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Halifax Tar said:The FLS folks work pretty hard to keep the ships supplied. I have never been on FLS but I have done a few deployments at sea and I know they work long hours dealing local customs and chandlers to keep your supply lines open and flowing.
CJOC on the other hand, I am convinced that they exist to employ GO/FOs and thier follow on supporting staff. From a logistics standpoint all they do is complicate things. I am not convinced the RCN requires CJOC to deploy. IMHO is another level of bureaucracy forced upon us because.
Agree; we would have been hosed without FLS sorting out parts and whatnot getting through customs and sorting out other issues for us. We eventually had a pretty good working relationship with our FLS and made a huge difference. To be honest CJOC was just another layer of BS to get through, and mostly they were an additional complication adding extra lead time onto getting things sorted. They also added another layer onto the telephone game (two actually; there was also MCC) and our technical briefings to NATO got messed up everytime they tried to give it the 'strategic CJOC perspective'.
Can't believe they can simultaneously require HLTA and not fund backfills; does someone else run the RAMP now other than ship's staff? I had contracted a number of locals to get some repairs done, and we were also getting a major mission critical repair done with a big TAV. It was like a really busy SWP, and there were about 50 people working long days everyday we were there to get that sorted, on top of the normal foreign port duty watch. Without a backfill, there were a number of us that never would have been able to take HLTA.
Anyway, off topic, sorry.