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Or front fanny vs. rear fanny.

How about a morale patch?

There’s some real gems here: African Infantryman of the Year

It does seem like FRP by other means. Trudy mentions above that this is a gut punch to those with 8-15 in whether in Q‘s or on the economy. Couldn’t agree more. When stokers were offered FRP in ‘94, the intent, other than the peace dividend malarkey, was to reduce the bloat within those years...

I was at a pub night last night with retired shipmates and one still serving. Didn’t know the latter personally, but with hair halfway down his neck and over his ears, easy to mistake for the former. The retirees had shorter hair or none. He had a long face to go with his hair ( this being...

Harper did a few months short of ten years. JT has some way to go to match that.

…along with co-ed showers!

In ‘89 or ‘90 as a young killick Cert 2, I visited Fundy’s bridge before going on watch. It was a cold and blustery day. Sandy Bellows was the CO and archetypical ”Old man and the Sea” while the OOW was a young Brian Santarpia who was five shades of green and puking over the side.

Ah, the Conveying Helmet. Seriously though, that was a black mark on the CF that nobody gave him a nudge and mentioned “wrong way ‘round”.

Likewise. There’s some classics though. Including a preponderance of water wings.

Looking sharp Don 😀

I dunno. Seeing the AB get birds in The Warship: Tour of Duty for being adrift whilst wearing tropical square rig looked totally anachronistic. The rig also looked sharp as hell.

One that worked for me was like that. Super competent but a complete bag-o-shite. Twenty years later he still goes by Dirt.

When I got to my first ship (ok, Bay-class mine sweeper) on the left coast in early ‘88, “allowed” reading on watch that weren’t CFTOs were the Royal Navy engineering journals. This was 6ish years after all the fun and excitement down south so Falklands after action reports and findings were...

I thought Rip said that was in a NW chunk of Wyoming?

You really think that the attitude west of the Rockies is any different? The island is painted orange and green.

The non-skid did flake off in a matter of weeks though :) Support back then from the N37 equivalent was excellent as was the FLOG. Both helped make two cruise engine change-outs run as smoothly as possible. It helped that the MWO running it knew most of us senior Mar Eng bods from her prior...

Perhaps, although with the attrition rate over the last ten years, I’d imagine that anybody with the quals has already done so.

It‘s not that easy nowadays. Ten plus years ago, there would have been a direct trade equivalency. As a Mar Eng Tech in ‘95, I handed my fee over and wrote the millwright exam. As a post tour CPO2 in 2011, I handed over my fee to the BC Boiler Safety Branch and el-presto, I was a 2nd Class...