sparkerbuntingnowcis said:We're not being drafted, we are just swapping platforms. So we take our ship's name to our new ship, and vice versa. This is so that ships can stay deployed longer. Another reason stated was that Jack doesn't like long deployments. However, when they stop LSSB in October/November ask Jack if he wants to deploy or remain alongside in Pompey. With my LSA at £600 ish a month I think I would like to go away, buts that my personnal preference.
sparkerbuntingnowcis said:No we are deploying down south on our ship then in 5 months we all come back to the UK to join the ship that our reliefs have just left. We keep our ships name on our new platform, until they bring our ship back then its all change again.
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pondwater said:Is the head line in this months (August) navy news. It goes onto say that entire crews will be swapped while on deployment over seas.
I'm not in the navy yet. But isn't saying hello/goodbye all part of the deployment.... any thoughts?
Black dog for a white monkey anyone?
creakin said:pondwater said:Is the head line in this months (August) navy news. It goes onto say that entire crews will be swapped while on deployment over seas.
I'm not in the navy yet. But isn't saying hello/goodbye all part of the deployment.... any thoughts?
Black dog for a white monkey anyone?
I can understand it when the ships company transfer from one ship going into refit onto the same class of ship coming out of refit yet the ships keep their own identity. But taking the ships name as well would be very confusing - surely the pennant numbers would have to change also. What if the class of ships are different (batch 1/2/3 etc)- chaos would ensue imho. Janes fighting ships would need constant changes? :?
and what if your pit prior to transfer was a good one (ie in a quiet part of a gulch and not in the mess square) and some cnut beat you to it on the new ship...argh :roll:
creakin said:pondwater said:Is the head line in this months (August) navy news. It goes onto say that entire crews will be swapped while on deployment over seas.
I'm not in the navy yet. But isn't saying hello/goodbye all part of the deployment.... any thoughts?
Black dog for a white monkey anyone?
I can understand it when the ships company transfer from one ship going into refit onto the same class of ship coming out of refit yet the ships keep their own identity. But taking the ships name as well would be very confusing - surely the pennant numbers would have to change also. What if the class of ships are different (batch 1/2/3 etc)- chaos would ensue imho. Janes fighting ships would need constant changes? :?
and what if your pit prior to transfer was a good one (ie in a quiet part of a gulch and not in the mess square) and some cnut beat you to it on the new ship...argh :roll: