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National Defence committee The military training and cooperation program has been running since 1993, and we have about 1,100 Ukranian officers go through our system. A lot of it is associated with language training. You understand that is certainly an important part, but we do have some courses we run wit
October 21st, 2014Committee meeting
RAdm Gilles Couturier
National Defence committee Each service has a warfare centre and each unit that is being deployed is sending their information, their lessons learned, back there. We roll that back up so the next unit deploying has an opportunity to get some of those lessons and some recommendations on how to fix some of t
October 21st, 2014Committee meeting
RAdm Gilles Couturier
National Defence committee The Russia fleet has some ships that are capable. We've seen them in operation and we've watched them from the result of their various missile shoot exercises. They are used to operating on their own, so if you compare that to what we're doing in NATO...and that's again one of th
October 21st, 2014Committee meeting
RAdm Gilles Couturier
National Defence committee Neither do I; I have to admit that we don't have that opportunity regularly.
October 21st, 2014Committee meeting
RAdm Gilles Couturier
National Defence committee If I may, I will say that there is also a naval presence in addition to the air presence. We have gone to the Black Sea for the first time since 1992 and have worked with countries such as Turkey. In addition, we have entrusted the Canadian vessel with the responsibility for the
October 21st, 2014Committee meeting
RAdm Gilles Couturier
National Defence committee Trust is also being built between sailors, pilots and ground crews. The opportunity to work together and to discuss what in technical terms we call tactics, techniques and procedures, makes the groups more cohesive when the time for operations comes, whether for exercises or huma
October 21st, 2014Committee meeting
RAdm Gilles Couturier
National Defence committee At this stage we're quite pleased to see the investment and be able to share some of our own experience in that field. But that's pretty well the main area. There is no other element associated to the work that we're doing.
October 21st, 2014Committee meeting
RAdm Gilles Couturier
National Defence committee Just from a naval perspective, while the ship was in the Black Sea program, for example, we did some port visits. Doing that creates two messages: one is the closeness we're displaying with the country we are visiting; the other is to show some Canadian resolve in the region. We
October 21st, 2014Committee meeting
RAdm Gilles Couturier
National Defence committee Absolutely. The importance of having a NATO group is not only to show the ships, but show the capability of the ships to work together. That's creating an opportunity for us to display that skill through all the training that's ongoing, while we're deploying in their region. I th
October 21st, 2014Committee meeting
RAdm Gilles Couturier
National Defence committee The sailor side of me says that here are some measures the captain takes to identify a threat or non-threatening aircraft, and based on the flight pattern and everything else that the captain was seeing, there was no threat to the ship. If it is a buzz or an overflight, depending
October 21st, 2014Committee meeting
RAdm Gilles Couturier