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Sea King Politician Story:
I seem to remember the MND (93-94 timeframe) arriving in a American SeaHawk onboard HMCS Iroquois during OP Sharp Guard(94). He thought he was on Athabaskan and had to be reminded by a personal aid of what ship he was on.
He did the politician's speech and obligatory tour had lunch with the Admiral and whisked away while two good birds were sat in the barn.(Whats wrong with our helos, the senior maintainer asked)
The worst was yet to come, just after the Sea Hawk left(along w/ the MND), the teletype in the CCR rang off a pay freeze for the forces was imposed and banning the sale of cigarettes onboard HMCS ships.
(We were doing 21 day Adriatic Patrols.)
Our CO (Cdr Edmunds) was and is an outstanding officer and promptly sent the RHIB ashore with a cigarette carton list with peoples personal orders. The RHIB returned bristling with Davidoff's and Chesterfields and happy sailors onboard especially the cooks and stokers.
We joked later how the messages and the departure of the MND almost coincided perfectly.
Scandal after scandal broke and the CF almost never recovered.
Politics and the Sea Kings . The Legacy of the 90's and mid way in the new millennium.
I seem to remember the MND (93-94 timeframe) arriving in a American SeaHawk onboard HMCS Iroquois during OP Sharp Guard(94). He thought he was on Athabaskan and had to be reminded by a personal aid of what ship he was on.
He did the politician's speech and obligatory tour had lunch with the Admiral and whisked away while two good birds were sat in the barn.(Whats wrong with our helos, the senior maintainer asked)
The worst was yet to come, just after the Sea Hawk left(along w/ the MND), the teletype in the CCR rang off a pay freeze for the forces was imposed and banning the sale of cigarettes onboard HMCS ships.
(We were doing 21 day Adriatic Patrols.)
Our CO (Cdr Edmunds) was and is an outstanding officer and promptly sent the RHIB ashore with a cigarette carton list with peoples personal orders. The RHIB returned bristling with Davidoff's and Chesterfields and happy sailors onboard especially the cooks and stokers.
We joked later how the messages and the departure of the MND almost coincided perfectly.
Scandal after scandal broke and the CF almost never recovered.
Politics and the Sea Kings . The Legacy of the 90's and mid way in the new millennium.