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There was one encounter I will never forget. Nice, sunny Halifax day when the harbour was steaming because the air temp was about -50. We were trying to get the boat ready to sail so there was a circus going on. The casing was covered with pallets of stores, dockyard mateys everywhere etc, etc...

Ooookay, they tell me I can't discuss op details on a public board and the moderators have expressed a firm desire that participants remain polite and not say things like "where did you get your dolphins, out of a CrackerJacks box" but you are making it real hard, Sub_guy. I hauled out my file...

There goes my blood pressure again.  The inquiry was not "paused half way through last month as the submarines skipper and two senior officers sought legal advice". The inquiry was finished, Ottawa rejected the findings and ordered the decision to run opened up re-investigated. So much for an...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1845&ncid=737&e=1&u=/cpress/20050218/ca_pr_on_na/submarine_inquiry Gee, this is a real surprise.

The paper can't be bothered to assign the story to a reporter that knows the difference between engines and boilers and ends up printing a piece that makes them look like complete morons to any sailor.  It's not like the Halifax dockyards have been doing low power firings to dry out and warm...

We have been through this already. When Mulroney wanted to buy  a dozen nukes, the USN had a coronary and several admirals flatly stated that the British would not be allowed to transfer the reactor tech to Canada. Reagan himself got involved and stated the transfer would be allowed. After that...

So he gets taken off watch and lashed into his bunk. BTDT. Possibly agravating a knee injury versus the risk  of a medevac flight in bad weather?

Gee, mdh, I'm not that bitter. Quite.  I have to admit, though, the stuff coming out this week about the Chicoutimi inquiry and the training problems is really starting to get me , ummm .....  annoyed. Deja vu all over again.

Your right. What it actually said was a "minor knee injury" and the sailor left the hospital using crutches the same day. Sorry.

A medevac flight for a sprained knee? A press release for a bunch of scrapes and bruises? This is a frigate in an Atlantic storm in February. Lots of the crew are bruised and banged up right now and more than a few are dehydrated from seasickness. Goes with the job. Does the army issue press...

Well, the infighting over the Chicoutimi is starting to get nasty and public. Tuesday ADM Maclean rejects the inquiry report as "inadequate" and orders the Captains decisions re-investigated. So much for an independent inquiry. You think maybe Ottawa didn't like the conclusions? Today, the...

This is a joke, right?

60 injuries, 24 serious, 1 death.

Where to start? 1 in 4 home port duty watches, sailing with 40% unqualified crew, getting towed out to anchor in Bedford basin to finish repairs because the dockie unions were playing games, every chief in the navy being offered career extensions so I might make PO1 before I retired, getting 9...

http://www.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=21183 The rock she hit wasn't charted.

The figures are low balled on the initial contract because no one really knows how much work will be needed untill you get the ship opened up. In the case of the AOR's, the shipyard probably charged 10 % extra for cleanup and disposal of the cockroaches.

I had a well lubricated USN type explain to me that his ribbons were his product bar code. People in the know didn't need to see his records, just looking at his ribbons told them where he'd been and what he'd done.

Some things never change. I talked to some WWII vets whose biggest regrets were they weren't in Slackers to help burn the city down in the VE day riots.

RIP, bubblehead. One report says the boat rammed a seamount at 35 knots. In that area it is a good possibility the seamount wasn't charted. As harsh as it sounds, they were lucky.

Man, I'm sorry I missed that show. I am going to have to shell out for the transcript. Jay was the best skipper the sub squadron had in the 80's. Big boy. Never raised his voice, never said much at all, had a hooded eye glare that could cut through armour plate. He was infamous in the Royal Navy...