Submariner sent home as not fit for duty.

[oldsoak]

I think you'll find that it's anti-personnel mines that go bang when you release the button. Just watch any film

I always get them and nuclear missiles confused.

 

[CptDanjou]

What was the old saying in the AAC. 1 hour for each bottle to throttle?

24hrs bottle to throttle for pilots I was told, completely ignored by many I know.

 

[Harry Skinters]

At some point in time the public will realise that it takes a certain kind of person to work on a submarine, and if you really want a nuclear deterrent you have to put up with certain shenanigans, a bit of charlie, and a good night on the pop.

Fair point.
If they were more forward thinking they would issue 1x shenanigans 1x eightball sniffing for use of.

 

[Harry Skinters]

 

[SONAR-BENDER]

Sunrise to sunset? In a submarine? Did it have Velux windows or something?

Best bet is to acknowledge the sun has just set somewhere or other and crack on.

Ahem - at 'real' sunset (outside, on the surface) the interior lights throughout the boat go to red. At 'real' dawn, the interior lights go back to white. Hence if you wake up and look out of your bunk you can tell if it is 'day' or 'night' - not that it matters a jot with 6 on/6 off!

Going to PD the lights go to black. Don't ask!

Simples!

 

[Dunservin]

...I like the story of HMS Sutherland getting to within 600 yds of a Dutch trawler because the officer of the watch had drawn the bridge curtains...

To clarify, the curtains were around the illuminated chart table on the bridge, not obscuring the bridge windows. This is SOP to avoid ruining the night vision of everyone on the bridge.

 

[GreyArea]

To clarify, the curtains were around the illuminated chart table on the bridge, not obscuring the bridge windows. This is SOP to avoid ruining the night vision of everyone on the bridge.

Yes, but were they from John Lewis?

 

[Tomasz Krachanaker]

Bomber queens enjoying a rare run ashore......
Journo scumbags, leave the lads alone.

More correctly - Four knot fudge packers.

 

[Moderator]

To clarify, the curtains were around the illuminated chart table on the bridge, not obscuring the bridge windows. This is SOP to avoid ruining the night vision of everyone on the bridge.

Wherever the curtain/s were, the court martial board clearly believed that:

• the curtain/s obscured the bridge windows from the officer of the watch as she sat behind them.
• the officer of the watch had little to zero situational awareness as she sat behind the curtain/s she had drawn.
• she knew that hiding herself away behind the curtains was wrong by virtue of:

Lt Stanley even told a surprised colleague on the ship's bridge that if anyone asked 'she wasn't behind the curtain'.

and

Lieutenant Stanley, who admitted a charge of 'negligently hazarding a ship', told the court martial: 'It was wrong and foolish of me to put the ship in that situation* I let myself and the ship's company down.

resulting in

Sentencing her, Assistant Judge Advocate Alan Large, said: 'You shut yourself away at the back of the bridge. You shut the blackout curtain behind you and carried on with your planning.

'The most important thing is you weren't able to keep a visual look out - your bridge team had to prompt you about fishing vessels.'

He ordered Lt Stanley to pay a fine of £4,000 and told her she would also be severely reprimanded.

Drawing the curtain/s cost her £4k, earned her a ‘severe reprimand’ and possibly as a brucie bonus, a permanently stalled career. Mind you, you’d wonder why the navigating officer and bridge lookouts (whatever they are called) allowed the ship to get so close to another vessel without alerting the O.O.W. Stitch up perhaps?

 

[ExREME.TECH]

Wherever the curtain/s were, the court martial board clearly believed that:

• the curtain/s obscured the bridge windows from the officer of the watch as she sat behind them.
• the officer of the watch had little to zero situational awareness as she sat behind the curtain/s she had drawn.
• she knew that hiding herself away behind the curtains was wrong by virtue of:

and

resulting in


Drawing the curtain/s cost her £4k, earned her a ‘severe reprimand’ and possibly as a brucie bonus, a permanently stalled career. Mind you, you’d wonder why the navigating officer and bridge lookouts (whatever they are called) allowed the ship to get so close to another vessel without alerting the O.O.W. Stitch up perhaps?

She was having a kip, probably pissed?

 

[par avion]

Does the Judge Advocate have any military background like ALS, or are they just civy judges working for military courts?

 

[Grownup_Rafbrat]

She was having a kip, probably pissed?

Possibly not the first time, which might explain why no one on the bridge covered for her.

 

[Moderator]

Does the Judge Advocate have any military background like ALS, or are they just civy judges working for military courts?

The Judge Advocate General is Head of the Service Justice System. There is also a Vice-Judge Advocate General and several Assistant Judge Advocate Generals all of whom are civilians.

What do effing civvies know?

 

[Poppy]

Does the Judge Advocate have any military background like ALS, or are they just civy judges working for military courts?

judiciary.uk/about-the-judiciary/who-are-the-judiciary/judicial-roles/judges/judge-advocate-general/

 

[762baynet]

Finding a longboat on a sub is going to be a bit of an ask.

If they had SBS on board they could have used a Folbot.... That'd do it.

 

[par avion]

The Judge Advocate General is Head of the Service Justice System. There is also a Vice-Judge Advocate General and several Assistant Judge Advocate Generals all of whom are civilians.

What do effing civvies know?

So a civvy then. I wonder what miltary training is provided?

"Military knowledge and experience is not required and training will be provided as necessary, dependant on the successful candidates".

 

[Cregg Bristle]

If they had SBS on board they could have used a Folbot.... That'd do it.

Ahem....Klepper.

 

[par avion]

Ahem....Klepper.

I beg your pardon!

 

[par avion]

Ahem....Klepper.

Folbots were good enough for Blondie Hasler and Bill Sparks. They didn't need no German canoes!

 

[762baynet]

Folbots were good enough for Blondie Hasler and Bill Sparks. They didn't need no German canoes!

Exactly!