NAC News – Edition 240
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Rod Hughes
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- Admiral Mark Norman Legal Defence – GoFundMe
- Shipbuilding Technology Forum 2018
Theme: Agility Through Technology 1 March 2018 in Ottawa - Welcome to Canada’s Global Defence and Security Trade Show (EY Centre 4899 Uplands Drive in Ottawa, Ontario on May 30 – 31, 2018)
- Job Postings – NAC Naval Affairs Coordinator and Research Coordinator – Please check-out the following links and let the NAC Exec Dir know if you know of any potential candidates or share with folks/institutions you know may be able to assist:
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CANADA
- H.M.C.S. SACKVILLE inside S/M shed for 3 month Refit
- Atlantic Sea Kings make last flight by 423 Maritime helicopter Squadron
- NATO adds Canada and Poland to multinational maritime multi-mission aircraft effort
- Canada rejoins NATO’s AWACS program
- A Primer on Shipbuilding in Canada by Ian Mack
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USA & AMERICAS
- Seven things Trump’s $500bn spending splurge tells us
- PACOM CO Harry Harris Tapped to be Ambassador to Australia; U.S. 5th Fleet CO to Pacific Fleet
- ★ Panel: Navy and Coast Guard Operating More in a Maritime ‘Grey Zone’
- Master the Art of Command and Control
- USNI News Fleet Tracker: Feb. 12, 2018
- Navy to Grow Fleet by 46 Ships in 5 Years; Plans to Increase Deployed Hulls by 30 Percent
- Former USS John S. McCain XO Found Guilty of Dereliction of Duty
- Cummins expands genset range
- Secretary of the Navy Names Navy’s Newest Expeditionary Fast Transport Ship
- Secretary of the Navy Names Two Littoral Combat Ships
- US Icebreaker Suffers Flooding, Engine Failure in Antarctic
- Israel Shipyards launches first Argentine Coast Guard Shaldag-class patrol boat
- Keel Cooler Installation: Isolation vs. Bonding
- The US Navy’s new drone warship can drive itself as it hunts submarines
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INDO-ASIA PACIFIC
- US intelligence chief says ‘decision time’ on N Korea draws ‘ever closer’
- We need a navy to protect our supply routes
- BIMCO: China Breaks New Ground… Again
- ★ South China Sea Photos Suggest a Military Building Spree by Beijing
- The ‘globalisation’ of China’s military power
- Call for Input: A code of conduct for the Indian Ocean
- Factoring in Russian military power in the Indo-Asia–Pacific strategic calculus
- China: We are a ‘Near-Arctic State’ and we want a ‘Polar Silk Road’
- HHI Cut 1st Steel of Royal New Zealand Navy Future HMNZS Aotearoa Tanker
- Navy P-8A Poseidon Expanding Operations in Asia
- Russia’s Pacific Fleet to Upgrade 4 Nuclear Subs With Supersonic Cruise Missiles By 2021
- Indonesian navy seizes boat with one tonne of methamphetamines in waters off Batam
- Djibouti base won’t be the only one, ex-PLA admiral says
- British frigate to sail through South China Sea, says minister
- The Navy – protecting Australia (great video, “geography” will seem familiar)
- A pump-jet for the future submarine? Not so fast (or slow)
- Plan B: Australia’s foreign policy white paper
- (Chinese) Naval Medical University sends 7th medical expert team to Cambodia
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ATLANTIC & EUROPE
- NATO chief urges defense budget hike amid command expansion
- NATO Defense Ministers Approve New Alliance Commands
- France to hike defence spending by over 40 percent
- Foggo: U.S. Needs More Forward Presence in Mediterranean Sea
- Sovcomflot’s New Icebreaker Named (Sovcomflot is Russia largest maritime shipping company)
- Allseas Plans World’s Largest Construction Vessel
- Turkish minehunter finds historic mine in Black Sea
- New UK Sub Completes its First Dive
- Port of Hamburg Getting Ready for Future Growth
- Spanish frigate to lead Mediterranean operation Sea Guardian
- Keel laid for Turkish landing helicopter dock TCG Anadolu
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MIDDLE EAST & REST-OF-THE-WORLD
- French Navy Frigate Assumed Command of USS Theodore Roosevelt Air Defense
- Mysterious marine ecosystem hidden beneath Antarctic for 120,000 years to be explored by scientists
- Global sea level rise rate speeding up, 25 years of satellite data confirms
- TKMS cuts steel for first Israeli Sa’ar 6-class corvette
- One in six children ‘affected by conflict’ – Save the Children
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SCUTTLEBUTT
Hello Military/RCMP Veterans
It seams that yearly I am ask the following questions. Can we claim our medical and dental expenses on our income tax report? The short answer is yes. You can claim:
Premiums travel insurance cost
Premiums Medical insurance cost
Premiums Dental insurance cost
Medical Prescription (drugs) receipts 20% of the cost not paid by the insurance company
Dental Receipts 20% of the cost not paid by the insurance company and may be
Annual surcharge.
You can obtain on-line from Sun Life both Medical Claim Summary and a Dental Claim Summary that shows the “Amount Not paid by your Group Plan”, i.e. Out of pocket expenses claimable on our tax returns.
Thank you, BGEN (Ret’d) Murray Rambottom for the above information.
For Nova Scotia residents enter the total on your schedule 1 Federal tax form line 330. Medical expenses for self, Spouse…read it carefully! Provincial residents enter the total on your provincial form NS 428 line 5868
For other provinces, you need to check your Federal tax forms. I believe that you can go back 5 years, but this would be on a special request to the income tax people. Further information on Tax inquiries is available at 1-800-959-8281
Hope that the information can be of some assistance to you.
John
“Honour, Dignity, Justice, Equality!”
Sincerely,
John Labelle
Veterans Annuity Campaign
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Executive Director
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