National Defence committee  Yes, it's great. When we met last, this was one of my recommendations, and maybe it's a future target, to get to a port of call and meet the ship's company and spend some time with them. You would get a great feel for what's being accomplished. I think navies in general are prett

National Defence committee  Thanks, Mr. Chair.

National Defence committee  I will personally pass your comments to General Winnick, the Commander of the Army.

National Defence committee  Any of you want to kick-start this?

National Defence committee  It's a great question.

National Defence committee  Those are great answers from my colleagues. We will need to look to invest in some of these new priorities. I think of the new structures that are establishing themselves. You may be familiar with the new logistics command entity, which I'm sure you would recognize. I think we ha

National Defence committee  I recommend that we take that one. I don't have that level of detail for you at the moment.

National Defence committee  Thank you for your comments. I know that one of the great opportunities when troops come home to Canada is to greet them; it's the families and the chain of command, but if you ever get the chance to participate in that, I'm sure you'd be welcome to do that. I would highly recomm

National Defence committee  I'll add that we're certainly seeing the benefit. The NATO AWACS will operate overhead our troops in Latvia by, but one example, operating, as I mentioned earlier, overhead the airspace of Iraq, so we're accruing a benefit on the ground, and I think in the policy recently release

National Defence committee  When you're the commandant of an incredible institution—

National Defence committee  One of the benefits of being the commandant is that you get to see the wonderful work and efforts of the youth of our country. In fact, RMC has been sending a model NATO team to a competition somewhere in New York. I apologize, but I can't remember what town. As I recall, that

National Defence committee  I think the example in Carleton.

National Defence committee  That I would have to confirm. I'm not aware of that particular activity. I'm aware of the model NATO effort that occurs. We hosted one at the college while I was commandant. We ran a similar type of activity, because I think it's great in terms of the skills that it brings to b

National Defence committee  The only point I would add—and I'm not an expert—but I know NATO has NATO-Russia consultations, which is dialogue. You probably were briefed on that when you were over at NATO headquarters. Things such as exercises, like a large-scale Russian exercise on the edge of the Baltics,

National Defence committee  The example comes to mind, we had the air force participating last year in an air mobility exercise in northern Australia. We do certainly conduct exercises of course. General Seymour would know intimately based on his service within the Pacific command. The annual RIMPAC exercis