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That's the one thing I don't get. How blind/uniformed/thick do you have to be?

Jim Hacker channeling his inner Justin. Quite prescient.

Nice. The golden rule of post-TRUMP 280s should have been: NEVER FUEL ALOGNSIDE (and if you have to, make sure it's a place where a small bribe/earner is enough to turn a blind eye to dumping your comp water in their harbour. It worked in Guam :p )

Be honest....who takes 15 minutes?

I seem to recall one of McNab's books mentioning that soft bog roll was a selling feature for a quikie tour of Crossmaglen rather than the rough wax stuff in Tidworth.

And since @Navy_Pete has alluded to the fun of water compensated tanks and fuel husbandry, despite the sterling efforts of our UDER, sometimes your gas was only as good as it's source, which during APOLLO was: 1. RN/RFA ( we reckoned they had a side hustle with the Sultan to get the good...

If you could dump fuel of suspect quality into an FT4, spin it and add a spark....it'd start. Fuel atomization/air assist was a nice to have. 570KF's on the other hand..........🤬

Machinist Mate Bloggins submits primary cooling loop water as his monthly pee sample.

Not much has changed....

Sir Humphrey tries to make sense of it: Does It Make Sense to Pay Off Frigates and LPDs? Possibly...

On average, they're a bit younger but equally knackered. I spent some time on a T42 in '02. Their stokers referred to the T23's as the "Skoda class" :D

Today’s Cons are where the ’90s era Libs used to be.

Guidance counsellors have a lot to answer for in pushing credentialism. My high school years were ‘80-85 in Ontario. Those five years were designed to produce a university entrant. If you had designs on a community college, you might get a look-in. If you were thinking vocational or trades...

Brick Tamland and Michael Scott on the same page discussing NCDs. Now that’s just weird….

Followed by a slug fest at the table. May as well go all-in like the Gallaghers.

I was refrigeration instructor at CFFSE from '94-'96 and for about 12 months, we had more staff than students. The death knell for the stoker branch was obvious to the most junior stoker in '95 when it was apparent that not only were we losing some of our career restricted PO2s who would...

“Soldiers” heh. I remember cringing whilst watching the members of the naval boarding party being laboriously winched down to the Katie’s deck one by one. Compare that to Huron’s boarding team being taught fast roping by RMs out of Gibraltar while transiting to the Gulf in ‘91. Although they...

That would have been the three unmodified Restigouche class and St. Laurent? For some reason I never put 2+2 together with their decommissioning aligning with the entry of the four IROs. I did my initial baby stoker training on St. Croix. What an antique that was.