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Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Canada's top soldier wants navy on even keel

"I've got to deliver," was the message that Gen. Walter Natynczyk took halfway around the world with him to his first meeting with a front-line operational unit since becoming Canada's new chief of defence staff six days ago.

"I've got to lay keels for ships. I've got to fill up the navy divisions aboard ships. I have to make sure they have the training that they require," Gen. Natynczyk said yesterday during an interview on board HMCS Iroquois.

The vessel, a 36-year-old destroyer, has been leading a coalition task force that includes two other Canadian warships. They have been hunting for pirates along the Somali coast and for smugglers in the Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea whose cargoes of drugs and alcohol help bankroll al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

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