Halifax Tar
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Worth the watch. Very focused on people.
Interview with the new CRCN
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ArmyRick
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Did you ever work with him?
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Nope... Never met him.
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He was Commander of CTF 150 when I was with CMF in Bahrain. Very personable and easy to work with. His staff seemed to be extremely pleased with his leadership.
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Sounds like the RCN got a win with him as the boss.
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It'll be interested to see if that filters down into any real adjustments, as that's been a common theme for a while with RCN leadership, but still maintained crazy opscheds, training schedules etc that requires the shorthanded crews and staff to work insane hours with no real relief in sight to achieve. The CPFs and subs fleet rusting out with long DWPs, and the MCDVs getting killed at least forces a bit of a scale back, but they just shifted a heavier burden on to the ones that are left, and still haven't addressed the underlying issues that are burning people out.
Lot of leaders who are personable and care about the people they work with directly, but then drive down high level requirements that beats the hell out of people downstream that they don't see. Not sure if that's just because they are and abstract concept when you think about trickle down effects on hundreds of people or something.
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Unfortunately the CAF still has a mission no matter how few people it has to meet it.
Either attempt to accomplish said mission or you lose your job pretty quickly.
You can try and convince your bosses to lay off, but at the end of the day it is the GoC who controls the reigns not the CRCN.
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Sure, but there is the actual mission, then the amount of sailing the ships actually do, with the GoC never missing most of it, with a lot of the pain being self inflicted.
Plus, the GoC would probably not like to know how often our ships sail with collective defects that put them below SOLAS standards that would keep a commercial ship alongside until fixed to meet the opsched. If a warship isn't meeting civilian standards for things like redundancy and recoverability, you can imagine there is a much larger gap to combat recoverability, and being that far away in peacetime isn't great.
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As long as the canopy over the flight deck is serviceable for cocktail receptions, the mission will be successful.
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You don't know how real that statement is... Honestly that took up way to much of my time in 2024.
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The original SOR for the AOPS had more details on the canopy requirement than on weapons systems.
Shared a workspace with him on his first shore posting. He was recognized for his meticulous planning and execution, but more importantly he is a great guy. He was destined for flag-level command.
Down the hall we also had another superb young officer, Mike Wright. It was a great place to work!!
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I can believe it.
Was the intent to arm the AOPs ever really investigated seriously ?
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I suspect very little was investigated on any thing involving the AOP . It was a political promise.
It was built because the PMO and the Cabinet wanted it built. I often wonder how thought was actually given by them as to what it was to do ?
It was built because the PMO and the Cabinet wanted it built. I often wonder how thought was actually given by them as to what it was to do ?
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AOPs got the weapon systems that made sense for the CONOPs and design.
They ship has the same combat recoverability as a fishing boat or a cargo ship, and just designed to go from points A to B showing the flag, so was fitted out as a non-combatant
On the plus side, that does allow them to do things like nest them with no duty watch on some of the ships and a few other things that they can't do as soon as they start adding some of the weapons systems, sensor and comms packages, and generally makes it cheaper and easier to fix and maintain.
They can slap whatever they want on it, but ignores the fact that it has a huge signature in every sense, isn't designed to take a hit, and doesn't have people to take a hit, so it's a liability in an actual shooting match, even as part of a task group, and if you want sensors in an area in our North, much easier and cheaper ways to do it than slap them on an AOPs and keep it operating in the Arctic region.
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