Hose selected officers and NCOs to combine persistence with a willingness to improvise. The desired reserve culture paired holding the line with finding ways to accomplish an unfamiliar task. A colourful wartime anecdote attributes a submarine's capture to three Canadian sailors who boarded naked with pistols and reached its control positions. The imagined reaction of the German crew is part of the joke, rather than evidence about what they actually thought. Alex Clarke recognises the same combination of adaptability and stoicism in Canadian officers and reservists he has met.
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Hose built a reserve culture for wartime adaptation
Hose's selection of reserve leaders encouraged improvisation under pressure, illustrated by a deliberately comic submarine-boarding anecdote.