Join the Navy to See the World
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Join the Navy to See the World
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Being 18, you’re so full of life and everything is so exciting,
that I found it very exhilarating to think that I was going to
be going on a ship and not knowing exactly where I’d end up.
And certainly, that’s the way it happened. We were very, very
fortunate in getting on a cruiser, because we didn’t go back and
forth across the Atlantic. We took off and went places where
most corvettes or frigates didn’t go. So, even though we were
in the navy less than three years, we had a trip around the
world and as they say. You join the navy to see the world. We
took our basic training, or some basic training, in Chippewa, in
Winnipeg. And then we went down to HMCS Cornwallis, which is a
base near Digby, Nova Scotia, that had just been opened up, and
it was right on the Bay of Fundy. So we spent three months
there, taking basic training. And then, after that, we had to
decide what trade we would take. And I decided that I would
like to become a torpedo man. Now, I’m not sure why, but that
seemed to fascinate me more than anything else. A torpedo man
encompasses a fair bit of different fields, such as, well,
torpedoes naturally. But it covers communication maintenance,
it covers electrical, depth charges, and demolitions. So
there’s a full range of things that you could be doing within
that trade. So that made it fascinating,
and I certainly enjoyed that aspect.
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