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Ah, the Conveying Helmet. Seriously though, that was a black mark on the CF that nobody gave him a nudge and mentioned “wrong way ‘round”.

Likewise. There’s some classics though. Including a preponderance of water wings.

Looking sharp Don 😀

I dunno. Seeing the AB get birds in The Warship: Tour of Duty for being adrift whilst wearing tropical square rig looked totally anachronistic. The rig also looked sharp as hell.

One that worked for me was like that. Super competent but a complete bag-o-shite. Twenty years later he still goes by Dirt.

When I got to my first ship (ok, Bay-class mine sweeper) on the left coast in early ‘88, “allowed” reading on watch that weren’t CFTOs were the Royal Navy engineering journals. This was 6ish years after all the fun and excitement down south so Falklands after action reports and findings were...

I thought Rip said that was in a NW chunk of Wyoming?

You really think that the attitude west of the Rockies is any different? The island is painted orange and green.

The non-skid did flake off in a matter of weeks though :) Support back then from the N37 equivalent was excellent as was the FLOG. Both helped make two cruise engine change-outs run as smoothly as possible. It helped that the MWO running it knew most of us senior Mar Eng bods from her prior...

Perhaps, although with the attrition rate over the last ten years, I’d imagine that anybody with the quals has already done so.

It‘s not that easy nowadays. Ten plus years ago, there would have been a direct trade equivalency. As a Mar Eng Tech in ‘95, I handed my fee over and wrote the millwright exam. As a post tour CPO2 in 2011, I handed over my fee to the BC Boiler Safety Branch and el-presto, I was a 2nd Class...

I read you on innocuous items being catalogued as a NSN. Immediately prior to Annapolis’ disposal around the tail end of 2000, I was involved in an ITAR survey on MSE systems. A few things had crept on to the list including the boiler smoke mirrors and anodes on the glands condenser below the...

The two ex regiment guys in the podcast above say as much.

Mine had artificer spelt ‘articifer’. No one ever did notice 😀.

Absolutely! In my current job, a few years back I sourced a few boiler combustion control system I/O cards that had been out of production for years on eBay. The pics of same were invaluable in determining it was the right part.

Around 2010, PRO sourced a main stop valve from a scrapyard in Phoenix.

Spraying hot lead from the door mounted mini gun?!! Agreed with Furniture on wondering how this got by the fun police.

Dang beer goggles. Curses!

The ones under Hillier/Harper weren't bad. The 'Decade of Darkness' ones prior to that really did suck.