Allegiance Canada Rank Vice admiral Role Commanding officer | Name Robert George Years of service 1961-c.1994 | |
Service/branch Royal Canadian Navy
Canadian Forces Commands held HMCS Margaree
HMCS Iroquois
Second Canadian Destroyer Squadron
Maritime Forces Pacific
Maritime Command Awards Order of Military Merit, Canadian Forces Decoration | ||
Vice-Admiral Robert Earl Douglas George CMM, CD (born 6 October 1940) is a retired officer of the Canadian Forces. He was Commander Maritime Command from 1989 to 1991.
Career
Cairns joined the Royal Canadian Navy in 1961. He became Commanding Officer of the destroyer HMCS Margaree in 1974, Senior staff Officer (Combat Systems Readiness) in 1976 and Commanding Officer of the destroyer HMCS Iroquois in 1977. He went on to be Commander of the Second Canadian Destroyer Squadron in 1982, Director General of Maritime Doctrine and Operations at the National Defence Headquarters in 1984 and Commander Maritime Forces Pacific in 1987. After that he became Commander Maritime Command in 1989, in which role he despatched the supply ship HMCS Protecteur to the Persian Gulf during the Gulf War, before becoming Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff from 1991 and Canadian Military Representative to the NATO Military Committee in 1992 and then retiring.