Meet G3841 Commodore Josée Kurtz, New Commandant of RMC / Rencontrez le commodore Josée Kurtz G3841, nouveau commandant du CMR
Incoming RMC Commandant G3841 Commodore Josée Kurtz recently sat down with eVeritas Editor 25366 Anna-Michelle Shewfelt to talk all things navy, leadership, and Kingston. Read on for more! Le nouveau commandant du CMR, G3841 le commodore Josée Kurtz, a récemment rencontré 25366 Anna-Michelle Shewfelt, rédactrice en chef d’eVeritas, pour parler de tout ce qui concerne…
2021 Reunion Weekend Arch Ceremony Video / Vidéo de la cérémonie de l’Arche de la fin de semaine des ancien(ne)s 2021
Video courtesy of RMC Public Affairs / Vidéo gracieuseté des Affaires publiques du CMR
A Message from the Old Brigade to the Class of 2025 / Un message de la Vieille Brigade à la promotion 2025
Future CAF leaders of the Class of 2025, Welcome to full membership in the Cadet Wing of the Royal Military College, and to our alumni family which dates back to 1876. On behalf of the Old Brigade – all those who entered one of Canada’s military colleges fifty or more years ago – congratulations on…
Alumni Making the News / Des anciens font l’actualité
(Friday, September 17, 2021) RMC Professor Richard J. Bathurst of the Civil Engineering Department and his co-authors have won the prestigious 2021 ASCE Geo-Institute Thomas A. Middlebrooks Award for the following paper published in the ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering in the USA: Bathurst, R.J., Allen, T.M., Lin, P. and Bozorgzadeh, N. 2019.…
Military Colleges Mark National Day for Truth and Reconciliation / Les collèges militaires observent la Journée nationale de la vérité et de la réconciliation
Photos by S1 Lisa Anne Sheppard, RMC Public Affairs / Affaires publiques du CMR (Thursday, September 30, 2021) Today, Canada marked the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. In order to move towards the future, we must first acknowledge the past. For over 150 years, First Nation, Inuit, and Métis children were removed from…
Introduction to Understanding & Recovering from PTSD: A Series
Editor’s Note: The following introductions serve to begin an ongoing series of articles by 10970 Karmin McKay on the subject of post-traumatic stress disorder. The first two articles are available in today’s eVeritas and the remainder will follow over the next month. INTRODUCTION by 5276 JR Digger MacDougall, CD, MEd, MPsych, CHRP President (For Life)…
10970 Karmin McKay: Chasing the Adrenaline Rush (PTSD Series Part 1)
Editor’s Note: This is Part One in an on-going series on dealing with PTSD. For Part Two please see here. For the Introduction to the series please see here. High risk is high adrenaline. Jason Statham High adrenaline is fun when you are not caught or hurt. Karmin McKay The higher your adrenaline rush reaches,…
10970 Karmin McKay: Managing relationships while chasing your adrenaline rush (PTSD Series Part 2)
Editor’s Note: This is Part Two in an on-going series on dealing with PTSD. For Part One please see here. For the Introduction to the series please see here. Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational. Hugh Mackay Assumptions are the termites of relationships. Henry Winkler Truth…
The Class of ’79 Remembers: The [Not So] Wild Ones
With thanks to the Class of ’79, 12352 Chris Willmes and 12149 Pete Avis After graduation, and after a lazy, hazy summer of French language training at RMC, we newly-minted naval officers of the MARS persuasion were dispatched to the Naval Officer Training Centre, VENTURE, at CFB Esquimalt. There we began Phase IV of MARS…
From 12570 Mike Kennedy: RMC – Forty Years On (Part 4)
Above: Photo of #290 John Edwards Leckie taken sometime during his service with the 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish), 1914 – 1918. RMC – Forty Years On By 290 J.E. Leckie Originally written in 1933 Transcribed by 12570 Mike Kennedy Part IV There were always the sports in the autumn. As a recruit I had to rub…
New Ex-Cadet Book: “Scars and Black Armor” by 28568 Liam Chambers
28568 Liam Chambers received his English degree from RMC in 2020 and is a former eVeritas correspondent. He is a Royal Canadian Air Force Officer based out of Shearwater, Nova Scotia. You can find him trail running, reading, or on the mats practicing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Father to an energetic two-year-old, Liam is a fitness…
We Get Emails: My ROTP Instruction Letter from August 23, 1965 & RMC Chemical and Nuclear Engineering from 1970
The following is from 8120 Bill Gard. Some images of my ROTP Instruction letter from 1965. I remember we were sworn in on 3 Sep in the cadet gun room at RRMC. I thought you might like to see how things were in August 1965. Bill G. #8120 (Click on images for better viewing)Â The…