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    HMCS Onondaga on the rocks

    Yes... The Onondaga Project is an initiative of the Pointe-au-Père Maritime Historic Site and the city of Rimouski. The aim of the project is to convert a decommissionned Canadian submarine, HMCS Onondaga, into a submarine museum by pulling it out of the water and making it accessible to the...
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    HMCS Onondaga on the rocks

    Check out this web site http://www.radioman.ca/main_e3.htm (Project Onondaga) "RADIOMAN" seems to be on top of the story.
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    Ammunition Technical Officer

    Piper - Seeing from your profile, you're right... you are about 3 years away but keep ATO in your mind later on. It is well worth considering taking the extra training (nothing wrong with blowing $%it up). To all other members - Lots of vacancies, looking for lots of candidates... what the...
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    Ammunition Technical Officer

    Hello from the "Ammo School". I have been quite involved lately with the ATO specialty (not a trade but a specialty) and the specs were rewritten as a result of a study (Needs assessment) conducted in Jun 07. The study proposed 3 options, status quo (Course in UK followed by Canadian conversion...
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    In Flanders Field

    Credit given where credit is due, you're right Lieutenant-Colonel David McCrae "Born in Guelph, Ontario, on November 30, 1872". Check out http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=history/firstwar/mccrae
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    In Flanders Field

    Came across this poster. Time to remember.
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    MERX WATCH: Bye bye Oberon Class Subs

    Check out this thread for the latest on ONONDAGA http://forums.army.ca/forums/threads/79468.0.html
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    HMCS Onondaga on the rocks

    ONONDAGA IS WELL PLACED FOR A FINAL PULL IN NOVEMBER Monday 20 October 2008 When Onondaga shifted on Friday, she ended up in a good position on the ramp. That means she does not have to go back to Rimouski-Est for the winter. She will be righted in the next two weeks and she will be pulled all...
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    Canadian Forces Aptitude Test (CFAT) [MERGED]

    Seems like can't open the attachment. So here are those links LINKS TO MATHEMATICS Introduction to Mathematics and Algebra. http://tpub.com/math1/index.htm Basic Arithmetic Skills. Interactive Endless Examples and Exercises. Perfect your addition skills with these endless exercises.   Add...
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    Canadian Forces Aptitude Test (CFAT) [MERGED]

    Try the internet web pages on attached document (they should still be valid). This is what we provide our students if they feel they want to upgrade their math skills. Good luck
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    Can't Give Blood - Too Much Time On The Rhine

    Same thing for me and my family as I was on exchange in UK in 1989-90. One question that I would like answered is can I give blood to my own family??? (since we are all infected...)
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    Steward: Training/the work (merged)

    Just looking at the latest copy of the QSP and "The duration of this course is 61 days...", so roughly 12 weeks. And from what I can tell, it is only conducted in CFSAL Borden.
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    RPAS (was JUSTAS): the project to buy armed Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) UAVs

    Looks like the project is wide open to what the CF will eventually acquire. According to MERX: Project JUSTAS Procurement of a UAV System The Canadian Forces has a requirement to field and support interoperable, networkenabled Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Systems to provide Intelligence...
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    UK Soldier killed in Afghanistan, 9/11/08

    Actually WO2 O'Donnell was a British Ammo Tech http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/MilitaryOperations/WarrantOfficerClass2GarygazOdonnellGm11ExplosiveOrdnanceDisposalRegimentRoyalLogisticCorpsKilledInAf.htm
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    Need info with this old Explosive Ordnance

    And some tech data. This cartridge case was used for all the different types of ammo used in the CF (HESH-T, SH Pract, Smoke BE, Canister Shot and Blank). The case, which is identified by its Drawing Number RW175, is manufactured from brass by the deep drawing process. It is a tapered and...
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    HMCS Onondaga on the rocks

    Here are a couple of pictures from the French version of the Onondaga Project web site. It hasn't been translated yet. Check it out at http://www.shmp.qc.ca/html/nouvelles.htm So very briefly and quickly translated, it happened Sunday morning at 0600hrs as they were trying to line it up with the...
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    HMCS Onondaga on the rocks

    Here is a backgrounder on the project: http://www.dnd.ca/site/Newsroom/view_news_e.asp?id=1808 But I am still searching the news for any article (French and English) MTF
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    The "Diefenbreaker"

    First the "Diefenbunker" and now the "Diefenbreaker". The seven Emergency Government Headquarters (commonly referred to as Diefenbunkers) are nuclear fallout shelters that were built across Canada at the height of the Cold War, during the infancy of the ICBM threat. The nickname...
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    Civilain Employment in Kandahar

    x031, Did you try their web site (http://www.snc-lavalin.com/) and do a search on "Afghanistan" or "Career Opportunities". Good luck
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    Need info with this old Explosive Ordnance

    geo, Thanks for the suggestion. By the way, for the record, IVI has been closed for quite some times, renamed SNC and moved to SNC Ville Legardeur, wch has since been bought by General Dynamics and renamed again General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems-Canada Inc (GD-OTS Canada) Check...
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