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…
Sports: Fall Schedules for Men’s Rugby, Women’s Soccer, and Men’s Soccer
The following is courtesy of Peter Reimer, RMC’s Sports Information and Promotion Coordinator / Ce qui suit est une gracieuseté de Peter Reimer, Coordonnateur de l’information et de la promotion des sports du CMR Please see the below schedule for all Paladins men’s rugby, women’s soccer, and men’s soccer home games this fall. Men’s rugby…
Royal Military College Nuclear Research Reactor refueled safely and successfully / Le réacteur de recherche nucléaire du Collège militaire royal est ravitaillé en toute sécurité et avec succès
News Release September 23, 2021 – Kingston, Ont. – National Defence / Canadian Armed Forces Photos by S1 Lisa Sheppard Between August 16 and September 15, 2021, in coordination with Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, a refueling was conducted for the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC)’s Safe LOW-POwer Kritical Experiment (SLOWPOKE) reactor. As part of this…
A170 Tom Rozman: More Leadership Do’s and Don’ts from Corps Level Headquarters
Above: Top l – r and bottom l – r III, I , XVIII Airborne, VII and V Corps A Leadership Perspective on interfacing with Corps Level Headquarters Article by A170 Tom Rozman Over a 22 ½ year Army commissioned officer career (overall Army engagement was 27 ¼ years on the Army rolls and 18…