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   Gord... Yes, it's wonderful to see the de-amalgamation and return to
   tradition. Back in the '70s, on a naval staff, I went to several NATO
   meetings in the Frozen North on meteorological coordination (isobars,
   you know). Our, then CF, counterparts* were old salts and obviously
   uncomfortable with the new arrangement, but they did receive a
   dispensation which allowed them to call themselves Commander, etc when
   dealing with we foreigners 'to avoid confusion'... Bob (ex-Isobar 181)
      * Sea story: Our German counterpart was a civilian but ex WW2
   Kriegsmarine officer. He had the distinction of being a meteoroligist
   on a submarine! (He launched weather balloons for the German
   forecasters in France.) He also had the distinction of being on the
   only German submarine actually captured by the US, not sunk. Wound up a
   POW down South. The US worked the enlisted prisoners (Bridge Over the
   River Kwai) but, of course, not the officers, which bored him doing
   nothing. After VE Day they started to let the officers work. When a US
   sergeant asked if anyone was a 'spotter' he volunteered. Turns out
   'spotting' was daubing various chemicals on stain spots in the base
   laundry. He didn't have the faintest idea of what chemicaly to use, so
   he got his revenge, in a way. He later hosted our meeting in Hamburg
   and was a champion beer drinker and pub crawl leader.

   On 10/03/13, Gordon Laco<[1]mainstay at csolve.net> wrote:

   Hello friends
   John is correct: although the services were amalgamated in '68, we got
   our distinctive uniforms back in '98, and our name (Royal Canadian
   Navy) back in 2010. We got the correct officers' curl in our rank
   stripes back in '11. (Those of you on the eastern half of North America
   may have heard me shout at my desk in Aug of 2010 when 'RCN' was
   reinstated)
   All proud bits of tradition and links to our forbearers who served in
   WWII when the RCN was the third largest navy in the world.
   There's a wonderful story about one of our officers being taunted by
   British officers during that war about ours being a young service,
   without traditions such as they had....the Battle of Trafalgar, for
   example. Our RCN officer replied "we're building our traditions daily:
   our Trafalgar is The Battle of the Atlantic and we're fighting and
   winning it now". I think his name was Alan Easton.
   Thank you, John
   Gord

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