CFB Halifax Trident Navy Newspaper
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
The Canadian Armed Forces Recruiting Centre (CFRC) Halifax detachment hosted special events on March 8 to mark International Women’s Day, with honours and awards, an enrolment ceremony, aptitude testing and interviews, all meant to highlight the opportunities available for women in the CAF. Read more in our next Trident e-edition!
Crowd hears uncomfortable truths at base Black History Month event By Ryan Melanson, Trident Staff Mr. DeRico Symonds made no apologies for the uncomfortable, but necessary, information he was about to share as he took to the podium at Juno Tower. Symonds, a well-known community advocate for racialized and marginalized […]
Greenwood wins more hockey gold at Old Timer’s Regional tournament By Ryan Melanson, Trident staff Another Greenwood hockey team is headed to nationals, after the 14 Wing Bombers squad captured gold at the CAF Atlantic Region Old Timer’s Hockey Championship hosted by 12 Wing Shearwater, downing the CFB Halifax Mariners […]
CPO2 Colley – HMCS Scotian’s trailblazing Cox’n By S1 Bill J. Bagunu, HMCS Scotian As HMCS Scotian marked African Heritage Month in Nova Scotia through February, sailors took the opportunity to celebrate the decorated career of Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class Perry Colley, our unit’s former Coxswain, who retired from […]
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Mariners players past and present team up on the bench By Sara White, The Aurora Two Mariners, past and present, ran the CFB Halifax bench at the recent women’s hockey regionals, acknowledging action on the tournament ice as “pretty much out of our hands” but confident in their team’s ability. […]
On the eve of the last day of African Heritage Month and Black History, MARLANT Defence Visible Minorities Advisory Group (DVMAG) Champion and Base Commander Capt(N) Andy MacKenzie and MARLANT DVMAG co-chair Rene Gannon randomly selected the winners of the 2023 DVMAG Black History Month Quiz. The annual DVMAG Black […]
Sailor First Class Zachary Clarke, a Naval Communicator aboard HMCS Fredericton, smiles at the camera as the ship enters Souda Bay, Greece during Operation Reassurance on February 21. The ship is currently deployed as a member of Standing NATO Maritime Group 2.
The Military to Civilian Transition (MCT) process By CAF Transition Unit NS/NL The Canadian Armed Forces is reinventing the transition process, and this change is coming to Halifax on March 1, 2023! What exactly is this new MCT process? This new transition process is characterized by using a personalized, professional, […]
Students from the Nova Scotia Community College Aircraft Maintenance Engineering program were at 12 Wing Shearwater on February 7 for a visit to 12 Air Maintenance Squadron. The students toured through facilities and learned about the different facets of 12 AMS’ work, including maintenance support to the CH-148 Cyclone helicopter […]
