8 Months to get a DND License Plate
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Oldgateboatdriver
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To quote today's generation: Whaaaaaaaaaaat!
This makes about as much sense as it would for a civilian's boat, in the vessels registry of Transport Canada to be linked to its trailer in the provincial registry of vehicles for the province that issued the trailer's plate.
Those boats are part of the RCN assets and are shipped/transferred/Chop'ed, etc. as need be for operations of the fleet and training - with or without their trailer.
This makes about as much sense as it would for a civilian's boat, in the vessels registry of Transport Canada to be linked to its trailer in the provincial registry of vehicles for the province that issued the trailer's plate.
Those boats are part of the RCN assets and are shipped/transferred/Chop'ed, etc. as need be for operations of the fleet and training - with or without their trailer.
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17 Wing TEME has one of the largest fleets in the CF.
If they didn't buy your trailer (which it seems like it was NAVRES) - they can't really be expected to jump up and react to your unexpected request. It takes about 24 months to replace a trailer/vehicle/etc in the CF. Gone are the days of just buying what you want with a FIN Code and expecting your local TEME unit to support. Your trailer is an "orphan" until they work hard on their part to adopt it into the system - they need to go to Ottawa now and get them to agree that your trailer is worthy and should be supported by the system. By making this agreement - 17 Wg TEME is now fiscally responsible to maintain and support your shiney new trailer.
I had DGDS agree to fund 2x ATV and 2x Snowmobile for my base defense teams - TEME denied it at the national level. Having the money is not important anymore, it's up to Ottawa to decide.
If they didn't buy your trailer (which it seems like it was NAVRES) - they can't really be expected to jump up and react to your unexpected request. It takes about 24 months to replace a trailer/vehicle/etc in the CF. Gone are the days of just buying what you want with a FIN Code and expecting your local TEME unit to support. Your trailer is an "orphan" until they work hard on their part to adopt it into the system - they need to go to Ottawa now and get them to agree that your trailer is worthy and should be supported by the system. By making this agreement - 17 Wg TEME is now fiscally responsible to maintain and support your shiney new trailer.
I had DGDS agree to fund 2x ATV and 2x Snowmobile for my base defense teams - TEME denied it at the national level. Having the money is not important anymore, it's up to Ottawa to decide.
Oldgateboatdriver
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With all due respect Ditch, that is just bull.
The trailers, tow vehicles (F350 or Chevy 3500) and dive support trucks for the reserve units, which are assigned as assets for Harbour Defence teams and Port Inspection Dive teams, have been purchased by NAVRES right from the start, and so have their replacements. They are already fully authorized at all levels that need to authorize them and are part of the Naval Reserve Units permanent entitlement. This goes back almost 20 years now (when you joined?) and has always been fully authorized - thankfully in fact since the very year after all the NRD got them as a result of the Navy acquiring and paying for them directly, they were ALL required for the Winnipeg Flood relief mission.
There is no comparison between this - replacement of an already authorized vehicle - and your independent decision to get some extra bling vehicles for your base defence team, equipment that was not part of their actual entitlement to start with.
Finally, anyone can see right away that the shiny new trailer, which if you read the whole story is meant as a replacement for an old one, will actually cause less fiscal stress on your poor 17 Wg TEME to maintain and support than the old one it is replacing used to cause.
And BTW, all those vehicles at the Naval Reserve Units, they are NOT part of 17 Wg TEME's fleet of vehicle. They belong to the RCN.
Edited to add: I don't know what maintenance and support by TEME is required. In my time in the Naval Reserve, short of an accident totalling the thing, we took care of all the maintenance and repairs to our boats and trailers at the Unit level. We have all the trained bosn, mechanics and other techs that can ever be required to do all this in-house: it's part of their trades.
The trailers, tow vehicles (F350 or Chevy 3500) and dive support trucks for the reserve units, which are assigned as assets for Harbour Defence teams and Port Inspection Dive teams, have been purchased by NAVRES right from the start, and so have their replacements. They are already fully authorized at all levels that need to authorize them and are part of the Naval Reserve Units permanent entitlement. This goes back almost 20 years now (when you joined?) and has always been fully authorized - thankfully in fact since the very year after all the NRD got them as a result of the Navy acquiring and paying for them directly, they were ALL required for the Winnipeg Flood relief mission.
There is no comparison between this - replacement of an already authorized vehicle - and your independent decision to get some extra bling vehicles for your base defence team, equipment that was not part of their actual entitlement to start with.
Finally, anyone can see right away that the shiny new trailer, which if you read the whole story is meant as a replacement for an old one, will actually cause less fiscal stress on your poor 17 Wg TEME to maintain and support than the old one it is replacing used to cause.
And BTW, all those vehicles at the Naval Reserve Units, they are NOT part of 17 Wg TEME's fleet of vehicle. They belong to the RCN.
Edited to add: I don't know what maintenance and support by TEME is required. In my time in the Naval Reserve, short of an accident totalling the thing, we took care of all the maintenance and repairs to our boats and trailers at the Unit level. We have all the trained bosn, mechanics and other techs that can ever be required to do all this in-house: it's part of their trades.
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