Interview with the new CRCN

[Halifax Tar]

Worth the watch. Very focused on people.

 

[ArmyRick]

Worth the watch. Very focused on people.

Did you ever work with him?

 

[Halifax Tar]

Did you ever work with him?

Nope... Never met him.

 

[FSTO]

Did you ever work with him?

He was Commander of CTF 150 when I was with CMF in Bahrain. Very personable and easy to work with. His staff seemed to be extremely pleased with his leadership.

 

[ArmyRick]

He was Commander of CTF 150 when I was with CMF in Bahrain. Very personable and easy to work with. His staff seemed to be extremely pleased with his leadership.

Sounds like the RCN got a win with him as the boss.

 

[Navy_Pete]

Worth the watch. Very focused on people.

It'll be interested to see if that filters down into any real adjustments, as that's been a common theme for a while with RCN leadership, but still maintained crazy opscheds, training schedules etc that requires the shorthanded crews and staff to work insane hours with no real relief in sight to achieve. The CPFs and subs fleet rusting out with long DWPs, and the MCDVs getting killed at least forces a bit of a scale back, but they just shifted a heavier burden on to the ones that are left, and still haven't addressed the underlying issues that are burning people out.

Lot of leaders who are personable and care about the people they work with directly, but then drive down high level requirements that beats the hell out of people downstream that they don't see. Not sure if that's just because they are and abstract concept when you think about trickle down effects on hundreds of people or something.

 

[Eaglelord17]

It'll be interested to see if that filters down into any real adjustments, as that's been a common theme for a while with RCN leadership, but still maintained crazy opscheds, training schedules etc that requires the shorthanded crews and staff to work insane hours with no real relief in sight to achieve. The CPFs and subs fleet rusting out with long DWPs, and the MCDVs getting killed at least forces a bit of a scale back, but they just shifted a heavier burden on to the ones that are left, and still haven't addressed the underlying issues that are burning people out.

Lot of leaders who are personable and care about the people they work with directly, but then drive down high level requirements that beats the hell out of people downstream that they don't see. Not sure if that's just because they are and abstract concept when you think about trickle down effects on hundreds of people or something.

Unfortunately the CAF still has a mission no matter how few people it has to meet it.

Either attempt to accomplish said mission or you lose your job pretty quickly.

You can try and convince your bosses to lay off, but at the end of the day it is the GoC who controls the reigns not the CRCN.

 

[Navy_Pete]

Unfortunately the CAF still has a mission no matter how few people it has to meet it.

Either attempt to accomplish said mission or you lose your job pretty quickly.

You can try and convince your bosses to lay off, but at the end of the day it is the GoC who controls the reigns not the CRCN.

Sure, but there is the actual mission, then the amount of sailing the ships actually do, with the GoC never missing most of it, with a lot of the pain being self inflicted.

Plus, the GoC would probably not like to know how often our ships sail with collective defects that put them below SOLAS standards that would keep a commercial ship alongside until fixed to meet the opsched. If a warship isn't meeting civilian standards for things like redundancy and recoverability, you can imagine there is a much larger gap to combat recoverability, and being that far away in peacetime isn't great.

 

[dapaterson]

Sure, but there is the actual mission, then the amount of sailing the ships actually do, with the GoC never missing most of it, with a lot of the pain being self inflicted.

Plus, the GoC would probably not like to know how often our ships sail with collective defects that put them below SOLAS standards that would keep a commercial ship alongside until fixed to meet the opsched. If a warship isn't meeting civilian standards for things like redundancy and recoverability, you can imagine there is a much larger gap to combat recoverability, and being that far away in peacetime isn't great.

As long as the canopy over the flight deck is serviceable for cocktail receptions, the mission will be successful.

 

[Halifax Tar]

As long as the canopy over the flight deck is serviceable for cocktail receptions, the mission will be successful.

You don't know how real that statement is... Honestly that took up way to much of my time in 2024.

 

[dapaterson]

You don't know how real that statement is... Honestly that took up way to much of my time in 2024.

The original SOR for the AOPS had more details on the canopy requirement than on weapons systems.

 

[Viking17]

Did you ever work with him?

Shared a workspace with him on his first shore posting. He was recognized for his meticulous planning and execution, but more importantly he is a great guy. He was destined for flag-level command.
Down the hall we also had another superb young officer, Mike Wright. It was a great place to work!!

 

[Halifax Tar]

The original SOR for the AOPS had more details on the canopy requirement than on weapons systems.

I can believe it.

Was the intent to arm the AOPs ever really investigated seriously ?

 

[Gordon Dundas/]

I suspect very little was investigated on any thing involving the AOP . It was a political promise.
It was built because the PMO and the Cabinet wanted it built. I often wonder how thought was actually given by them as to what it was to do ?