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    Why do they rig sheers in sea cadets?

    I would like to know if anyone has any insight into why sea cadets learn this more-or-less useless skill only to never use it again in their lives.  I have been giving a long and hard think into the sea cadet QSP and wondering why it does not teach more modern navy skills.  Moreover, I have...
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    Sea cadet march pasts/parades--is there any historical basis for their format?

    I had started a thread on the history of naval parades done ashore (i.e. not divisions done aboard a ship) in the navy forums.  My purpose was to find out what the RCN and MARCOM thought was a parade.  I have been subjected to two extrenes: fancy ceremonial parades every morning in sea cadet...
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    Who can wear a boat cloak?

    The latest CF Dress Instructions state that only Capt(N)s and above may wear a boatcloak (p. 6E-1).  However the NETPO Handbook (Version 1.2 Revised May 2005) says that all commissioned officers may wear them (p. 5-40). Which is correct?
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    History of naval parades done ashore

    Can anyone here tell me the history and rules of the navy's ceremonial parades that are conducted not aboard a ship, but ashore?  I have participated in a grad ceremony at VENTURE and various sea cadet parades (which I have assumed somewhat followed naval tradition) but I cannot find any...
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    Do (some) naval officers wear 10% gold lace rank?

    Is the non-nylon, "real" (i.e. 10% gold, 90% something else) gold braid still worn by some officers in the navy?  I think that I had seen it on some very nice looking shoulder boards this summer, but I didn't ask and I am not sure if it was just a particularly good-looking bit of yellow nylon...
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    shipboard footwear

    What are the features of appropriate shipboard footwear?  I am presently ordering custom made service boots (to fit orthotics, you see) and the option of steel-toed combat boots came up.  This ordering process is rather hard as I am doing it while having only experienced IAP & 1 yr university...
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    Officer-of-the-watch vs officer-of-the-day

    Am I correct in thinking that OOW & OOD are basically the same role, but OOW performs at sea, switching every watch while the OOD performs in harbour, switching every day?  I ask because I have heard OOW is subordinate to OOD.
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    Supplemental benefits: orthopedic footwear

    I've flat feet.   Not 'get some Dr Scholls & be gellin' flat feet, but the nasty kind that needs orthopedic footwear/orthotics.   So I went to an MO, who sent me to a podiatrist who said I needed orthotics.   She preferred to have the orthotics separate from the footwear so that they could be...
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    How the Pentagon rewrote the film 'GoldenEye' to include a Canadian adm

    Found this article in the National Post regarding a part of the book Operation Hollywood: how the Pentagon shapes and censors the movies: Okay, that's all I can copy from the website so I'll paraphrase the article I read in the hard copy. There is a scene in which the femme fatale, Xenia...
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    Nomenclature of the Divisional System

    I've just skimmed over MARCOM's Guide to the Divisional System & the read has left me with a few questions: I understand that, unlike the army's COC, the divisional system is more 'flexible' in that there are not fixed sections, platoons, companies, battalions, etc. but rather a series of...
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    ROTP Civvy-University Cadets--how do we refer to ourselves?

    After a few months of explaining to people I'm majoring in philosophy, and in the regular navy, and philosophising is my job in the navy, and I'm a MARS officer (God, how that throws people off!) I've grown tired of the 10 minute explanation to the frequent question: 'What are you doing now?'...
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    NETPO Training (Phase 2 trg for MARS officers)

    I've just found out that I'll be taking the "Naval Environmental Training Period, Officers" next summer after BOTP and I'm wondering if anyone can tell me what exactly it involves?  Please say it's sailing the Oriole. :-\
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    The current navy uniform

    Hi, I'm new to these forums and the Canadian Navy (just finished IAP @ St Jean) and I'm very interested in naval uniforms.  However, there does not seem to be a lot of info on Canadian uniforms--even the CF dress Instructions is confusing.  So I've got a few questions that I reckon some people...
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