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We could actually analyze the noises of the submarines, and we could not only tell his direction

and where he was going, but how fast he was going. We could tell whether it was a whiskey or a

fox trot or a Romeo. I think you saw that in Hunt for Red October.

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Colonel Terry Chester spent a good portion of his Royal Canadian Air Force career hunting for

Soviet submarines in both the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. He was instrumental in the

design criteria for subhunting capabilities when Canada procured the then-new Aurora for

anti-submarine hunting in the early 1980s. Terry has some great

stories to tell regarding sub-hunting tactics as well as Canadian participation in NATO exercises.

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really appreciated. Now back to today's episode where we start with Terry telling us about his

early career. I joined the RCAF in 1964, right out of high school actually, I decided, I went down to a recruiting

center and they told me that they would pay my way through university. And so I said, well,

I'll take that. So I signed up. I graduated from university under the regular officer training plan in 68 and was

posted to Somerside, Prince Edward Island, to fly on the Argus Airbus aircraft.

The Argus was a four-engine torpedo-carrying anti-submarine aircraft, a derivative of the

Bristol Britannia, actually. And Canada took that Bristol Britannia, made it into a couple of airplanes. One was a Yukon, which we put

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