Centennial year for Canada’s Navy celebrated

2010 is the centennial year for Canada’s Navy, and to mark the occasion, the minister of National Defence has announced changes to the Naval uniform.

The new badge will be called a sea service insignia, described as a visible and formal recognition for those who have spent a long time out at sea, and the Navy will award it to sailors, as well as soldiers and airmen who sale on HMC ships.

Making a return is “The Executive Curl”. Formerly a part of an officer’s uniform, this is a loop on a braid of a naval officer’s rank insignia, which may appear on the top stripe of a tunic sleeve or epaulette.

The curl was adopted by the Royal Canadian Navy when it was formed in 1910, but was lost in 1968, when the National Defence Act unified the three services.

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