Recent content by Grimey

With two trumped 280s on the west coast from 1995 onwards, there was only a crew and a half for both with only one at high readiness. If both were at sea, it was local waters only and I only remember that happening once. Having HUR decommissioned and tied up in 2000 with a skeleton crew...

Like the Lee Grants. Instantly obsolete when the Sherman came out, but better than anything Mutaguchi had. Battle winner at Imphal/Kohima after the DC3s.

Maybe producing the Battle of the Admin Box with a focus on this local lad would be doable, if the Aussie Kokoda film is the template: Charles Ferguson Hoey - Wikipedia. incidentally, I now find myself reading everything on Slim, 14th Army and the Burma Campaign in general.

The likeness is uncanny. Wonder if they have the same taste in white bread, toasted, dry, with nothin' on it.

Someone probably was grinding an axe for 25+ years from when they did something stupid as a subbie and got corrected by the cert 3 on watch or something, and has basically screwed the RCN for a generation. Cough.......Ron Lloyd.....cough.

"......adding he was popular with local women."

What is this Cert 4 you speak of.................?

How can we give a subgroup of the RCN special treatment while undermining morale for the remainder, having a likely fairly severe operational impact and grow overall resentment. Oh, and don’t spend a penny? I applaud the ‘back to the future’ and slapped upside the head with the wet reality...

But tell us how you really feel, Decks!

Break out the hexi!

That's news to me. A real rarity. Must have been a cool trip.

It's the perpetual optimism of the average Canadian voter. After 9 years of policies that have put the country in the shitter, in year 10 the same policies with a shiny new (albeit white, anglo and middle-aged) front cover will result in a greenish golden age where everything is put to rights.

That was the plus side of losing HUR in 2000 for us west coast 280 ladies. For the rest of ALG’s time, we had half a crew ashore at the school and FMF. Enabled us to avoid the burnout of back-to-back deployments.

Losing the blue boat is the dictionary-definition of the head-shed knowing the cost of everything but the value of nothing.