Recent content by Navy_Pete

Some of the old auxiliaries got sold off, but we're officially never going with a reef society again after having to take a few back and then disposing of them properly and also spend millions more on others to support artificial reefs. With the changing environmental regs usually by the time...

There is actually an offer from a Pacific Rim country to buy them. Sale of ships is interesting, at one point there was a serious proposal to sell Huron to some Shiek to turn into a superyacht. It got turned off because it turned out some critcal systems were still officially ITAR (even if it...

That's good news, only taken 2 years. I hope they realize the entire jawline is part of the sealing area, so basically leaves you with a stache and slightly longer sideburns, and maybe a soul patch.

I think it's ignoring the safety and operational requirement bit that is the issue but I also don't think having to run a comb through hair and beards and requiring it to look neat is unreasonable. Hopefully this brings a bit of sanity back, but doesn't really change that we're currently eating...

May be seeing their tailights but they are hotboxing their car and thinking happy thoughts, but they probably have some senior navy folk there with them. I think the GoC figures the AOPs will replace the MCDVs, even if they are completely different roles and capabilities (and cost way more to...

It's nice they specifically mention the Respiratory protection program; that's the one that includes the specific direction for being clean shaven for fire fighting masks and what is very sporadically enforced. Some units actually enforce it and have everyone clean shaven without a med chit...

This isn't new; that's been going on my whole adult life. The difference is more on the governing side of things where it seems like any idea from the other side is automatically stupid. At least before they used to freely poach from each others campaign plans etc, which I think is great.

Don't care about that, it's more that they spend time sniping at each other just to get a 15 second clip for tic tok instead of every actually collaborating on anything. They are so polarized across the board they are unable to actually compromise and work with people they don't like to get shit...

It really pisses me off generally that we spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year on running Parliament and they can't even conduct themselves to the level of civil behaviour you expect in primary school. How many of us would be fired/charged or otherwise punished for behaving like this at...

There is no budget for a giant screen wall. Honestly though, still easier on paper with numerous sheets in some cases, especially when one giant sheet is a deck on the ship. You can physically line them up and follow it up or down directly, so some of the piping, HVAC and wiring runs are just...

Not so much secure spaces, but they overlooked secure storage as well as actual storage for things that can't be digitized (like expensive standards or reference books). At the moment we just consilidated into an area, so not a big deal to keep the lockup for some legacy confidential documents...

You mean like the buildings being renovated to cut the footprint down to 40% of what it was when everyone had an assigned desk? That's on the go, and is a bit of a shit show as per normal, but they literally won't have spots for everyone to come in everyday, military or civilian.

Need a sad laugh reaction! But yeah. Even 3 years after long covid messing up my lungs, I still am in better shape than quite a few. Edit: Come to think of it, I think facial hair interfering with mask seals may have been in the CHI BOI, so will look that one up tomorrow in the office in my...

Sure, and expect after some charges for COs and up for not following orders on top of negligence charges that might change. The institution is basically more concerned about people's feelings than operational requirements or combat effectiveness in some things (but not enough to stop beating...

There are some real operational requirements that require people to be clean shaven so a mask can get a seal. The problem is the institution can't grow a spine and enforce it, but anyone that is supposed to be fire fighting is an obvious example. I know I harp on about this one, but the RCN...