Recent content by stoker dave

Agree with Mr Eaglelord17. I worked for 30 years as a licensed professional engineer and am now semi-retired. I think I have a pretty good grasp of applied math, science and chemistry and could likely teach senior high school and pepper the lessons with lots of real-world applications. How...

Young people today have a reasonable chance of living to be 100 years old. I don't know why we (as a society) force them to make choices when they are perhaps 16 years old that may impact their entire lives. I think more young folks should be encouraged to travel, volunteer, 'gap year', join...

Like most Navy folks, I used to mock the shipborne air department as was the fad. But during Gulf War I those guys more than pulled their weight. Much respect for what they did and do.

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A billion years ago we had nurses onboard one of the ships for a while (acknowledging that was a unique circumstance). Just curious: do nurses posted to Halifax and Esquimalt still have the opportunity to be posted to ships and travel the world? So for the person asking, IF the answer to...

My experience is decades old and I would generally agree with you, with the caveat that perhaps education / training should perhaps be included in that list. A military job that is adventurous, dangerous and gives you skills / training to set you up in a career (within the military.... or...

I would tell this person that they have a reasonable chance to live to 100 years old and may reasonably have a 40 year working career. I would say forget about your 'career' until you are 30. In the interim, go to school, read poetry, travel the world, go on the road with a rock band and do...

I came from a pretty messed up and financially stressed family. As a teenager, the only way I could see to get a university education was ROTP / RMC. I think the RMC intake includes quite a number of kids for whom this was the only path to higher education. Closing that pathway would (from...

I don't know if (in my day) the shipboard medics were PAs or some other similar trade but I found them consistently helpful, knowledgeable and dedicated.

In theory, I like that approach. In practice, it is tricky. The tricky part is getting Irving (or any other contractor) to take responsibility and show the same level level of commitment, dedication and focus on the outcome as the ship's company. My experience is dated, but certainly...

Perhaps, but also perhaps arrogant. Without evidence, I speculate he thought he could do this and get away with it.....

A walk around the goes beyond the limits of bridge, wardroom, ops room and CO's cabin :) Too many NWOs are afraid of machinery spaces.

Well said. As a junior MARE, I made it my mission to walk about as much as I could. At sea, that was day or night. Thread drift: one of my best memories was sitting on the deck (floor) of the machinery control room at about 3:00 am with the on-watch stokers. There was not much going on...

I am always surprised (although I shouldn't be) at the number of poseurs that show up in legion regalia - the tie, the pins, etc. I think the legion needs to tighten up its screening. (Yes, I know there is a whole other thread about the legion).

Just for a point of reference, as a junior officer I wrote up a grievance. I passed it to my supervisor (a senior officer) who was next in my CoC. When he read it, he came up with a solution that satisfied me and solved the problem. No more grievance. So sometimes just documenting...