Recent content by Stoker

There are plenty of good ideas around, unfortunately none gets traction as they have a cost attached. Imagine if you joined you immediately qualified for a low interest mortgage and was guaranteed a family doctor for your family. They'll be knocking down the doors wanting to join.

Still a offshore yard and shouldn't be used for NSS.

Have you ever been on those things, not a really good go. After the PROTECTEUR fire crew were put on one of them in Pearl they had mattresses from a battleship. Lots of complaints.

Except for the fact they will be seen as adding to the acute housing problem and they need to have somewhere to stay. Put them in the Q's?

Or a reimaging of how we recruit at the fundamental level leveraging industry and state of the art trades training in modern facilities with the best training aids money can buy.

Several Halifax Class will soon self pay off and soon enough you'll see 4 to 5 Kingston's be laid up. Not enough crew or funding.

I'm sure they'll make their pitches although from what I have been hearing is that a NSS refresh might also be coming especially with a potential government change. Keep in mind as well that some of the procurement projects we have in progress are not fully funded and Kingston Class replacement...

That's what we do now and AOPS can handle the job I would think. AOPS doesn't have the extra protection of degaussing and AOPS is way larger in displacement and draft than the size of the MCM ships in OP Reassurance. We should have something in my opinion more in line of what we have now and...

Yes I can confirm that a corvette type vessel is going to be what's being looked at. There are people looking at the statement of requirements for that class of ship. They want the ship to be globally deployable however it won't be operating helos and it won't have an extensive combat suite...

Its a lot of things. Once each year we sent ships down to the naval station Roosevelt Roads Puerto just to paint the ship and that was over 25 years ago. Ships now get a full paint ship each time they go into a refit by contractors and it could be years between refits. The type of paint is...

I can hear the comments about the rust discharge and why didn't the ship paint them over on social media already....

Good old marine mammal reporting. No message is required for a sighting only if the mammal is hurt or otherwise in distress. The log must be filled out by the BWK though.

I know about the polar medal. They made the criteria so untenable that its only been awarded to a handful of people and just a couple of military.

Perhaps its time for a Arctic Bar for operations above the Arctic Circle?

Some people got coins.