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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (4181)	2/27/1999 5:54:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

'Early march to New Year's By STEPHANIE RUBEC, Parliamentary Bureau Canada's military is set to stage possible Y2K scenarios beginning tomorrow. About 500 soldiers from the joint taskforce headquarters will move from their Kingston base to Ottawa in trailers for a millennium training exercise called Joint Start II. The first Y2K exercise will test whether the taskforce, which boasts deployability to anywhere in the world, can live up to its mandate. For the next week, soldiers will test their communications systems and play out situations they might face in the millennium. The military will iron out any kinks before launching the second phase of their training exercise in May. A third is scheduled for September when more military units will participate. But the military hopes government and businesses will deal with their own Y2K problems before the millennium arrives, admitting it can't cover the country from coast to coast. A preliminary report on the millennium mission, dubbed Operation Abacus, warns that the 60,000 soldiers put on alert -- 20,000 available to be dispatched to trouble spots -- and the available resources can't handle a country-wide crisis. "Sorry, but 20,000 troops can't be everywhere and do everything," said Maj. John Blakeley. CITIES STRANDED? Huge chunks of the country will have to fend for themselves if too many cities try to call in the army. Blakeley said the military's first priority will be getting their communications system running and ensuring the defence department is problem-free. Any glitches would reduce the availability of the 20,000 soldiers slated for deployment. The hardest-hit areas would get help from the remaining soldiers. The report has soldiers busy in January and possibly into July. The military won't pull out of its international obligations, but will stop all military flights for an indefinite period starting Jan. 1, 2000. That means about 4,000 Canadian soldiers serving outside the country will have to stockpile food and equipment so they don't run out, because no one can tell how long the planes will be grounded or needed in Canada. canoe.ca