This document summarizes the achievements and activities of the crew of the HMCS Ottawa over their recent deployment. It lists the operations and port visits they participated in, awards and qualifications earned by crew members, and interesting statistics about the ship's operations over the past 15 weeks such as fuel and water used, food served, and distance traveled. Upcoming events for the crew and their families are also announced.

1. HMCS Ottawa
17 Nov 19
Sunday Session
Cdr Alex Barlow
Commanding Officer
HMCS Ottawa

2. Achievements to Date
• 61 days Op PROJECTION –Special Service Medal
(SSM) – Expeditionary medals should be delivered
soon
• 46 Days Op NEON
• Port Visits in:
– Dutch Harbor (USA)
– Maizuru (Japan)
– Pyeongtaek/Incheon (ROK)
– Laem Chabang (Thailand)
– Busan (ROK)
– Sasebo (Japan)
– Yokosuka (Japan)
– Busan (ROK)
– Kure (Japan)

3. • Ottawa completed support
to UNSCR 2397
• Ottawa has been a key
contributor to the
recognized maritime
pictures in the South China
Sea.
• 14 VOIs in total, 8
conducting StS transfers,
many more legitimate
transfers observed
Op NEON

4. From Master Corporal to Sergeant Jacklin

5. From Able to Leading Seaman Law

6. LS Horvath achieves his Machinery Watchkeeping Certification

7. LS Bunn achieves his Machinery Watchkeeping Certification

8. Sea Service Insignia

9. Where We’ve Been and Life at Sea

10. Op NEON finale
Operating with RCAF
Operating with RCAF on Op NEON

11. Busan (ROK) – Look Familiar?

12. NESOPs in the sun

13. Sundaes on Sunday (LogO Special)

14. A trip to the bank

15. A clean ship is a happy ship

16. Post Firing Maintenance

17. Two exhausted divers

18. Kure Japan Arrival

19. CPO1 Lowther’s departure

20. SWOAD Team

21. Remembrance Day @ Sea

22. Last Post

23. Act of Remembrance

24. Committal of Ashes

25. CIWS

26. Man Overboard Drill

27. Where’s Oscar?

28. Safely Onboard

29. Ready to RAS

30. Ever wonder how the first line gets across?

31. Heavy Jackstay – 2 Point RAS

32. Cargo Being Passed

33. Breaking Away

34. Trick or Treat!

35. Ottawa’s own Gilligan’s Island

36. When you shop for Halloween costumes in Japan

37. ?

38. 21 Ship PHOTOEX

39. PHOTOEX

40. Breaking Away

41. Questions ?
Starburst

42. ANNUALEX PhotoEx from ship level

43. Allies in Formation

44. Who we have been hunting

45. Photo from JMSDF helicopter

47. Upcoming Home Events
• Dec 8 - Children’s Christmas Party
• Dec 15 – Final Sunday Session
– 10 – 11 am Banner Making
– 10:30 am childminding begins (until noon)
– 11 am Commanding Officer’s Call
– 12:15 – 12:45 pm Lunch
– 12:45 pm childminding begins again
– 1 – 3 pm Return and Reunion Workshop

48. Fun Facts about the Sail
• Ottawa has burned over 3.1 million liters of fuel
– That is enough to fill up your car 51,667 times
• Ottawa has used approximately 1,800 Gigabytes of text messages, pictures, phone calls and
websites over IS2S
– That would be enough to fill 2,600 CD-ROMs
• Ottawa has sailed 37 609km
– That’s enough to do to drive to Newfoundland and back 4 times!
• Although we cannot turn water into wine, we have turned 1.7 million litres of seawater into
drinking water using our reverse osmosis plants
– You would have to fill your bathtub 53 times each day since we left to have produced as much
• 275 liters of Ice Cream have been served exclusively on Sunday
• 210 giant sheet pan pizzas have been consumed exclusively on Saturday
• Over 56,000 Eggs have been consumed
– With the average chicken laying 5 eggs a week, it would have taken 750 chickens to produce
this many eggs for Ottawa in the 15 Weeks we have been gone

50. THE NEXT SUNDAY SESSION
WILL BE:
15 DEC 19
SEE YOU THERE!