Recent content by Lumber

I don't disagree that a warship that can deploy a series of drones can provide extremely high utility in certain circumstances/missions. But you can't sacrifice core war fighting capabilities. Can these drones close with an enemy fleet on the open ocean, get past their defences and sink them...

This is going the same way as the Baden-Württemberg-class frigate; defence industries and politicians are getting way too focused on the "du jure" capabilities and not looking at the big picture. One of those articles says "How many drones does it take to replace a destroyer?" Well, how many...

You're not wrong, but, at least from my experience in the Navy, by the time you make Captain (Lieutenant), you are either expected to know the answer, know where to find and interpret the answer, or know the SME in your unit who can give you an answer (and have the wherewithal to notice when...

Umm... you're a Captain and you need to come on here for advice on this? Or did you just use Captain as example in your memo demo?

Even if you could, do you really want to?

Woops. I meant Bravo.

The slow pace of our "construction industry" in general will hamper things. NC has to be replaced, and apparently that is a 6 year project. How on earth did it take 4 years to build the entire Golden Gate bridge, but it will take 6 years to tear down and rebuild NC?

I know the guy who's drawing up all the potential new jetties to find ways to fit all these new ships. I have no idea of what is actually going to finally be proposed and approved. However, what they did have to do is draw up plans for different "scales" or fleet size increase, including coming...

I'll admit that "international reputation" isn't the same thing as whether or not we are "taken seriously", but there certainly are overlaps. What really irks me is the constant blathering from those on the right in Canada (not specifically you, Rick, but this comment echoes it) claiming that...

One time coming down on a bus full of RMC students on our way to WestPoint, the boarder guard just came on the bus, stood at the front and said "Do you all have your passports?". We all raised our passports up in the air. He took a quick glance around and said "Carry-on", got off the bus, and...

Just like very few people knownthe difference between "aboard" and "on board".

Our chief was giving briefing to the whole department and mentioned something along the lines "and if you need xxx just go to the Weapons Officer", and it dawned on me: do the S3s and even S2s even know what a Weapons Officer is, let alone who it is? I asked a couple of them and they had no...

That is actually surprising. As a junior officer, regardless of trade, the first thing you do when you get aboard is start working toward your "Officer of Day" qualification. I remember by boss, the NavO, telling us one of those first few days to "Go wander the ship and try and get lost, and...

It's funny/disappointing because, I would have been happy to give a tour and explanation of ops to any cook, storesy, bosn, stoker, etc. if they wanted to come check out Ops.

I once had a cook walk into Ops. His eyes went wide like he had walked into Neverland.