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I guess everyone seems to be on the same page then, as this was what was relayed to us during a "fireside chat" with the navres commodore/formation chief.

When I heard her say that in December, I thought "ok, a given ship might only sail 130 days, but given manning issues, I'd bet the average sailor will be spending much more time at sea than that, just on a different ship".

I think I'd agree about the problems of time commitments.  I've seen people in grad school parade/go on exercise regularily, though they admitted that it really broke their brain after, trying cope.  I've also seen full time law students do the same.  Myself, I'm starting grad school part time...

THe MCDVs do indeed do this, and it seems to work pretty well.  Though you do get a weird sense of deja-vu when doing rounds...

I could see the Liberal/NDP coalition comming to pass, but it might be pretty unpalatible for many Liberal MPs.    Might this be enough to push Ignatieff and a few others into crossing the floor?

My guess would be Fleet Dive Unit, since this is in the navy subforums.

Unfortunately, it seems that the truth (ie. facts) are not always a defence in a human rights complaint.

That doesn't mean that we can't dress real neat, from our hats to our feet, and surprise 'em with a victory cry.

Actually, it was President Kennedy that started the trend of men going hatless.  I think.

Based on the amalgamation of technical trades, have you heard anything about amalgamation of different ops trades?  Once in a while, one hears rumours of this happening.  If it were, has anyone from ops looked for any practices or lessons learned from what you've been working on?

Big, Ugly, Fat, Fcuker, Easily Replaced.  Well, not really. ;)

I think the navy needs to be realistic about what it can expect in terms of retention.  Perhaps the "worst" scenario is where someone joins, spends 6-12 months on BMQ/PAT/NETP, then 1.5 doing their QL3, only to get another 2.5 years of service, as they have released and found civilian work with...

I think to a certain extent this is already done.  I know at least one instance where a Mcpl served plenty of time in reg force, took the pension, switched to reserves, and just teaches BMQ most of the year.  Now, I doubt this practice is especially widespread, but could certainly serve as a...

The funniest gag pipe I ever heard was an actual bosn' pipe that had been played with.  We had a brand new AB, fresh of NETP, who had hardly ever used a call before (so he didn't really remember what it looked like).  So, when he was double-banked as quarter master, the supervising QM had the AB...

Even when the aops come, I doubt that we will see the mcdvs vanish.  I think we will keep a few so that we don't loose (anymore) minewarefare capacity.  I'd guess we would leave two active and one down ship on each coast, with the rest of the crews going to the aops.  We still need the mcdvs for...

Take a look at 0:35, looks a little like Tory, doesn't it?

Dr. Irwin had taught a course in military anthropology at the U of C last fall.  While discussing the notion of going "field gay", she had mentioned one case in a visit to Afghanistan where a lesbian soldier had told her (Dr. Irwin) that she (the lesbian) was actually going "field straight"...

There have often been troubles in finding enough shads for the MCDVs to sail.  I doubt that this would be a more popular option, once the novelty of not always being on an MCDV wears off.

I would have thought that as long as the powerbar was properly kit-marked, there would be no issue  ;)