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Vanguard February/March 2023

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16 FEBRUARY/MARCH 2023 www.vanguardcanada.com 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. FOR FUTURE NAVAL WITH FILES FROM TERRI PAVELIC

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