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INTERVIEW
Through Innovative Solutions Canada, the Royal
Canadian Navy's navigation school, Naval Training
Development Centre (Pacific), has partnered with
developers from Chaac Technologies to test the
viability of having virtual reality in the classroom.
Photo: DND
INTERVIEW WITH
CAPT(N) MATTHEW
COATES, COMMANDER,
NAVAL PERSONNEL
AND TRAINING GROUP
(NPTG), ROYAL
CANADIAN NAVY
SHARED INSIGHT
A
decade ago, the Commander
of the Royal Canadian Navy
(RCN) promulgated the
Commander's Guidance and
Direction to the Royal Cana-
dian Navy – Executive Plan (2013 – 2017).
The document gave voice to a vision that,
amongst other things, would launch a se-
ries of changes to restructure the navy at
the institutional level.
For decades, with minor exceptions, the
naval formations on the two coasts largely
mirrored each other with officers and sail-
ors in MARPAC and MARLANT separate-
ly and concurrently performing many of
the same force generation functions.
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