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donoreo
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HMCS Toronto receives US Navy Meritorious Unit Award

HMCS Toronto has received the US Navy Meritorious Unit Award for services in Combined Task Force 150 during 2013 ( »combinedmaritimeforces.c ··· ecurity/ )

This is only the 5th time in 45 years that this award has been given to a non-US Navy unit.

»www.navy.mil/submit/disp ··· id=85661

Details of award: »www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CF ··· 8-59.xml

Thane_Bitter
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Ottawa Citizen story: »ottawacitizen.com/news/n ··· -toronto

Its impressive when you consider that at any given day of the week the US Navy has many more ships in active service throughout the world: »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li ··· tes_Navy
HELLFIRE
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...stories like this about the Canadian Forces just warms the cackles of my heart.

Shouts out to the crew of the HMCS Toronto, and to all our men and women in uniform! From One Proud Canadian.

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PX Eliezer1
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Congratulations to the HMCS Toronto and crew.

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As well:

HMCS Toronto members fight fire while on shore leave in Turkey.

»www.torontosun.com/2014/ ··· n-turkey

donoreo
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donoreo

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That makes sense. All Navy personnel who may server aboard ships train at damage control and fire school. That was a dirty mess doing it in the summer. Except for the damage control part where they pump water from the bay into the ship mock ups. That was just cold.