Volume 55 Number 30 | July 26, 2010 Anne Flynn Don Barr Mortgage Consultant Mortgage Consultant 250-516-5262 250-744-6984 Why rent when you can buy? Call about our free down payment mortgages. MARPAC NEWS CFB Esquimalt, Victoria, B.C. www.annefl ynn.ca Year of the Canadian Naval Centennial NEWS 2 Victoria flag returns home from Afghanistan COMMUNITY 6 Naden Band brings navy touch to Symphony Splash FEATURE 8 JJobob Korean War remembered wwellell ddoneone 2Lt Trevor Reid, DND “Nice toss,” said PO2 Jacob Underwood, a submariner from HMCS Victoria, after a young Calgary Stampede visitor suc- cessfully tossed a rope through a kisbee ring at the Kids’ Day obstacle course. 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Staff writer Once the flag was back in Victoria, LS Eley and sev- A little bit of Afghanistan eral other military members dust made its way to who had recently returned Victoria City Hall last from Afghanistan made the Thursday when a group trip to City Hall to thank of Afghanistan veterans the mayor in person. returned a City of Victoria “More than 30 local flag to Mayor Dean Fortin military people have and council. just returned from an For six months the flag Afghanistan rotation. On graced the entrance to behalf of the people of Camp Nathan Smith, locat- Victoria and the communi- ed in the heart of Kandahar ties of Southern Vancouver City, bringing a piece of Island, we do want to say home to Victoria-based welcome home. The peo- men and women serving ple of the region are really there. grateful for your service. The camp’s public affairs I also want to extend my office started a program warmest regards to your where military members families and loved ones as could email their local their strength and determi- mayor and request a city nation while you were away flag. is an effort also deserving When LS Gareth Eley of recognition,” said Mayor arrived, he joined up and Fortin. sent a letter to Mayor As LS Eley stepped for- Penny Rogers, Lookout Fortin. When the request ward to return the flag to Above: LS Gareth Eley gets help hoisting the City of Victoria flag from City Hall employee Joey Gutierrez, was received, the flag was the mayor he said, “Sorry Lt(N) David Beldeure, Cpl Andrew Nolan, PO1 Dennis Fairfex and PO2 Martin Truchon. packed up and shipped off it’s a little bit brown.” Below: The City of Victoria flag was returned to Mayor Dean Fortin along with a commemorative scroll. to the Middle East, as were The dust from 40 other city flags from Afghanistan, which pene- Gareth Eley, a member of Naval Centennial flag that across Canada following trates every nook and cran- the Canadian Forces, based had been flying from the similar requests from their ny of Camp Nathan Smith, at CFB Esquimalt, and pole on Pandora Street, local CF members. had seeped into the mate- while on deployment serv- replacing it with the slightly The sailor returned home rial. ing with Headquarters as off-colour, well-travelled in May, but it took several Mayor Fortin read aloud Accommodations NCO for City of Victoria one. weeks until his suitcase con- the accompanying certifi- the Kandahar Provincial As LS Eley gazed up at taining the flag found its cate. It said: In recognition Reconstruction Team, the flag, he said, “Every time way home. Also accompa- of the support provided by was flown for the dura- I saw it, it reminded me of nying the flag was a certifi- the City of Victoria to the tion of Rotation 8 at Camp home; that’s what it did. cate signed by Lieutenant- men and women serving in Nathan Smith, Kandahar, It reminded me why I was Colonel Joe Pospolita, Afghanistan, and to their Afghanistan. over there. I want the peo- Deputy Commanding families, this scroll certifies Moments later, the CF ple over there to have the Officer of the Kandahar that the flag of the City of members stepped out the same things we have here. I Provincial Reconstruction Victoria, British Columbia, side door of City Hall and really do, because this place Team at Camp Nathan provided to Leading Seaman removed the Canadian is beautiful. 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Third Fleet Public Affairs Dr. Paul Henn • Dr. Adrian Luckhurst • Dr. David Li A new exercise developed for Rim 250-386-3044 of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2010 was not played out on land, sea or in the air, but rather inside the Ford Island Conference Center on Ford Island at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Dubbed the Sea Spirit, the planning exercise was a multinational force for crisis response/peace operation in one New and Pre-owned phase. Motorcycles & ATVs Sea Spirit took place in a room big enough to lie out a strategic floor Sales & Service map, where participants from coali- tion nations could actively walk on in Langford across from Steve Drane the scenario to conceptualize effec- 250-475-8885 • www.savagecycles.ca tive actions in the event of a crisis. Operational planning traditionally U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Stephen Hickok uses Power Point presentations, which Capt Paul Krug, U.S. 3rd Fleet director of Maritime Assessment is a slow, detached method of visual- Group, second from left, gives Gen Walt Natynczyk, Canadian Chief izing and developing mission analysis, of the Defence Staff, a tour of the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Sea courses of action and war gaming. Spirit Battle Lab at Ford Island. However, Sea Spirit brings the plan to life. It’s a hands-on approach with tan- crisis, what are the implications if a of action,” Capt Krug said. Course gible moving parts designed to maxi- military positions its ship 300 miles of actions are based on actual U.N. mize the operational art of planning. off the coast of a nation as opposed to Security Council mandates and mili- “This type of planning model bridges 25 miles?” tary strategic and component opera- language barriers among participat- During the tactical phase of tional orders and terminology based ing members and encourages interac- RIMPAC, the fictional scenarios on the NATO standard in addition to tion between players,” said U.S. Navy emphasize the maritime component C2 command and control structure. Reserve Captain Paul Krug, U.S. 3rd level with a one-phase approach, with For RIMPAC 2010, Sea Spirit utilized Fleet N51 who developed the Sea representatives from the air and land Australia’s Joint Military Appreciation Spirit Planning Exercise with the assis- components also present. Process. For future Sea Spirit exercises, tance of 3rd Fleet N7. “An interna- Since it is not a real-world situation, RIMPAC will use another coalition’s tional officer might not speak English Sea Spirit allowed for a discussion of planning process. Given the consen- to communicate his objectives for the broader issues, ideas and tactics with- sus of positive feedback from the planning operation, yet he can move out real-world politics playing into the Sea Spirit participants Capt Krug said the game pieces and visually have an equation. there is a viable possibility the Sea understanding of the strategic implica- “The war gaming is invaluable and Spirit Planning Exercise will be a part tions. For instance, in the event of a forces planners to generate a course of RIMPAC 2012. Exercise “Free play” is no minor game NNavalaval CCentennialentennial LCdr Nathalie Garcia to commence the tactical nation, planning and train- Green in the event that MARPAC PAO phase of the exercise from ing, and reworking the military action is required. July 25 to July 30. plan, all boil down to how Though the foe and sce- GGiftwareiftware Canadian sailors, soldiers, Sometimes referred to well the ships, airplanes nario are fictitious, both airmen and women from as “free play”, the moni- and men and women need to be realistic and across the country have been ker does nothing to con- on the ground work as complex enough to chal- training in the Hawaiian vey the seriousness of the a team,” says Admiral lenge every nation and each Operating Areas since June phase in which dozens of Ron Lloyd, Commander unit in the free play.