Chosen as Part of the Persian Gulf Contingent
Heroes Remember - Gulf War
Chosen as Part of the Persian Gulf Contingent
Transcript
I had just recently been posted to the ship
that I eventually went to the Gulf on,
HMCS Athabaskan, and I was newly trained
naval electronics technician and when I got
there it was about four or five months before
the Persian Gulf exploded and I was in the
process of, you know, learning the ship and
learning the new equipment that
I was going to be working on.
I was a little older than a lot of the other
people that were on board so when the
government announced that they were
sending ships somebody sat down and decided
that I would make a good member of the crew.
I was sent down to a place in New York State
to try to garner information on a new piece of
electronic warfare equipment that was going
to be placed on the ship. I spent about a week
down there and then when I got back I had a
couple of days with my family and then the ship
went out off the coast there to do a mini
workups to try to work out any of the bumps
with all of the new equipment that
had been put on board.
The ships were outfitted very quickly with a
lot of new equipment that was designated
for the new ships that were supposed to be
coming out of line in the next few years.
And in less than three weeks probably,
a little bit more than two weeks,
the military combined with the civilian
DND dockyard workers accomplished what
can only be described as a small miracle.
They put, in that time frame,
they did enough work normally to have
taken a year, maybe a year and a quarter
and they did it in about two,
maybe a little more than two weeks.
Description
Mr. Snell explains the process he went through in becoming part of the crew on the HMCS Athabaskan and the work required in a short period of time before embarkment.
Meta Data
- Medium:
- Video
- Owner:
- Veterans Affairs Canada
- Recorded:
- February 27, 2016
- Duration:
- 3:02
- Person Interviewed:
- Bartley Snell
- War, Conflict or Mission:
- Canadian Armed Forces
- Location/Theatre:
- Canada
- Battle/Campaign:
- Gulf War
- Branch:
- Navy
- Units/Ship:
- HMCS Athabascan
- Occupation:
- Electronics Technician
- Date modified: