Morale Amongst Sailors Was Good!
Heroes Remember - Gulf War
Morale Amongst Sailors Was Good!
Transcript
The media sometimes reported the
morale is not good out here, you know,
and the sailors said what ship is he sailing in,
you know, and that’s not the case.
But there’s one thing about sailors,
unless they’re complaining about something,
they’re not happy.
So, well the sticky buns this morning
didn’t have as much “oomph” to them as
they had yesterday, it’s a bit of a morale thing.
I would say, by and large, because we were so
focused and every sailor was focused,
every man and woman out there was focused
on what the job was, what we had to do.
Most were so doggone busy they
didn’t have a chance to think about morale.
The fact that we tried to get them ashore
for a few days to take a break,
most of them didn’t want to take a break
because you know until this is over
we are still in a war zone and
it’s dangerous stuff out here.
So from my perspective,
morale was unquestionably terrific
through the whole time even though there
were some complaints but not many, not many.
We asked every sailor to participate
in what we should be doing,
what we could be doing and why
we were doing it and how we were
doing it and they did and I think
that kept their morale up…
that we weren’t just out there
ignoring the sailor on the plates
in the engine room, we were talking
to the sailor in the engine room.
We were talking to each and
every sailor out there.
Description
Contrary to some media reports, everyone worked as a team and was focused on the duties at hand.
Meta Data
- Medium:
- Video
- Owner:
- Veterans Affairs Canada
- Recorded:
- February 27, 2016
- Duration:
- 1:36
- Person Interviewed:
- Duncan “Dusty” Miller
- War, Conflict or Mission:
- Canadian Armed Forces
- Location/Theatre:
- Persian Gulf
- Battle/Campaign:
- Gulf War
- Branch:
- Navy
- Units/Ship:
- HMCS Athabascan
- Date modified: