew to have been able to leak the information. That’s where the political interference...
  19. Monsoon

    Dress and Deportment

    I was there - he was wearing his peak cap during the parade itself. If you look carefully that’s not a black RCN ball cap; it’s a blue veteran association cap that was given to him at the end of the parade (the clip is of him thanking the participating group for it). Now why they had SIX...
  20. Monsoon

    VAdm Norman - Supply Ship contract: Legal fight

    That (the tweet) makes sense of what happened today. Remember that the prosecutor herself didn’t get to see the contents of the PMO emails until they were recently unsealed by the judge. As soon as she could read them, she realized the PMO had been interfering with witnesses and that it scotched...
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