Multi Role Boats (and other small boats thread).

[Kirkhill]

Aye. There's a plan.

Wait until there's a threat and then we'll figure out what to do about it and conjure a response.

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

Aye. There's a plan.

Wait until there's a threat and then we'll figure out what to do about it and conjure a response.

Aye! There is, and its not what you mention.

I don't know how you do things in the Army, but in the Navy, we have a whole bunch of contingency plans for all sorts of things, the are called (or used to be called) MAOP's (Maritime Operations Plans). And there is one for Harbour Defense, and there is one for Coastal Defense. I know because before my retirement, I had worked, with many others, on their updating, and served for a term as the assigned Coastal Defense Sector Commander for a given sector.

So, no, the plan is NOT to wait for a threat to occur and then "figure out" what to do, or "conjure up" a response. It's all been done and can be activated if and when needed.

 

[YZT580]

Aye! There is, and its not what you mention.

I don't know how you do things in the Army, but in the Navy, we have a whole bunch of contingency plans for all sorts of things, the are called (or used to be called) MAOP's (Maritime Operations Plans). And there is one for Harbour Defense, and there is one for Coastal Defense. I know because before my retirement, I had worked, with many others, on their updating, and served for a term as the assigned Coastal Defense Sector Commander for a given sector.

So, no, the plan is NOT to wait for a threat to occur and then "figure out" what to do, or "conjure up" a response. It's all been done and can be activated if and when needed.

not suggesting anything but having spent years involved in government contingency planning I discovered that whenever there was a crisis someone would dial up the page labelled emergency procedures and discover that it called for the used of an ALDIS lamp or a red flare pistol in the event of a comm. failure. In other words the book hadn't been updated or probably even opened in a decade or more. So someone would be tasked with revising and re-writing which would be done, the new documents would become part of that year's training programme and that was it until the next crisis. All of the above written to say we were very good at writing plans but not very good at ensuring they are updated and that all those people who had a task in that book were continuously involved in familiarization and sometimes, rehearsal.

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

The plan I am talking about were revised and updated roughly every ten years, and had been so since WWII, when I worked on them. Seeing as some of the work of the MCDV's and now the AOPV/ORCA I can observe incorporate training that I can see derive from those plans, I can only assume that it's been updated once or twice since my retirement. It's not perfect but it's a lot more current than what you seem to imply.