Operation NANOOK

August 3, 2010
Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) Montreal and HMCS Goose Bay (background) shortly after departing from St. John’s Newfoundland transiting towards the Arctic to participate in Operation NANOOK.
Operation NANOOK is one of three major recurring sovereignty operations conducted annually by the Canadian Forces (CF) in Canada's Arctic. Planned and directed by Joint Task Force North (JTFN) the whole-of-government operation highlights interoperability, command and control, and cooperation with interdepartmental and intergovernmental partners in the North. Operation NANOOK 10 takes place in Canada's Eastern and High Arctic area from August 6 to 26 and includes two major exercises, Exercise NATSIQ, a sovereignty and presence patrolling exercise of military resources, and Exercise TALLURUTIIT a whole-of -government exercise that focuses on environmental containment and remediation resulting from a simulated fuel spill. For the full caption…

Joint Support Ships explained

With all the Defense related contract stuff going on it’s understandable that people get confused and lost. Here is an excellent article explaining some of the issues and history regarding our painful attempts to replace HMCS Preserver and HMCS Protecteur our last two supply ships. The replacement program is called; “Joint Support ship” or JSS. To cut a long story short, we asked for to much and were willing to pay to little, sort of liking want Mercedes luxury and features, while willing only to pay a Pontiac Firefly price.