Panel: Smaller NATO Navies Struggle with Recruitment, Awareness

HMCS Ottawa (FFH-341). US Navy Photo

Three senior NATO navy officers said their countrymen have cases of “maritime blindness” and don’t understand how their navies operate.

Speaking at an international navies session at the Surface Navy Association symposium in Arlington, Va., Capt. William Quinn, naval attache at the Canadian Embassy, said despite his nation’s extensive coastlines on the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic oceans, “I run into many Canadians that don’t know we have a navy.”

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https://news.usni.org/2022/01/11/panel-smaller-nato-navies-struggle-with-recruitment-awareness

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