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When les grenouille get up to these kind of shenanigans, this always comes to mind:

That's akin to the Ranger's adoption of the sandy beret when the US Army as a whole moved to black.

That’s a massive drop in standards if true. The RCAF provided the Buckingham Palace guard for a spell only a few years ago. I had an ex-stoker colleague who’d re-enlisted as an AVN tech and who was part of it. He gave me a rundown on being beasted by the nasty Guards’ Colour Sergeants. 😀

Being twelve years removed from uniform and peripherally aware that the dress and deportment manual had been binned, I just side eyed him scornfully.

Can’t say the same. I saw LS (oops, S1) Bag-o-shite Bloggins in the Colwood Thrifty’s a few weeks back. Submariner coveralls with the ‘morale’ patches (wtf is that about, we made do with a ships crest and name tag) scraggly hair to his mid shoulders and pooor imitation ZZ Top beard. It was...

Who’s the old codger in Denison smock and general officer tabs you’re having a chat with?

Electoral College tries to enter the chat.......

Cutting steel…maybe. But there’s the 4 Dreadnougnt class SSBN’s first. I know the big assembly hall in Barrow has been enlarged recently, but I can’t see Dreadnought and AUKUS SSN’s being built simultaneously.

That 32k includes RM also, around 7k.

Absolutely brutal. There's a reason the 'Regiments' 2 squadron is linked with other tier one units like the hooligans and those guys from Poole. They'd out perform those 1 Para bods any day...........(ducks for cover).

You forgot the bad news: Two Royal Navy frigates to be retired

Definitely a RN inherited thing. Remember Dirt on Op APOLLO? We had a whip around for him for presentable NCD’s for him to wear before x-polling to a Greek frigate for the day. I think he got a spare shirt from me. Next day, he comes back still looking like Mr. Bag-o-shite. Dan Riis just...

Ah yes, the Viraat mid Pacific trade-off. That tale refuses to die.

I don’t think that bean counter exits. As to who commands the RCN, I think it’s still the CRCN…but the position is influenced by a segment of senior RCN staff in Ottawa plus various civilian hanger-ons who filter the cold hard reality of the RCN’s daily struggle to stay relevant in order for...

Wombish you say...

Camera off function first I hope!

Ah, the good ole' days of baseline refits when your Y-100 powered destroyer came out of the yard with the same sleek Greyhound of Death attributes it had when it was new from the builders. We're some decades away from that, sir :)

There was another Sheffield between the T42 from Falklands fame and the T26 in build. A Type 22 sold to Chile. So, right next door to Argentina for that extra level of friskiness.

Went thru Cornwallis with a townie and a half-dozen or so Bay Boys or whatever they call themselves when they're from Leading Tickles. We could converse with the townie. With the rest, we just looked at them and made fog horn noises.