Mar Tech Trade NAVGEN
- Thread starter Halifax Tar
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The RN one was a lot more relevant; we had our trades, watchkeeping structure and department structured identical to what they did, and they had already done basically MARTECH, with getting rid of HTs, then bringing them back. They told us this before we did it, and recommended we just go to what we are doing in the future (with common training up to 3s, then splitting off to sub ocs)
Instead of learning the lesson from them, we did exactly what they recommended we not do and will be something like 15 years before we actually go to their recommendation, which was also our recommeded COA back in 2014 or whatever.
The worst part is it wasn't even for any good reason other than 'fuck the stoker mafia' (which I was told was a verbatim quote).
Someone probably was grinding an axe for 25+ years from when they did something stupid as a subbie and got corrected by the cert 3 on watch or something, and has basically screwed the RCN for a generation.
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Me neither, but that seemed to be the thing people latched onto for kiling stewards, and missed that the stuff they actually do means frees up already distressed trades.
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Every MOSID review has DPGR recommendations. Those that ignore them generally end up in distress.
Someone probably was grinding an axe for 25+ years from when they did something stupid as a subbie and got corrected by the cert 3 on watch or something, and has basically screwed the RCN for a generation.
Cough.......Ron Lloyd.....cough.
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But we had to wait a few cycles for a number of people to retire after that as well, even after it was obvious that we went with what was supposed to be the 'terrible COA for reference' COA that is supposed to show the cons and make the recommendation look even better.
It's cool though, they implemented big things like the moustache pin, spending millions on the Oriole because sail boats that don't meet SOLAS are cool, and not following reconstitution orders at all.
There is still a huge amount of work to get the HT sub-occ back, and most legacy HTs are retiring so we won't have the internal expertise to reform the trade either, so it's a steaming pile of foot dragging.
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Has anyone ever seen Ron in the same place as Dan Ackroyd?
The likeness is uncanny. Wonder if they have the same taste in white bread, toasted, dry, with nothin' on it.
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As Director Naval Requirements, he announced that during his tenure steel would be cut for the Halifax replacement.
He retired as CRCN with no steel cut to replace the Halifax class.
