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CFB Shearwater Military Relocation
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The Federal Government Integrated Relocation Program is a unique program that provides government entities which include the Government of Canada, the Canadian Forces and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police with increased flexibility and assistance to relocate Members/Employees to new work locations.
The IRP aims to make relocation easy and efficient, centralizing the administration of a relocation with a single contractor, BGRS, with the exception of physical removal of Household Goods and Effects, administered under the Household Goods and Services Removal contract.
Government entities authorize their employees to relocate. BGRS administers their relocation according to one of 3 different directives/policies:
Canadian Forces IRP Directive
Royal Canadian Mounted Police IRP Policy
National Joint Council IRP Directive
Current operations at Shearwater are administratively and operationally part of CFB Halifax and revolve around two functionally separate facilities:
- Shearwater Heliport – heliport and related infrastructure largely supports the operations of 12 Wing, a unit of the RCAF which provides maritime helicopter services to the Royal Canadian Navy; and
- Shearwater Jetty – docks and shore-based infrastructure largely supports the fleet operations of Maritime Forces Atlantic and function as the home to Fleet Diving Unit Atlantic (FDU-A), as well as providing secure docking facilities for visiting NATO warships including nuclear-powered submarines and aircraft carriers.
- adjunct facilities formerly aligned with CFB Shearwater such as the Hartlen Point Golf Course are now attached to CFB Halifax
12 Wing
The Shearwater Heliport is the location of the headquarters of 12 Wing, whose sole purpose is to support and operate shipborne helicopters for the Royal Canadian Navy. 12 Wing is a RCAF unit and reports to 1 Canadian Air Division.
12 Wing operates out of two locations with four squadrons:
- Shearwater Heliport
- 406 Maritime Operational Training Squadron is an operational training squadron for training all maritime helicopter aircrew in the Canadian Forces.
- 423_Maritime_Helicopter_Squadron is an operational squadron at Shearwater Heliport which provides CH-124 Sea King helicopters for Maritime Forces Atlantic warships.
- 12 Air Maintenance Squadron provides aircraft maintenance and engineering support to 12 Wing’s operational squadrons.
- Helicopter Operational and Test Evaluation Facility (HOTEF) is responsible for researching and testing state-of-the-art equipment for the CH-124 Sea King to enable crews to operate efficiently, ashore or while deployed.
- Victoria International AirportPatricia Bay Heliport
- 443 Maritime Helicopter Squadron is an operational squadron which provides CH-124 Sea King helicopters for Maritime Forces Pacific warships.
