NAC News – Edition 238
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Rod Hughes
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NOTICES
Membership Renewals
Once again it is that time of year for members to renew their membership. As you all well know these dues allow your local Branch and National organization to fund activities. The earlier you are able to renew, the better placed your Branch and National can be in committing funds to our programs. On behalf of all NAC Branches and National, I want to thank you, the member, for supporting NAC.
NAC Naval Affairs Program – Staff Position Postings
Please find attached two (2) job descriptions for paid positions that will allow NAC to implement its naval affairs program. If you think you are a suitable candidate for one of these positions please consider applying. If you know of a suitable candidate(s) or an institution(s) in your community where suitable applicants may be found, please contact/forward these postings or pass this information to the NAC Executive Director, David Soule (executive director-nac@outlook.com). Background details in regard the NAC’s Naval Affairs program plan can be found at: Naval Affairs Strategy and Plan Information Brief
Job Postings:
- Co-ordinator Naval Affairs-Naval Association of Canada
- NavalAffairs-Naval Association of Canada (NAC)-Research Coordinator
Shipbuilding Technology Forum in Ottawa all day 1 March 2018
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CANADA
- Even one is too many
- Canada’s Asterix Completes Navy Trials
- HMCS St. John’s departs on Operation Reassurance
- Navy commodore plays down Canada’s encounter with Russian warships
- PHOTOS: HMCS Summerside, Kingston head for Africa
- Retired army officer sets up legal defence fund for suspended vice-admiral Mark Norman
- Opinion: Shipbuilding, not ship-leasing, is the right choice for Canada
- $704-million upgrade for navy’s ‘R2-D2’ rapid-fire war ship guns
- Parliamentarians become sailors for a day
- GVHA (Greater Victoria Harbour Authority) Welcomes New Directors
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USA & AMERICAS
- CIA chief says China ‘as big a threat to US’ as Russia (a number of videos to watch)
- Is the United States the new Saudi Arabia?
- The Future of Navy Combat Systems
- More Punishments Issued for Fatal Western Pacific Destroyer Collisions; Dates Set for Initial D.C. Criminal Hearings
- USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: Jan. 29, 2018
- ★ General Quarters: Evolving Combat Casualty Care at Sea
- Domestic Maritime Training: In Extremis
- America ARG ships pull into Pearl Harbor on deployment’s final stop
- Pearl Harbor welcomes new attack submarine, and another USS Missouri
- VIDEO: Coast Guard Fighting New Stealthy, Fast Drug Smuggling Vessels in Pacific
- Coast Guard Offloads $721 Million Worth of Cocaine in San Diego
- Report to Congress on The Purple Heart
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INDO-ASIA PACIFIC
- Chinese navy preparing for island dispute: expert
- Chinese flights scrapped in Taiwan row
- Australia aims to become ‘top 10’ defence exporter
- Port photos show PLA may have developed naval railgun
- When Australian nuclear weapons could make sense
- India boosts maritime reach with Seychelles pact to build naval facilities
- India launches 3rd Scorpene-class submarine
- South Korea’s HHI Delivered the Seventh Type 214 KSS-2 Submarine to ROK Navy
- SDV 1000W: South Korea’s 10-person military submersible
- Salvage Crews Working to Recover Sanchi’s Bunker Fuel
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ATLANTIC & EUROPE
- UK MoD could face budget shortfall of more than £20bn, report finds
- Russian jet flies within 1.5 metres of U.S. Navy plane over Black Sea
- CMA CGM Takes Delivery of 20,600 TEU Flagship
- U.S., Russia Propose Bering Strait Ship Traffic Routing Measures
- UK’s fourth Tide-class tanker RFA Tideforce named in South Korea
- Polaris Commences Icebreaking in Bothnian Bay
- Irish Wave Buoy to Be Deployed at US Navy Test Site
- Spanish research ship ‘Hespérides’ starts second phase of Antarctic campaign
- Croatia to Speed up Building of LNG Terminal in Adriatic
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MIDDLE EAST & REST-OF-THE-WORLD
- ★ Davos oblivious to one of free trade’s gravest threats
- ★ How China spied on the African Union’s computers
- Ninety migrants, mostly Pakistanis, believed dead in shipwreck off Libya – IOM
- The Gates of Tears: Interests, Options, and Strategy in the Bab-el-mandeb Strait
- Hyundai Heavy Industries, KOTC Ink Gas Carriers Deal
- Iran, the hollow hegemon
- Iranian Drone Missions on the Rise in the Persian Gulf as Small Boat Harassment Drops
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SCUTTLEBUTT –
Biography: Petty Officer William Hall, VC
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