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A New Toy for the Navy
Posted: 28 Jan 2009, 18:29
by Nigel H-J
Wonder whether Dave would have liked this when he was in :think:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hamp ... 852111.stm
Regards
Nigel
Re: A New Toy for the Navy
Posted: 28 Jan 2009, 18:33
by Techy111
A Tad small for our David i reckon.... :think:
Tony
Re: A New Toy for the Navy
Posted: 28 Jan 2009, 20:55
by TSR2
And not enough antena for him to play with ;0)
Re: A New Toy for the Navy
Posted: 28 Jan 2009, 21:05
by DaveB
Was that the officers mess they were talking in :o
Couldn't do with the MCO being in the Ops Room. The Ops Room staff would be able to hear what inappropriate names we call them
I have to say, I prefer the last HMS Daring but there's no doubting the new ships technoligical advances. It's all very 'Star Wars' compared to my day.
ATB
DaveB :tab:
Re: A New Toy for the Navy
Posted: 28 Jan 2009, 21:12
by SkippyBing
Dave, with the advent of modern technology I think they've put the MCO in the OPS room so they can see when the OM(C)s have finished dusting the overheads!
Re: A New Toy for the Navy
Posted: 28 Jan 2009, 21:13
by ChrisHunt
54 heads? I thought they said they had 190 personnel on board? That ops room looks like it belongs to Destroyer Command X rather than an actual ship. BTW I'm pretty sure Destroyer Command X doesn't exist, but I wish it did!
Regards,
Chris
Re: A New Toy for the Navy
Posted: 28 Jan 2009, 23:32
by Seaking
Yea I watched it, a mass of technology for sure, their ratings mess was something else, how times have changed since my day.
Plug points for charging cell phones, laptops, overheard private lockers lol, they have it made nowadays....hey I'll sign back on lol.
Re: A New Toy for the Navy
Posted: 29 Jan 2009, 00:30
by DaveB
Skip.. I have no idea what an OM(C) is but I doubt it would have happened in Mountbattens day (I know it didn't!)
I ended my time as a 3-badge killick like the chap in the film but I was nowhere near as polite
54 heads must have been an error mate. I don't think even AR IV had that many.. unless of course the new Daring is a floating urinal ;-)
ATB
DaveB :tab:
Re: A New Toy for the Navy
Posted: 29 Jan 2009, 12:29
by Techy111
Did you hear about this sad event the other day...?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -eBay.html
Tony
Re: A New Toy for the Navy
Posted: 29 Jan 2009, 12:56
by SkippyBing
I have no idea what an OM(C)
Monkeys who work in the MCO (think it stands for Operator Mechanic (Comms)), I'm fairly sure it's changed again but it was OM(C) when I did my task book so I can't be bothered learning the new name.
I know there's a lot of spare space on the T-45, that's what happens when you want to put such a heavy radar so high up, but 54 heads sounds a bit superfluous unless you plan on a third of the ship being in there at a time. I'm guessing a reporter asked a stupid question and got a made up answer, not that I'd ever do something like that....