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| Canadian, US forces announce joint exercise |
| 2005-02-18 |
| EFL. The Canadian Navy and Air Force will join forces with other Canadian government departments and the US Coast Guard in a bi-national domestic exercise designed to further develop coastal surveillance and security of Canada's Pacific maritime approaches. Exercise Sea Barrier will take place Feb 22 to 25 in and around the approaches to Esquimalt Harbour and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. A primary goal of the Sea Barrier exercise is to foster cooperation and coordination between the Navy and its partners including Transport Canada, the RCMP, Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), the Canadian Coast Guard, and the US Coast Guard to generate a unified and comprehensive recognized maritime picture. By sharing and comparing information, the Navy and its partners can develop an increased understanding of the marine domain and refine procedures to effectively respond to potential threats to the security of our maritime approaches. "The Strait of Juan de Fuca is one of our busiest bits of ocean," reiterates Rear Admiral Forcier. "Vancouver moves 66 million tonnes of cargo a year including over 1.5 million containers. Exercise Sea Barrier will enhance our ability to defend and protect our trade, and ultimately our way of life", concludes Forcier. HMC ships Protecteur, Algonquin, Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Whitehorse, supported by CH-124 Sea King helicopters from 443 Maritime Helicopter Squadron, CP-140 Aurora Aircraft from 407 Maritime Patrol Squadron at Comox and a team of clearance divers from Fleet Diving Unit (Pacific) will participate in the exercise with U.S. Coast Guard ships Cuttyhunk and Henry Blake, the Canadian Coast Guard Ship Sir Wilfred Laurier, and RCMP and CBSA teams. Training activities will include briefings, surveillance patrols, simulated explosives disposal, maritime interdiction and boardings at sea. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 I used to have an mp3 of this... Good bye papa please pray for me My helicopter's crashing in the sea. I honestly don't mean to poke But my future is in doubt My co-pilot just fell out Good bye papa it's hard to fly When my air frame's cracking in the sky For every hour in the air It takes some thirty to repair We fly these things on a dare We had joy we had fun We had sea kings in the sun But the engines are on fire And the sea kings must retire Good bye good chair my stingy one You could have bought the E-age warner ones Instead you blew five hundred mil Just to cancel out the bill Now I need an airsick pill. We had joy we had fun We had sea kings in the sun We'll be lucky if we reach A crash landing on the beach. |
| Posted by: Phil Fraering 2005-02-18 11:06:27 PM |
| #4 Canada is reportedly eliminating between 1/3 to 1/2 of their relatively new F-18 aircraft fleet - doing their Canuck all to make NORAM safer for the Commie Airborne. * "ATTACK/INVADE ME NOW, D*** YOU, aka Savin' Hillary, and Hillary and Boxer-Pelosi-Dean for POTUS!? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2005-02-18 10:06:21 PM |
| #3 The Aurora's (Canadian equivalent of the P3-Orion ASW aircraft) are much newer - only a 25 years old. |
| Posted by: AJackson 2005-02-18 6:38:11 PM |
| #2 Facts about the Sea Kings - they're antique aircraft: The Sikorsky CH-124 Sea King: Canada bought 41 Sea King helicopters in 1963; 28 are still in service. Each of the remaining Sea Kings requires 30 hours of maintenance for one hour of flight. The Sea Kings were first purchased in the 1960s. In 1993, then prime minister Jean Chrétien cancelled an order for 50 EH-101 helicopters to replace them. From: http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/01/12/canada/sea_kings040112 |
| Posted by: AJackson 2005-02-18 6:35:53 PM |
| #1 No hockey season, so they've got to keep themselves busy somehow... |
| Posted by: Jonathan 2005-02-18 4:32:49 PM |