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It was just a guess.  My community has those problems with DRDC but YMMV.

I think that the key to this is the requirement to create the product "using data from a variety of unclassified sources" so that it can be handled by DRDC personnel and interns who may not have security clearances.  Just my  :2c:

Must be a slow news day.  It's part of a whole genre on Youtube.  Here's a slightly better done version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1-5I25T7fM&feature=player_embedded

Fixed a typo.

60-120 days at sea per year is normal for most ships.  Keep in mind that you won't be posted to a ship every year either as you will rotate ashore for courses and staff positions.

Except that playing with the heads of air crew is a favourite submariner hobby... >:D

Bottomed and anchored? ;D  FYI - it's the weight of the anchor cable that holds a vessel fast and not the anchor itself.  How do you run the cable out while bottomed or vice versa? USNI is as close to an inside journal as possible but whatever.  Dr. Vego is a professor of operations at the...

from Wikipedia... ... August 1968 when she transferred to Mare Island for overhaul and installation of: side thrusters; hangar section sea lock; anchoring winches with fore and aft mushroom anchors... Since it is not really relevant to the debate of SSK vs. SSN, I'll move on from your...

Check with a recruiter about the class 5 requirement.  It might not apply to PRes Medical Technicians.

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All Clearance Divers begin as ship's team divers where they will spend several years completing tasks using SCUBA diving equipment as a secondary duty to their normal trade.  Once they are trade qualified (CoC II for MARS) then they can volunteer to become Clearance Divers and attend a tough two...

How?  Sea-shore ratios are closely watched by Career Managers and ships don't spend anywhere near that amount of time at sea.  Even continuous pier head jumps would not lead to surpassing that figure 'every year'.

Yes – I’m DEO and was married shortly before I joined.  Sea time puts certain stress on a marriage but so does going away on business etc. MARS training at VENTURE permits you to live out (after MARS II when I did it, not sure about now).  Timewise that would occur 3 months (or so) after you...

Regulations are in place to cap sea time at a maximum of 150 days per year although this can be exceeded in rare circumstances.  Very few people approach this maximum ever.  In my personal case, I have been MARS for 18 years and have 16 years of "sea time" which equates to being posted to an...

DeckO is a position that is generally filled between a Director tour and ORO.  Frequently it is filled by folks who didn't make the cut for the ORO course (for whatever reason) and are looking for a second shot.  It is equal to CCISO (communications officer) and both fill OOW billets at sea in...

I thought it was short for Quantum Field Theory... ;)

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Which leaves them vulnerable to your proposed touch down and trim forward technique.  The lack of a keel block is another impediment to bottoming since the base of the sonar array doesn’t appear to be sufficiently reinforced to support that kind of weight.  However this discussion is about USN...

I’ll try re-phrasing my question.  Why do SSKs need a tender but SSNs don’t? Without explaining the technical reasons for why the fibreglass needs to be protected, look at pictures from the groundings of USS San Francisco, HMS Trafalgar, and HMS Superb…

Not a bad guess.  Older SSNs did indeed have their sonar arrays on the top but many/most navies went away from that approach with the advent of wire guided weapons.  Here are some open source drawings of modern submarines with the sonar array on the bottom/front: 688 (the largest class of SSN...