For this episode I thought we would continue on the wonderful momentum of our last episode where we featured Capt. Stephen Kane, the only Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot currently flying a 5th Generation fighter jet -- and that is the mighty United States Air Force F-22 Raptor!

That chat was a wonderful insight into flying and fighting the F-22 Raptor, so if you haven't heard it, you're definitely missing out!

For this episode, I thought we would continue the theme of employing military platforms, so the topic of this episode is fighting the Halifax Class warship, which is a surface combatant frigate that is operated by the Royal Canadian Navy.

My guest is Commander Sam Patchell, the Commanding Officer of His Majesty's Canadian Ship Ottawa (FFH 341). We visited with Commander Patchell in his Captains quarters on HMCS Ottawa, and we also chat with him on the bridge of the ship. We also had the very rare opportunity to visit the Operations Room of the warship -- an area that is often restricted to military personnel only!

Commander Patchell was kind to share his motivation to serve, and he does a wonderful job explaining the weapons capabilities of the Halifax class frigates, and how the Navy would fight the ship in combat.

It's a fascinating and informative discussion which I really hope you will enjoy.

If you want to see our discussion and the ship, please check out our YouTube channel which is the same name as this podcast: Go Bold with Joetey Attariwala, and look for Go Bold Season 2 Episode 1. I think you'll really enjoy it, and I hope you will like and subscribe to the channel which has a lot of great videos, so please subscribe so you don't miss any of our great guests and topics!

My thanks to Commander Patchell, and to the sailors of HMCS Ottawa for making our visit a great one!

Go Bold!