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8 TRIDENT, NOVEMBER 14, 2005 Submarine medicine to be topic of conference By Virginia Beaton Trident staff From November 14 to 25, the Submarine Training Division at CFB Halifax will host an international course in submarine medicine. Commander (Cdr) Dr. David Wilcox, the Formation Surgeon, has organized the course. According to him, “It will be the first submarine medicine course in Canada and at present it is the only English speaking diesel submarine medicine course in NATO.” The Royal Navy, the United States and France all have nuclear medicine courses for their nuclear submarine fleets, but these courses focus heavily on the nuclear and radiation medicine portion, according to Cdr Dr. Wilcox. The diesel electric submarine course designed and directed by Cdr Dr. Wilcox is a pilot course designed to teach medical officers and physicians’ assistants (PAs) about the diesel submarine environment. Maximum enrollment for the course is 20, stated Cdr Dr. Wilcox. Ten Canadians have enrolled, including two PAs from each coast and two doctors from each coast. Two Turkish, one Dutch, and two Australian participants are also expected to attend. There are also Canadians who will be auditing the course. According to Cdr Dr. Wilcox, the introduction of the Victoria class submarines meant that it was necessary to improve the training for the medical officers and physicians’ assistants who would be associated with the new submarines. Cdr Dr. Wilcox took over as submarine medical consultant two years ago and prepared a submarine medical course that was ready to run, but the crisis onboard HMCS CHICOUTIMI in October 2004 occurred six months before that course was scheduled to take place. Cdr Dr. Wilcox was medical advisor to the Board of Inquiry, which took four months. To develop the course content, over the past two years Cdr Dr. Wilcox has attended many international conferences, including four escape and rescue conferences, as well as the Submarine Atmospheric Monitoring and Air Purification Conference. He has also taken courses including the Nuclear Emergency Response Management Course. Through extensive study, Cdr Dr. Wilcox devised the two-week course that he is about to conduct. According to Cdr Dr. Wilcox, since the first submarine was built, there have been more than 300 submarine accidents and more than 10,000 submariners died in these accidents. Following the course introduction, the first class concerns the history of submarine warfare and accidents. According to Cdr Dr. Wilcox. “This will put it into perspective and describe some of the sentinel accidents that led to changes in the way we do things.” Major subject areas include submariners’fitness to serve, escape and rescue, atmospheric monitoring and air purification, medical problems specific to submariners, accident investigation, occupational health issues, the SubSafe program, and other topics. In addition to classroom instruction, the students will get hands-on knowledge through practice of actions such as getting into life rafts “so they can experience how difficult that is,” observed Cdr Dr. Wilcox. There will also be a tour of a submarine, during which the students will practice using the analox monitors and other equipment, and a tour of the Canadian Forces Naval Operations School Submarine Trainer. Finally, on Thursday November 24, there will be a major exercise titled Exercise Phoenix. “We are simulating that there is a submarine down and on the ready duty ship we bring out the portable hyperbaric chamber. We put on all of our first reaction stores, we get our teams available and then we simulate that the crew has popped to the surface and they are being brought over to us.” This exercise will provide valuable experience for the course participants, as it will include everything from triaging the patients to using the hyperbaric chamber and simulation of calling in helicopters, according to Cdr Dr. Wilcox. Among the other lecturers during the course will be LCdr Peter Woodson, United States Navy, and Major Yvonne Severs of Canadian Forces Environmental Medicine Establishment (CFEME). The intention is to run this course each year, according to Cdr Dr. Wilcox, adding that it is a challenge to cover so much technically complex material in this amount of time. 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TRIDENT, NOVEMBER 14, 2005 9 By Virginia Beaton Trident staff Yves Côté, the new Ombudsman for the Department of National Defence and Canadian Forces (DND/CF), visited Maritime Forces Atlantic from Monday October 31 to Thursday November 3, 2005. During his trip, Côté met with Rear Admiral Dan McNeil Commander Joint Task Force Atlantic and Maritime Forces Atlantic, and also met with other commanding officers. Côté toured many MARLANT entities, ranging from ships to shore establishments. Among those were HMC Ships VILLE DE QUEBEC, CORNER BROOK and KINGSTON, FMF Cape Scott, Canadian Forces Naval Operations School, the Fleet Diving Unit (Atlantic), and many others. On Wednesday November 2, Côté toured the Canadian Forces Naval Engineering School (CFNES), including the Damage Control Division, S37, several of the shops and classrooms, and the Pullen Building. CFNES commanding officer Commander (Cdr) Robert Hovey explained the tasks undertaken at CFNES, ranging from operational training at Damage Control, to career training at S37. With the evolution of Navy ships, he noted, “They are getting much more complex in the technology.” A tour of the facility followed the briefing. In each classroom, Cdr Hovey introduced Côté, who then spoke to the students. To a group of Naval Weapons Technicians, Côté talked about his job as DND/CF Ombudsman. “I report only to the Minister of National Defence,” he stressed. Côté informed them that callers to the Ombudsman’s office are assured confidentiality in their complaints or queries. However, they are required to exhaust all the usual procedures or channels of inquiry before going to the Ombudsman. “We are the office of last resort, “ he stressed. In addition to acting on individual cases, the Ombudsman and his staff also produce studies on subjects such as post traumatic stress disorder. Following his tour of CFNES, Côté took time to speak to Trident. Since his appointment as Ombudsman in July 2005 and officially taking office on August 2, Côté noted that in September he took the first of several planned trips across the country to learn more about military establishments, and to meet personnel. He has already been to Wainwright, Edmonton and Cold Lake in Alberta, and in October, he visited CFB Valcartier and St-Jean. In the near future, Côté stated, he hopes to visit an operational theatre such as Afghanistan. The visits serve two purposes, Côté observed. “I was in the military from 1977 to 1981 so in many respects I lost my connection with the military, so it’s a way for me to get to understand more, and be more informed about the challenges our people are facing with all the transformations that are going on and the operational tempo that is going up.” It was important for him to meet members of the junior ranks, Côté stressed. “The Ombudsman is there to serve those who are powerless. You have to be able to connect with them, to understand them and to instill confidence in them that we can help them, in the right circumstances, and that they should contact us.” The visits to bases and wings allowed him to reiterate the message that the Ombudsman’s office is completely separate from DND/CF. “We are outside the chain of command, we are independent.” The office can also be a source of information and advice for the families of CF members, according to Côté. “Our people are very experienced, especially the intake officers that you reach by telephone.” New DND/CF Ombudsman visits JTFA Yves Côté spoke to students at CFNES. Callers to the office may be referred to other mechanisms to deal with the problem, the exception to that being what Côté described as “compelling circumstances,” which could have to do with urgent and difficult issues, often related to family or childcare. “Another thing to keep in mind is that we are objective and impartial. When we have a case brought to our attention, we investigate and find our own facts.” Côté’s first report was due to be released on November 8, 2005. It concerned a CF member who retired in 1961, applied for a reduced annuity, and was told he would only LT(N) DENIS PELLICHERO receive a return of contributions. “This guy has never given up, for more than 40 years. He kept coming back.” When Bill Graham became Minister of National Defence, Graham gave the file to the Ombudsman’s office and the report was released. In early 2006, the Ombudsman’s office will release a report on recruiting. “We had close to 400 complaints that were filed with us over the last couple of years and they were coming from all kinds of directions.” Accordingly, the office decided to study the situation and the resulting report, with findings and recommendations, will soon come out. The DND/CF Ombudsman’s office has approximately 50 positions. There are regional investigators, mostly concentrated in western Canada, “but now we are looking at whether we have the right balance.” For Valcartier and for the CF bases and wings in the Atlantic provinces, the office is examining “whether we should have a more real regional presence to offer better services to the people we are here to serve. Sometime in the new year, we will be making a decision about that.” For further information on the office of the DND/CF Ombudsman, visit www.ombudsman.forces.gc.ca To make a query, telephone 1-888- 8BUDMAN (1-888-828-3626). Door Prizes, Party Favours, DJ & Dancing & Transportation Home Provided (within 25 km of the Fleet Club) Note: No tickets will be held, there is no waiting list and no refunds. 721-8352 www.fleetclubatlantic.ca 31 December 2005 at 1900 hrs Dinner served until 2100 hrs Tickets Members: $40 .00 /person (On sale 1st November – 16 December.) Non-Member: $50 .00 /person (On sale 15 November – 16 December.) 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