Navy Always my Choice

I thought if I am going to join, I am going to volunteer to go to Korea because that was where my friends were going so I said I want to be there, I want to volunteer for Korea so they put that down and gave me priority to get the next ship that would be going. But I had to be trained first, I had to have a trade. So I had to go to Halifax for my seamanship training and I went on a cruiser, Quebec, to do my seamanship training and when I finished that I, because I joined up in Winnipeg I was considered a west coast (inaudible) so my primary duties would be on the west coast. And so I got transferred to the west coast after I finished my basic training or my seamanship training and I had to take my trade course. I became a sonar man out of Esquimalt and when I finished my sonar course I got posted to the Crusader, the ship that was going to Korea. It had already just come back from Korea and it was going to get a short refit and go right back to Korea with a new crew which was us. I thought I had excellent training as an ordinary seaman and I was eager to practice what I had been learning on a very high performance destroyer which is what the Crusader was.