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Below, two events over the holidays...Santa and snow.

Above: Santa skated with kids at the Wurtele arena on Dec. 20. Below: Base Transport struggled to keep roads and parking lots cleared during the onslaught of snow.

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The ship’s company of HMCS Edmonton pay tribute to their new commander, LCdr Patrick Montgomery, with three cheers on Dec. 18 after the change in command ceremony.

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In an effort to retain corporate knowledge, potential DND mentors and mentees are being asked to take part in a new mentoring program. The Director General of Learning and Professional Development (DGLPD) in conjunction with ADM HR-Civ has created a new online database for

ian employees are managed by military members in our department,” she adds. Mentors fill out a profile, while mentees submit their goals and learning objectives into the database. The database then matches mentees’ stated leadership learning objectives with up to three mentors, whose skills meet those learning needs. The mentee chooses a men-

Public Service civilian and military mentors. “Many civilians are due to retire in five to seven years, and that’s a real concern for succession planning. While it’s great to recruit new employees, corporate knowledge is walking out the door,” says Lucia Scianname, team leader with DGLPD. “We decided to invite military members to be part of the program because 60 per cent of civil-

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Also announced, 2008 Colonel/Captain(N) promotions and appointments • Capt(N) M.S. Adamson was appointed Commanding Officer FMF Cape Breton in Esquimalt replacing Capt(N) A.F.G. Rueben. • Cdr S.E.G. Bishop was promoted Capt(N) and remained on the advanced training list/French language training at CFLS Ottawa. • LCol G.J. Blais was promoted Col and appointed Director Casualty Support Management at NDHQ Ottawa. • Cdr E.F. Boettger was promoted Capt(N) (acting while so employed) and appointed commander Joint Task Force Pristina. • LCol S.M. Cadden was promoted Col and remained on the advanced training list/national security programme at CFC Toronto. • LCol J.P. Celestino was promoted Col and appointed Commander 31 Canadian Brigade Group, LFCA in Toronto replacing Col C.D. Judd who retired. • LCol J.C.G. D’amours was promoted Col and appointed Quebec area Liaison Officer to the Canadian Forces Liaison Council in Quebec. • LCol R.N.H. Dickson was promoted Col and appointed Deputy Chief of Staff Reconstruction and Development RC(S) in Afghanistan. • LCol J.M. Fletcher was promoted Col and appointed to the Chaplain General Branch at NDHQ Ottawa. • LCol P. Kelly was promoted Col and appointed Chief of Staff Director General Land Reserve Secretariat at NDHQ Ottawa. • LCol D.A. Patterson was promoted Col and appointed assistant Chief of Staff Support, LFCA in Toronto replacing Col Ross. • Col M.J. Pearson was appointed Director Plans Western Hemisphere - Strategic Joint Staff at NDHQ Ottawa replacing Col P.P.J. Lessard who retired. • Col P. Rutherford proceeded on the advanced training list to undertake studies at the Royal College of Defence Studies in London, UK. • LCol B.J. Smith was promoted Col and appointed J2x Chief of Defence Intelligence Staff at NDHQ Ottawa replacing Col C. Rousseau. • LCol D.L.R. Wheeler was promoted Col (acting while so employed)and appointed Deputy Director AAOC International Security Assistance Force HQ in Afghanistan.

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Above: Out-going Commanding Officer of HMCS Edmonton, Cdr Anthony Evans; Commander Maritime Operations Group Four, Capt(N) Gilles Couturier; and LCdr Patrick Montgomery sign the change of command papers transferring command of the ship to LCdr Montgomery. The change of command ceremony took place at the Naval Officer’s Training Centre Venture on Dec. 18. Inset: LCdr Montgomery addresses his new crew following the Change of Command ceremony.

Get involved in training workforce From page 1 kick off the program, where potential participants can get a wealth of information and have access to resources, including a mentoring toolkit. An online course is available to anyone thinking of enrolling in the program, and program coordinators recommend participants complete it before signing on. All DND indeterminate employees are eligible to be mentees; they just need their immediate supervisor’s permission to sign up. “This is something civilian employees have been asking about for years and years,” said Patricia Nelson, HR Corporate Advisor for the DGLPD. “We’re really hoping that supervisors and management support this program by allowing their employees time to participate without making them feel they’re falling behind or letting their unit down.”

A mentoring pilot project was conducted across DND between September 2005 and June 2006. With results and recommendations in hand, program coordinators were able to build a sustainable online database capable of matching mentors and mentees based on their learning objectives. For more information about the DND Mentoring Program and to register, visit the website at: http://hr.dwan.dnd.ca/hrciv/dglpd/dlpdps/en/home_e. asp?reference=110530014.

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During the change of command ceremony welcoming LCdr Patrick Montgomery as captain of the HMCS Edmonton on Dec. 18, Lookout asked the following question:

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“Right now I’m trying to focus on giving back to my community. As an auxiliary RCMP volunteer in Prince George, I want to make my community a better place in any way I can. Most people look for the community to give to them, but I feel I have a lot to give. This voluntary position usually involves 160 hours a year but I’ve been doing 800 to 1,000 hours for the past four years. And next year, I want to contribute more than ever. I love it.”

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“My hopes for the New Year are always for my children. We have a new sonin-law who is in the Navy, so we are always thinking about the young people who work in the military. I hope the economic situation and the situation in the East improves, so that they can have a good future and prosperous life.” Barbara Hendel, friend of LCdr Montgomery’s family

“I’m studying in my first year at UVic taking biochemistry, and finding it extremely challenging. I study all the time. So this year I really want to get good grades. That way I’ll be able to make future decisions on what I want to do.”

“I want to go to sea. I’ve been in the military for 21 years and I love to see the coast and see parts of this province that 95 per cent of the population will never see in their lives. I’d also love to take my family and travel to the interior of B.C. It’s the best place to go.”

Nathaniel Doherty, son of HMCS Edmonton’s executive officer, LCdr Timothy Doherty

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“My hope for 2009 is not having my dad away for five months like last year. I’d also like to go to Prince Edward Island for the B.C. summer games for sailing. I’ve been sailing at Canadian Forces Sailing Association for the past few months on Saturday mornings. I like it and I like getting wet. I hope to compete to make it to the Olympics in sailing.” Matthew Montgomery, son of LCdr Patrick Montgomery

David Phillips, friend of LCdr Patrick Montgomery

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Jim Marrʼs Morris Minor: One in a million Jim Marr of Moncton, New Brunswick, will never forget his first car – a 1961 Morris Minor One Million, an anniversary model to commemorate the one millionth Minor built since production began in 1948. The actual millionth Morris Minor was completed at the factory on Thursday, December 22, 1960, and was given serial number 1,000,000. It was the first British car to reach this production total. The next 349 Morris Minors were replicas of the original one millionth. All were given a lilac exterior, white leather interior, a silver commemorative plaque on the dash, and bonnet and boot (hood and trunk) badges with the number 1000000 replacing the customary “Minor 1000.” Otherwise, these cars were identical to the regular production twodoor Minors with the 948 cc four-banger under the hood. Of the “Minor One Million” 320 were sold on the British market after being on display in dealers’ showrooms, 21 with lefthand-drive were shipped to

Canada, and the remaining nine (also left-hand-drive) were shipped elsewhere. Jim Marr might have owned the only one in New Brunswick. He bought his in 1966 and drove it over 200,000 miles. The actual millionth car is owned today by someone in Warwickshire, and probably the best preserved (#1,000,257) is the one owned by Bradburn & Wedge Ltd., a garage in Wolverhampton. It shows only 1500 miles on the odometer. The one million Morris Minors built between 1948 and 1961 represent a million stories waiting to be told. Toronto historian Mike Filey’s first car was a 1949 Morris Minor purchased for fifty dollars when the car was ten years old. It had only one option, “a heater, the fan of which was under the passenger seat. Turn the device on and the person sitting beside me would rise two or three inches. The car also had mechanical brakes, a set of flipper directional signals, and a constant aroma of burning oil.”

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December Husband and wife doctor team, Dr. Steven Kraus and general surgeon Dr. Rachel Barton from Duncan received a Canadian Forces Task Force Afghanistan Medal for their work on the Canadian Surgical Team at the Kandahar Airfield base hospital.

October HMC Ships Protecteur and Calgary return from a sixmonth deployment as part of CTF 150 in Operation Altair Roto 4.

Fleet School got a new 76 mm Oto-Melara gun to train sailors in hands-on maintenance and repairs.

A CT-114 Tutor aircraft from 431 (Air Demonstration) Squadron crashed 2.5 km northwest of 15 Wing Moose Jaw during a formation photo flight. Capt Bryan “Mav” Mitchell, and Sgt Charles “Chuck” Senecal, died.

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Bob Blumer, the host of the Food Network’s culinary adventure show Glutton for Punishment cooked dinner in HMCS Winnipeg’s galley for 240 hungry sailors while the ship was deployed for TGEX. Canadian Forces Fleet School Esquimalt renamed the structure that houses its seamanship division to the CPO1 James D. Carroll building.

CFB Esquimalt welcomes a new formation chaplain, Maj Paul Acton.

September The Lieutenant Governor of B.C. unveiled a commemorative cairn in Pioneer Square next to Christ Church Cathedral, dedicated to all who served and fell in battle since the First World War. Building D50 in HMC Dockyard was reopened as headquarters for Joint Task Force Games. CFB Esquimalt’s Government of Canada Workplace Charitable Campaign kicked-off. Sgt Prescott Shipway was killed after his armoured vehicle struck and improvised explosive device during a security patrol of Panjwayii District, Afghanistan. HMCS Winnipeg is the first ship on the West Coast to discard the Chemox firefighting equipment and adopt the Drager Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) equipment used by civilian firefighters. Cpl Andrew Paul Greenon, Pte Chadwick James Horn and Cpl Michael James Alexander Seggie were killed Sept.3 in Kandahar. All three were infantrymen with the 2nd Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry based in Shilo, Manitoba.

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HMC Ships Regina and Ottawa returned to CFB Esquimalt from a four-month deployment that took them first to the Far East, and then the to Rim of the Pacific exercise in the coastal waters off Hawaii.

July Capt(N) Marcel Hallé took command of CFB Esquimalt from Capt(N) Mike Williamson in a change of command ceremony.

HMC Ships Regina and Ottawa made naval history when they fired harpoon missiles at a target in the Pacific Ocean simultaneousy. The weapons testing was part of the RIMPAC multinational training exercise at the Pacific Missile Firing Range off the Hawaiian Island of Kauai.

The Canadian Forces appointed its newest Honourary Captain(N). Vancouver Lawyer, Lyall Knott was bestowed the honourary position.

Pte Colin Wilmot, a medic serving with the Health Services Support Unit in Afghanistan, died when an explosive device detonated near a dismounted security patrol.

June Cmdre Nigel Greenwood is the Sea Combat Commander embarked on U.S.S. Kitty Hawk for RIMPAC 08.

HMC Ships Regina and Ottawa leave for RIMPAC 08. They are joined by Fleet Diving Unit Pacific. RIMPAC 08 is also the first year the Canadian Forces sent an army contingent to RIMPAC, Alpha Company from 1st Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry.

HMCS Protecteur towed a stranded dhow to dry and. Protecteur towed the boat to Bossaso, Somalia, after providing food, water

A Sea King Pilot from HMCS Ottawa was awarded the Governor General of Canada Medal for Bravery after giving underwater artificial respiration to a man who had fallen off the Zodiac boat he was driving. Capt Richard “Steve” Leary was killed by direct fire when a joint Afghan-Canadian dismounted security patrol came under small arms fire in the Panjwayi District of Afghanistan. May Former Olympian Silken Laumann joined students and staff from Ecole John Stubbs Memorial for the official opening of their new playground. The former HMCS Annapolis made its final departure from Esquimalt Harbour. It was towed to Howe Sound where it will be stripped and cleaned before being sunk as an artificial reef. While en route to Asia HMCS Ottawa assisted the U.S. Coast Guard in capturing two illegal fishing vessels 600 miles south of the Aleutian Islands. HMCS Protecteur set a record when the ship’s company conducted six replenishments at sea in succession. The evolution took six hours and was conducted in the Mediterranean Sea. B.C. Premier, Gordon Campbell, paid a visit to HMCS Ottawa while she was alongside in Korea. Canadian Forces Auxiliary Vessel Glendyne once again proved a crowd pleaser, earning its second straight People’s Choice Award at this year’s Seattle Maritime Festival. Funding was announced for the Esquimalt Military Family Resource Centre to create a new day care centre at the former Lampson Street School. Cpl Michael Starker was killed when he came under fire during a patrol in the Pashmul region of the Zharey District of Afghanistan. Legislation was announced by the British Columbia government to protect the civilian jobs of reservists.

HMCS Iroquois departed Halifax Harbour to rendezvous with HMCS Protecteur and HMCS Calgary in the Caribbean and sail together to the Arabian Sea where Cmdre Bob Davidson assumed command of Combined Task Force 150. The ribbon is cut at the grand re-opening of the Pacific Galley at Nelle’s Block. HMC Ships Calgary and Protecteur departed on a sixmonth tour of the Persian Gulf on Roto 4 of Operation Altair. HMC Ships Regina and Ottawa left on a four-month deployment to the Far-East and the Rim of the Pacific multi-national training exercise off Hawaii. Pte Terry John Street was killed when the armoured vehicle he was in struck an improvised explosive device in the Panjwayi District of Afghanistan. The Harlem Ambassadors took on the CFB Esquimalt Tritons All Stars in a friendly game of Basketball at the Naden Athletic Centre. March Hundreds of base employees learned about health and fitness programs offered by Personnel Support Programs at the Passport to Fitness event. To celebrate the 2010 centennial of the formation of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), St. Paul’s Naval and Garrison Church on Esquimalt Road plans to depict the history of the RCN in a stained glass window. The Chief of Defence Staff unveiled the Canadian Forces Health and Physical Fitness Strategy. Sgt Jason Boyes was killed by an explosive device while on foot patrol in the Zanghabad regional of Panjwayi district, Afghanistan.

February Crew members from HMCS Regina visited the ship’s namesake city last month, taking part in local events and donating their time and money to local charities. Army reservist troops returned to Work Point Barracks to attend their basic training course. It’s 10 years since Army green had been seen at Work Point.

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After years of holding HMCS Oriole’s spinnaker, the main mast has been removed to make way for a new piece of timber. January Army Combat divers from Canada, the United States and Belgium hunted for wreckage in the waters off Albert Head during Exercise Roguish Buoy, the army’s annual combat diving training event. Etienne Gonthier was killed when the armoured vehicle he was in struck an explosive device. Trooper Richard Renaud was killed when the armoured vehicle he was in struck an explosive device in southern Afghanistan. Cpl Eric Labbe and Warrant Officer Hani Massouh were killed when their light armoured vehicle rolled over in Nalgham in the Zhari District of Afghanistan. Comedian Rick Mercer brought television cameras to CFB Esquimalt to focus on Canada’s Pacific fleet. CFB Esquimalt gained the services of a K9 unit with Roxie, a chocolate Labrador, fully trained as a drug detection canine.

Ten members of CFB Esquimalt’s Pacific Naval Construction Troop (PNCT) headed to Jamaica to help build new training facilities.

The ballots were counted in the 20th Annual Navy Lighting contest, and HMCS Calgary won first place in the ships category while the Admiral’s residence won top prize for buildings.

Trooper Michael Yuki Hayakaze died when his armoured vehicle hit an explosive device in the Mushan District of Panjwayi, Afghanistan.

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Capt Jonathan Sutherland Snyder was killed after falling into a well while conducting a security patrol in Zhari District, Afghanistan.

April Victoria Shipyards Company Ltd was awarded a 12-year $351 million contract for ongoing maintenance and mid-life refit for the five Halifax-class frigates based on the West Coast.

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HMC Ships Yellowknife and Whitehorse departed Esquimalt for Task Group Exercise (TGEX) 03-08 on the morning of Oct. 27 for the warm waters of Southern California. Along with HMC Ships Regina and Winnipeg, these four ships constituted the Canadian component for naval exercises involving the USS John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group and the USS Boxer Expeditionary Group. The transit to California for Yellowknife and Whitehorse was spent preparing for the exercise under the watchful eye of Sea Training Pacific, with both ships conducting assisted work-ups. Several exercises were conducted to hone the crews’ skills in damage control, fire fighting, weapons shoots (.50 calibre heavy machine guns and the 40mm Bofor), man overboard recoveries, replenishments at sea (RAS), search and rescue, as well as a helicopter hoist (Helo Hoist) operations conducted with a Sea King helicopter from 443 Maritime Helicopter Squadron. On the afternoon of Nov. 1, Yellowknife and Whitehorse arrived in San Diego to disembark Sea Training personnel and conduct a short port visit. The next morning, Yellowknife embarked Commodore

Nigel Greenwood, the Commander Canadian Pacific Fleet, and Captain (Navy) Gilles Couturier, Commander Maritime Operations Group Four. The two Kingston class vessels then departed San Diego to rendezvous with Regina and Winnipeg to begin TGEX 03-08. The exercise really began for Yellowknife and Whitehorse on the morning of Nov. 4 with a combined .50 calibre HMG surface shoot at inflatable surface targets. Subsequent days were spent conducting force protection scenarios, more gunnery practice and naval intelligence gathering operations in order to develop the recognized maritime picture. With Point Loma sighted in fog on the morning of Nov. 5, Yellowknife and Whitehorse entered San Diego a second time to fuel and grant some shore leave to the crew. San Diego was welcoming to all four vessels with temperatures well into the mid 20’s Celcius. With three of the four ships berthed downtown at Broadway Pier, the crews were provided easy access to several local shops, attractions, beaches and museums. Yellowknife and Whitehorse departed San Diego on the morning of Nov. 10 to begin their role as opposition force (aka, enemy). With both ships correlating and passing contact information to our

Task Group Commander, a common maritime picture was developed and maintained throughout the exercise. This was crucial to the success of the opposition force mission: to harass and probe Stennis and Boxer groups. Several deceptive techniques were used to evade blue forces, with both Kingston Class vessels able to close and harass blue forces to very close ranges. The highlight of the exercise was when Yellowknife and Whitehorse disguised themselves as a tug and tow, evading the escorts, and close the Stennis to within six miles. Watching as the carrier launched and recovered F/A-18 Super Hornets at night was a sight many of the crew will not forget. Once Yellowknife and Whitehorse advertised the carrier battle group’s position to our consorts, we were allowed to become more aggressive towards the USN ships (known as Blue forces). Once blue forces pre-emptively fired upon (and “sank”) HMCS Whitehorse, “weapons free” was ordered, allowing Yellowknife to score several “hits” on Stennis - our high value target, and her missile escorts. Radios were busy with reports of imaginary missiles and gun fire racing across the waters of Southern California. This made for a very exciting day. As a momentary reprieve from the exercises, all Canadian ships took an important pause to reflect and pay remembrance to our fallen comrades. At the eleventh hour on the morning of Nov. 11, the ship’s company mustered on the foc’sle. Once the exercise finished, Yellowknife and Whitehorse were detached for their transit to San Francisco. The entrance to San Francisco was breathtaking; navigating under the Golden Gate Bridge was a first for many. Again, the crew enjoyed California, with trips to Alcatraz Prison, Napa Valley for winery tours, and the Golden Gate Bridge among many other sights. Departing on Nov. 19, all four Canadian ships began the journey north for home. Running at best speed to outrun an approaching winter storm, the ships rounded Race Rocks and proceeded into Esquimalt Harbour, completing the 800 mile trip in a record 51 hours, arriving a day early for some well deserved rest.

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