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Briefly, I'm in the Canadian Navy, and have been for about the past twelve years or so. I have three years of previous service, so I'm closing on fifteen years all told in uniform.

I spent the first three of those years as a radioman (the trade has since been amalgamated with signalmen and collectively they are known as Naval Communicators). During those three years I sailed aboard HMC Ships Huron and Protecteur, from the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

When I re-enlisted in 1992, I entered as an electrician. My first ship as an electrician was HMCS Vancouver, the first of the new Halifax-class frigates on the west coast, and in which I was a member of the commissioning crew (August 1993). I've also sailed onboard HMC Ships Regina, Winnipeg and Calgary.

I was posted ashore in 2001, to the Basic Recruit Training division of the Canadian Forces Fleet School in Esquimalt, where I spent two-and-a-half years training recruits. That was, for my money, one of the best postings I've had yet. Long hours, but a lot of fun.

I went back to sea onboard HMCS Algonquin in 2004, as the Senior IMCS Technician until June 2006, when I was on temporary duty reprising my glory days as a recruit instructor, this time at CFLRS Saint-Jean. I returned to the Algonquin in September and took up the duties of Shop PO until I was posted off this June (2007).

I am now posted as an electrical instructor to Canadian Forces Fleet School Esquimalt, in the Marine Systems Engineering division. My first course of student electricians will start at the end of July. Moulding young minds... I can't wait! Mwaaahahahahaha!

SOMETIMES I like to get away from the 20th century, by escaping into the past. I am a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, wherein I am known as Uilliam mac Aillén vhic Séamus, a Scottish merchant trader who met and married a Byzantine lass, circa 1000 A.D. Currently my SCA persona lives in the Barony of Seagirt, otherwise known as Victoria, BC, Canada. If you want to find out more, click on the link to my SCA page in the left-hand menu.

THIS is my family's coat of arms. It has been in the family since about the year 1240 or so, hence the (relatively) simple design. For those who are heraldically inclined, the blazon is Argent, chevron sable between three trefoils slipped vert. The blazon of the crest (above the helmet) is On a mount vert, a hind lodged Or.

Here's links to the web sites of the ships I've sailed on. Click on the badge to go to that ship's page.

Huron (decommissioned)

Protecteur

Vancouver

Regina

Winnipeg

Calgary

Algonquin

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