RUSI-VI
Royal United Services Institute of Vancouver Island
Newsletter Vol 36, no. 3 - Third Quarter 2004

Mark your calendar

8 September Meeting
Speaker:	Brigadier General (Ret) James I. Hanson, CD
Topic:	Some Ways of Looking at the World
Place:	The Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's) Officers' Mess, Room 314, Bay Street Armoury, 715 Bay Street, Victoria, BC. (South entrance on Field Street)
Time:	1130 for 1200 hrs Luncheon
Cost:	$15 (pay at the door)
Biographical Sketch:
A native of Ottawa, Jim Hanson attended Ottawa schools and Carleton University. He first joined the Militia before transferring to the Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers in the Regular Army in 1962. He commanded maintenance platoons in Germany, a company in Calgary and a service battalion in Germany. Upon promotion to colonel, he became commandant of the CF School of Aerospace and Ordnance Engineering at CFB Borden. He attended the Army Staff College and later was a member of the faculty at the same college. He served in NDHQ three times where he was promoted to BGen and where he retired in 1991. He then took an MA in War Studies at RMC Kingston and taught Military, Defence and Foreign Policy History and the History of Air Warfare at RMC, part time. From 1994 to 2002, he was with the Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies in Toronto, and remains a Senior Research Fellow of the CIIS.

13 October Meeting
Speaker:	Rear Admiral Jean-Yves Forcier, OMM, CD
Topic:	Current Operations
Place:	The Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's) Officers' Mess, Room 314, Bay Street Armoury, 715 Bay Street, Victoria, BC. (South entrance on Field Street)
Time:	1130 for 1200 hrs Luncheon
Cost:	$15 (pay at the door)
Biographical Sketch:
Rear Admiral J-Y Fortier became Commander MARPAC July 15 last year. Upon joining the Navy in 1971, between 1973 and 1981, he served in HMCS SASKATCHEWAN, OTTAWA and PROTECTEUR. In 1982 he was promoted LCdr and was Weapons Officer in HMCS ALGONQUIN. From The CF Command and Staff College, Toronto in June 1988, he was promoted to Cdr and Executive Officer of HMCS PRESERVER. He took command of HMCS ALGONQUIN in July 1989 during the TRUMP refit and trials, and the first six months of operations ending in July 1993 that included Flagship of the Standing Naval Force Atlantic. Promoted Capt (N) in 1993, he attended NDC and then served as Deputy Commander Naval Reserve. Later he was Commander, Fourth Maritime Operations Group in Esquimalt, BC before returning to NDHQ in Sept. 2000 where he remained until last year.

10 November Meeting
Speaker:	Commander William E. Macdonald, OMM, CD
Topic:	NATO HQ during the Kosovo War
Place:	The Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's) Officers' Mess, Room 314, Bay Street Armoury, 715 Bay Street, Victoria, BC. (South entrance on Field Street)
Time:	1130 for 1200 hrs Luncheon
Cost:	$15 (pay at the door)
Biographical Sketch:
Cdr Bill Macdonald was born in St. Boniface, Man. into a military family and home kept moving across Canada and Europe. He graduated from Carleton University in Ottawa. Commissioned a Lt in the RCOC in 1969, he served in army logistics at CFB Esquimalt. After sea logistics training in 1974, he joined HMCS PROTECTEUR and then HMCS SAGUENAY as supply officer. After MARCOM as SSO Sea Logistics, he was promoted to LCdr in 1980 as supply officer HMCS PROTECTEUR. Following Command and Staff College, at NDHQ in 1983, he had integrated logistics support positions including NATO Frigate and Canadian Patrol Frigate programs. Tours at Esquimalt and MARPAC followed. In 1996 he was posted to NATO HQ AFSOUTH in Naples, Italy. He had NATO Joint Logistics operations in Bosnia and helped develop the Multinational Joint Logistics Centre concept for NATO, using lessons learned from Bosnia. He finished as the Chief of Logistics Plans AFSOUTH. Back in Esquimalt in 1999, he became Deputy Chief of Staff Materiel Acquisition and Support Information System, retiring in 2003.