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War Hero

Getting close to the old joke about if you want to join the navy son, buy your own boat ain't it!
onions said:Quote from Portsmouth North Labour MP, Sarah McArthy-Fry, " Personaly I am NOT hung up on numbers, because a modern warship can do the equivalent of six warships from 20 years ago".
What she fails to comprehend is that same warship cannot be in six places at the same time!!
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onions said:Quote from Portsmouth North Labour MP, Sarah McArthy-Fry, " Personaly I am NOT hung up on numbers, because a modern warship can do the equivalent of six warships from 20 years ago".
What she fails to comprehend is that same warship cannot be in six places at the same time!!
Keep Striving
Levers_Aligned said:onions said:Quote from Portsmouth North Labour MP, Sarah McArthy-Fry, " Personaly I am NOT hung up on numbers, because a modern warship can do the equivalent of six warships from 20 years ago".
What she fails to comprehend is that same warship cannot be in six places at the same time!!
Keep Striving
What a nice lass. I'd like a question put to her. How many days, hours, minutes or even seconds has she done in uniform? Clearly, she is not hung up on numbers, therefore we can expect even more manpower gapping, procurement ****-ups, stores shortfalls and delays in commissionings. Now by anyone's guess, if the Royal Navy was a private business (and let's face it, we are not that far away from that) we would be calling in the recievers. The management, fraudulent bastards that they are, seem to be stripping assets in the same manner that the carniverous business-buyers out there in the wide world do so ... except we are not talking about some fast-food restaurant chain here or a tyre making factory in the Black Country. We are talking about the 'greatest armed forces in the world' ((c) Hoon and Blair, almost holding hands in chorus when they used to chant it) It would be nice, once in a while, if certain MPs, secretaries of state, under secretaries, Whitehall movers and shakers and other such venal fuckwits with whom we seamlessly seem to have placed our sponsorship with (and many, if not all, don't understand a bean of service life or ethos) would come on down to the coalface, by-pass the big blue brick full of yes-men, and speak to the people that matter. I'd like to personally speak with the MP for Portsmouth North, person to person and ask her exactly how much she knows about the pressures we face and if we'd be happy with a navy that consists of six Type 45s, eight Type 23s, and a few amphib-capable landing ships. If she is convinced that Britian's world interests can be upheld and the ongoing contribution to NATO maintained, if she is wholly confident that should on of her 'six-ship' Type 45s suffer a serious damage control incident whilst under attack, if she is absolutely certain that everything we do, from Antarctic Patrol to Norway ops, from counter narcotics to disaster relief can be done by just 'God, and a handful of marines', then I'd like to see her detailed working out, and I'd like to see the names of the people who adviser her on such matters.
Typical Westminster-Village gobshite.
Levers
SILVER_FOX said:Obviously just another labour sheep following the party line. With comments like tat I wouldn't fancy her chances of getting re-elected in the Portsmouth area.
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Stripey_G said:Is it they join and no sea time, or just go ahead for the trade and be done with it. Britain rules the waves....yeah! :x
dixie_gooner said:Stripey_G said:Is it they join and no sea time, or just go ahead for the trade and be done with it. Britain rules the waves....yeah! :x
Not a chance of that, there are no jobs shoreside these days. Its sea time all the way, a bit of "harmony time" for courses and some leave and back on board
angrydoc said:As a skimmer, I balked a bit at the "decommission all 22s and 42s, cut back the number of 23s, and slow down procurement of 45s and Astutes". That would leave us with, erm, nothing - especially when you consider the remaining Fleet would probably be at "reduced readiness"!