Weekend portrait: Reserve captain-ter-sea Servaty passes on helm

“Frigate captains, corvette captains, ensigns ter-zee, … You will accept as your new commanding officer …” Under that calibrated formula, accompanied by the typical naval whistle-blowers, reserve captain-ter-sea Daniel Servaty – as a civilian a maritime lawyer and insurer – recently passed on his command of the Naval Reserve to Eddie Van Raemdonck. In addition to dozens of navy men, several twentysomethings and thirty-somethings-in-civilian-suits looked on: including young lawyers and civil servants who will soon be adding a career as reservists in the Navy.