FSTO
Army.ca Fixture
- Reaction score
- 5,679
- Points
- 1,210
Pusser said:Having said all that, I have been posted both ashore and afloat on both coasts and will state this without hesitation: Canada has two navies. We dress alike and we paint our ships the same colour, but after that, the differences start to emerge. There are good thing and bad things about how the Navy works on each coast, but my preference is East. I find I like the Navy better there. In my view, the East Coasters seem to have a better sense of what's really important and the West Coast gets too wrapped around the axle about things that really aren't that big a deal. I had a lot more fun on the East Coast then I did on the West.
And what is that? Or is this the old "Operational Navy vs the Training Navy?'. I found that the East Coast is too set in its ways and not as receptive to new ideas and concepts. For example Naval Boarding Party Training. I found that NOS Halifax was indifferent or even hostile to getting more realistic in our training and in the end we basically forced CEASS down their throat.
This is only my observation but it has left a lasting effect on me.