Catching Up With the News

Kingston Branch Seeks a Volunteer To Project Manage an Initiative to Preserve the RMC Cadet Records Background When an officer/naval cadet first enters RMC, a file is opened to record the individual’s performance until they graduate or leave the College prematurely. Up until sometime in the 1990s, all these cadet records were printed on acid…

A Word from the President Let me start by saying that I hope everyone had a great Canada Day long weekend. I have had some feedback on my President’s Message in the recent issue of Veritas. Specifically, it appears that my focussing uniquely on the RMC Saint-Jean and RMCC relationship could have been perceived as…

Local student gets scholarship to military college Brigadier General Omer Lavoie, Senior Fellow of New Westminster College Treble Victor military vets form business network…/ Captains of industry Élections en Iran – Vers la fin de l’influence de Téhéran au Moyen-Orient Pierre Pahlavi – Professeur au Département des études de la défense du Collège des Forces…

Speaking Notes for                      Notes d’allocution de Vice-Admiral Bruce Donaldson Vice Chief of the Defence Staff Vice-chef d’état-major de la Défense Royal Military College of Canada Graduation Parade Kingston, ON 17 May 2013 Brigadier-General Tremblay, Faculty and Staff of the Royal Military College, Members of the RMC Foundation, the RMC Clubs of Canada and the Old…

Prizes & Awards A long time tradition of the year-end commissioning parade is the presentation of many major awards & prizes. This year was no exception. As we went to press, we do not have the full list of 2013 recipients.We are able to capture a few photos of some of the winners. If we…

Caption L-R: 15592 Pat Heffernan, Joel Sokolsky, 12342 Allen Stewart, 25701 OCDT Brandon Robert Pinkney, 14899 Col Stephen Saulnier, 9802 John Lesperance. The MGen John Arthur Stewart Trophy is presented to the top military engineer (MOC 24 and 46) in his / her graduating year as selected by the Prizes and Awards Committee and approved…

Submarines ready to enter Royal Canadian Navy fleet Article A look inside: the Kootenay damage control training facility Article Planned pay cut for Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan under review Article Princess of Wales’ Own Regiment’s 150th year honoured by Canada Post Article Navy deserves support Article CDS announces Canadian Armed Forces senior appointments and retirement…

Canadian warship crew in Indian Ocean seizes 500 kg of heroin Very quickly on we ascertained they were not being truthful about their mission, their voyage, so we continued on with a full search of the vessel and discovered the drugs.’ 21285 Cmdr. David Patchell  Source Words and War: Toni Morrison at West Point By…

Two former RMCC Commandants meet on the high seas  A/SLt 24498 Noelani Shore (RMC 2009) Esquimalt, B.C. – There were some special visitors onboard RENARD 58, one of eight ORCA Class Patrol Craft Training Vessels, on Wednesday, March 13, 2013. 12192 General Tom Lawson, Chief of the Defence Staff, along with 15185 Rear-Admiral Bill Truelove,…

Nominate a Royal Roads Ex-Cadet for the Alumni Leadership Award Do you know an inspiring leader who is a graduate of one of the military colleges at Royal Roads that pre-dated the creation of Royal Roads University in 1995? Consider nominating him or her for the Royal Roads University Alumni Leadership Award. The Alumni Leadership…

PHOTO CAPTION: CMA Case Competition winners from left to right: runner-up William Bellamy, first place winner Sangjae ( Eric) Choi and runner-up Shawn Goodfallow Congratulations to the 2013 CMA Case Competition Winners TORONTO – February 26, 2013 – Royal Military College of Canada  students 25742 Sangjae (Eric) Choi, M1019 William Bellamy and M0991 Shawn Goodfallow…

Chief of the Defence Staff Statement on the sentencing of Sub-Lieutenant Delisle Source 16080 Douglas E. Delaney: The chalkboard battlefield Source Canada-U.S. Fulbright Foundation newsletter which describes a talk at RMCC on 21 January 2013 – “Une Histoire peu connue de la discrimination en Nouvelle-Angleterre: Les Attaques du Ku Klux Klan sur les Franco-Américains lors…