Career
Wood joined the Royal Canadian Navy in 1951. He became Commanding Officer of the submarine HMCS Ojibwa in 1967, a staff officer in the Directorate of Equipment Requirements at the National Defence Headquarters in 1970 and Commander of the First Canadian Submarine Squadron in 1972. After that he became Senior Maritime Liaison Officer to The Netherlands in 1979, Director General Maritime Doctrine and Operations at the National Defence Headquarters in 1980 and Chief of Maritime Doctrine and Operations in 1983.
His last appointment was as Commander Maritime Command in 1983, in which role he demanded at least six more frigates to meet Canada"s North Atlantic Treaty Organization commitment, before he retired in 1987.
