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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dunkers" data-source="post: 546173" data-attributes="member: 814">Well I imagine HMS Caledonia is a good draft as there is absolutely NOTHING there. (Hence no work to do.)I went through there on Friday night and the place is so quiet I had an entire accommodation block to myself (Anson block - 100 or so bunks). It was a cold, dark and windy night, no lights were on but the door was open  8O so I just wandered in. Caledonia is eerily quiet - nobody is there except a few permanent staff. I happened to meet one of them in the Naafi (the only other guy in there) - a very strange creature  8O  8O  8O , a bearded 3-badge AB with an RO branch badge ("so you're not an OM then?" I asked, the answer was no, he refused to change). Chest full of medals, nearly done 22 years. Few and far between they are (3-badge AB RO's I mean). I was stunned to actually encounter someone who works at Caledonia, I'm sure you could go for a week there and not see anyone else. It was obviously built when the navy was much bigger than it is now. I find there is an atmosphere about the place that it's living on borrowed time, just imagine what Ganges is like now but without all the undergrowth, plus a few MoD plod on the guardhouse - that's what it feels like. So... Caledonia. Enormous and desolate save for a handful of staff like the bearded RO, probably boring to be drafted there.. but easy by the looks of things.</blockquote>