"The Warrior" for the Navy?

[buchu]

Hi all, I have just joined the site and have been trying to find an answer using the search function, but have only found frustration with it.

The thing is, a friend of mine lent me a copy of “The Warrior, the Combat Readiness Standards,” and I have found it to be excellent bedtime reading.  (That waterproof paper will make it good camping reading too.)

I am thinking seriously about joining the Navy and am wondering what the naval equivalent of that handbook is called?

Many thanks.

 

[TAS278]

"The Alcoholic"

Just joking. Not sure if we have a book like that? Maybe some of the senior members can better direct you

 

[buchu]

Thanks for the reply TAS278, I was beginning to worry that I had asked a completely asinine question.

I think I had better clarify what the Warrior is, as perhaps you Navy lot have never even come across it.

As far as I can tell, it is issued to all new infantrymen (or was at some point, as I can not tell the age of my copy,) and contains “the essentials of combat survival which must be mastered by every soldier.  It is not an aide-memoire for leaders and commanders - these exist elsewhere: rather it is a summary of the ‘must knows’ for each soldier; these are essentials for self-protection and to ensure that you are ready to be a contributing member of the team…” (W.B. Vernon, Major General Commander, Land Force Central Area - foreword)

Here is the chapter listing:

1. General Military Knowledge
2. Sevice rifle 3.36MM C7/C8
3. Light Machine Gun 5.56MM C9
4. Short Range Anti-Armour Weapon (Light)
5. Short Range Anti-Armour Weapon (Heavy)
6. (some other weapon, I am tired of copying)
7. (Some type of grenade)
8. Fieldcraft
9. Battlecraft
10. Navigation
11. Radiotelephone Procedures
12. Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defence
13. Combat Lifesaving
Annex A Short Description of Personal Test Procedures

And before the first chapter there is a page showing the different rank insignia.

So yeah, I’d love to know what the naval version is, so I can get ahead of the game if I get into botc, or just for my own interest.  I love reading technical manuals and such, so any other suggestions for good reading would be appreciated.  (I know this board itself is good reading, but I really prefer hard copy texts.)

Thanks again.

 

[aesop081]

2. Sevice rifle 3.36MM C7/C8

Should read "Service riffle 5.56 mm C7/C8"

 

[Neill McKay]

So yeah, I’d love to know what the naval version is, so I can get ahead of the game if I get into botc, or just for my own interest.  I love reading technical manuals and such, so any other suggestions for good reading would be appreciated.  (I know this board itself is good reading, but I really prefer hard copy texts.)

Perhaps a good bit of reading for you would be the NETP-O course manual.  (I'm sorry to say I don't have a copy to share.)  NETP-O is a course that would follow your BOTC and provide you with an introduction to the navy, firefighting and damage control, seamanship, etc.  If BOTC turns civilians into generic CF officers, NETP-O turns generic CF officers into naval officers.

Another excellent book, no longer produced (unless I'm mistaken) is the Seaman's Handbook.  (You may run across it in used bookstores.)  It's  about an inch thick, and includes everything from duties of various watchstanders (lookouts, etc.) to damage control.  Some of the more technical information will be dated, but you'd probably find it interesting anyway.

 

[Navy_Blue]

I had a copy of the Worrier when I was in the res.  Think its still packed away some where.  I think the closest thing to that would be a "Know Your Ship Book."  The worrier was just a "Know Your Grunt Book"   If your interested in the Navy and want info just ask the question on here your get a reply

 

[buchu]

Thanks for the great replies!

Should read "Service riffle 5.56 mm C7/C8"

Ah, sorry about that!  You know I looked at that chapter for fun after you mentioned it, and noticed the picture of the C7, and to me that bayonet looks like a Fairbairn-Sykes commando dagger (with a square ricasso,) am I right?  It’s really hard to tell from the grainy little photo, but that is a knife on my wish list.

And Neil and Navy_Blue, thanks, I will hunt down those three titles!  For now I am just using some basic texts I found at the good old public library about boating, warships, NATO ships (but that one is so dated) etc.

Think I’ll hit the books now 

 

[Navy_Blue]

That bayonet is the cheapest piece of crap.  White metal and it breaks off.  I had two snap in half in the field.  Not the knife you want!

 

[buchu]

Whoa, really?  I guess it was made only to look like a F-S, not perform like one.  I still want a quality knife of F-S design, though.  What strikes me is that F-S design is more suited to hand-to-hand, as I think the blade is way too slender for a bayonet.

Can you tell me what the blade length was on that “piece of crap?” 

The knife I use right now is the Cold Steel Kobun, but I want to get a Tanto.  I have accidentally hit the Kobun’s edge hard against granite and only got a slight burr.

Oh, and you mentioned a general “know your ship book.”  The type of general texts I have found go a lot into sailing and sails (I have words like leech, luft, camcleat, grapnel, windlass, and all sorts of sailing jargon) all going through my head, but is this sort of sailing terminology at all useful to know for the Navy?  Of course I am sure it is good to know the meaning of things like bulkhead, mast, boom, aft, abaft, stern, astern, aloft, starboard, port, etc. Just not sure how useful it is to know the hardcore sail-sailing stuff…?

 

[NavyShooter]

The thing with this is that there's so many different trade specialties in the Navy, that no single book covers them all.

That said, the one underlying one is the CFCD 105 (or is it 102?) that covers Seamanship.  Sailors first. 

The NETP course is a good preliminary, but I don't have the course info, and I did mine under a different name 13 years ago.

If you wanted to see all the stuff I have to do as part of my trade, it'd take me pages to list it all.

NavyShooter

 

[buchu]

The thing with this is that there's so many different trade specialties in the Navy, that no single book covers them all.

Hmmm, fair enough then, I shall just concentrate on trying to find the NETP-O manual, a general seamanship book, and I’ll look into the CFCD 105/102(?)

Clearly I’ll only be able/need to study the groundwork until I know what my role in the Navy will be.  And besides, I think I am using all this studying as a form of procrastination, as I should be more concerned about physical training at the moment.  If only I was half as fit as I am bookish!

Okay, I am off to do my calisthenics!  ushup: