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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.

Navy Pete’s view may vary, but seeing I was one ( or rather a Mar Eng Artificer), I’ll opine: 1. Move back to the operator/maintainer model that blends academics with hand skills, with focus on the latter. 2. Partner with local community colleges for academics. Credits to be completely...

I was involved in an ITAR audit as part of Annapolis’ disposal. This was a few years after Kootenay was sold with the ASROC manuals still onboard so there was a measure of hyper awareness that boarded on the ludicrous. In my case, it was removing o-rings from the boiler room glands condenser...

Not only that, the C&POs in 3 mess were mostly hammered by morning stand-easy. The MS and senior killicks ran the show. This was 35 years ago on my first ship. That all changed for the better around 5 years later. Strangely enough, that aligned with FRP…

The finished product is likely going to be substantially different from any model accessible for public consumption. Brit nuke boats have been historically quieter than the USN and MN for many years, never mind potential aggressors.

That's a perfect synopsis of current NDP fortunes and I agree on all of your points. Well done sir! Losing Mulcair (and ascension of Singh) was likely the worst thing that's happened to them since the McLaughlin/McDonough doldrums.

Zed’s dead baby.

It’s all about the duality of man, man.

Regards today’s Uni vs. yesterday’s HS: When my daughter was taking her B.Ed at UVic, she gave me a general rundown of the course curriculum. My circa 1985 Grade 13 course load was more challenging.

That’s nothing new. I have a high school pal who did a chemistry degree at Western, then had to do two years at Sheridan to learn how to apply it practically. This was almost forty years ago. It’s also a side effect of HS guidance councillors pushing uni over anything else. I wonder if they...

I was just thinking, 'drop the turret on a 432, they'll get another 50 years out of it' and you post this :D

I’ve been involved in those where a good proportion of the off watch-crew were hammered. Two beer per man perhaps got tossed out of the porthole. Looking back, if there had been a ship wide emergency, I wonder how we would have fared. I guess the inability to police ourselves is the primary...