first stoker posting

[runormal]

I would like to thank everyone for their responses. He has chosen to request Halifax and is hoping to get on ship recently out of refit.

WRT to boilers, he was refering to the boilers on the frigrates.

This information has also reinfornced my decision to request Halifax whenever my CT goes through ;D. Though I had never really considered cost of living in the terms of taxes/grocercies only on the basis of real estate so I appreciate the inisight.

Thanks again.

 

[Pat in Halifax]

Okay but make sure he knows that the 'boiler' on the frigates are little more than glorified hot water heaters. He will not be using any entropy extrapolating equations nor exercising all that thermodynamics he may have learned...not on the steam generators anyway.

 

[Pusser]

As someone who has been posted to both coasts, I have found that each has its good points and bad, as everywhere else. Just as an anecdote though, the East Coast (specifically Halifax), was the only place I was ever called a baby killer. Now to be fair, I am pretty sure it was University students who could have been from anywhere.  :2c:

Halifax has a love/hate relationship with the Navy.  My wife grew up with the advice of "don't date a puker," but she got over it.  For the most part, Halifax realizes that without the Navy, their economy would be considerably less than it is.  I've never been treated disrespectfully in Halifax because I was in the Navy.  I didn't always get the girls, but I was usually fairly confident that it wasn't because of my occupation.  In Victoria, however, I once spent the evening chatting up a girl and were getting along great until she found out I was in the Navy.  She literally screamed, walked away and refused to speak to me any further.

 

[Pat in Halifax]

For what it is worth, I was called a "baby killer" once in 33 years...at the airport in Victoria BC. (And that was about 5-6 years ago)
I too married a local girl from Ketch Harbour just outside of Halifax...whose father was a Signalman in he Navy and whose mother was a PS employee with the Halifax MPs for 25 years, and whose stepfather was a Bos'n and whose grandfather was a Steward during WWII and... Halifax is not only a VERY "Navy tolerant" city but I think actually embraces that.

Pat

 

[cupper]

A Captain (Army) friend of mine was on a parade at the NS Legislature many years ago (back in the 90's?) and had the same comment hurled at him.

But the best response to that situation I've seen was at a Remembrance Day parade several years ago when I happened to be home for a visit. I was at the parade at the Dartmouth Cenotaph at Sullivans pond watching my old unit parade. Someone in the crowd made the same comment about them being a bunch of baby killers. An elderly veteran took the young man to task by literally giving him a dope slap on the back of the head, and told him to have more respect for people who ensure he has the freedom to make stupid comments like that.