CFB Halifax Trident Navy Newspaper
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
The Northern Lights pass overhead as HMCS Charlottetown transits to Iceland, across the North Sea, during Exercise Steadfast Defender on March 3. The ship returned to Halifax on March 13 and is now preparing for a lengthy NATO deployment beginning this summer.
NATO Naval Chiefs focus on warfighting readiness By NATO Allied Maritime Command NATO’s Allied Maritime Command (MARCOM) hosted Allied nations’ fleet commanders, operational directors, and other senior leaders for the Maritime Operational Commanders’ Conference (MOCC) 2024 at its headquarters in Northwood, England, April 16-18. ‘Faced with war on the European […]
HMCS Queen Charlotte sailor awarded Rhodes Scholarship for Canada By A/Slt Scott Ferris, HMCS Queen Charlotte Anyone who has served in the Royal Canadian Navy, in the Regular or Reserve Force, will tell you that devotion to duty must be a strong character trait if you are to succeed. Those […]
By CFB Halifax Public Affairs Each year, on the first Sunday of May, people across the country gather to commemorate the Battle of the Atlantic (BOA); the longest continuous battle during the Second World War. Together, we remember the bravery and the sacrifices of the those who fought in the […]
Living life to the “Max” By Peter Mallet, The Lookout His Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) Max Bernays, the first Arctic and Offshore Patrol Vessel (AOPV) to call the West Coast ‘home’, is on a historic journey. The ship’s arrival in Esquimalt mid-April will mark the first commissioning of a Royal […]
Teal Up for Military Kids By CFB Halifax Public Affairs April is the Month of the Military Child. Throughout April, the Halifax & Region Military Family Resource Centre (H&R MFRC) and other MFRCs across the country are running a campaign called Teal Up for Military Kids to celebrate and thank […]
Second-Year cadets from Royal Military College (RMC) visited HMC Dockyard Halifax recently for a familiarization tour of Royal Canadian Navy ships and CFB Halifax. They were greeted by a familiar face, Charlie, RAdm Kurtz’s dog, who was a resident at RMC campus, during Kurtz’s time as the Commandant.
Captain (Navy) Colin Matthews, Commander of Combined Task Force 150, met with Rear-Admiral Sofiayan and Rear-Admiral Akmal of the Tentara Nasional Indonesia Angkatan Laut (TNI-AL) in Jakarta, Indonesia on March 28. Together they discussed the shared goals of the Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) and TNI-AL in countering illegal smuggling of […]
‘It’s hard to miss home when you have home with you’ Siblings deploy together to Operation Horizon with HMCS Montréal By Nathan Stone, Trident Staff A pair of sibling sailors are deployed together aboard His Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) Montréal as it sails from Halifax to the Indo-Pacific in the […]
Just ahead of hosting 12 Wing Shearwater’s Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) 100th anniversary Gala on the hangar floor on April 11, members of 423 Maritime Helicopter Squadron held a promotion ceremony to recognize the next step in several RCAF careers. The promotions were carried out by 423 Commanding Officer […]
