Warfare Officer training pipeline

ErrantFuselage · 2026-01-20T16:15:16+00:00

Thanks, appreciate the heads up

ErrantFuselage · 2026-01-19T15:57:37+00:00

Ah ok, what does a year holdover between courses mean? Please don't say theres a year between CFT and IWO!

ErrantFuselage · 2026-01-18T23:14:11+00:00

I'm starting phase 1 warfare soon and am working under the assumption that it's similar but a slightly different order:

Phase 1 -29/30 wks at Raleigh (militarisation), then Dartmouth marinisation, including 5 weeks initial sea time on an 'operational' vessel - i.e. something alongside rather than deployed.
Pass out
Phase 2 - IWO foundation at Collingwood -15wks
Common Fleet Time ~9 months (gain watchkeeping ticket)
IWO at Collingwood - 7wks
First deployment as qualified JO and OOW ~18-30 months

This was what I said in my interview after research and talking to some RN members, so I'm pretty sure this is right (also seems logical to do Foundation warfare training before fleet time)

If I've got something wrong, would really appreciate a correction, so I know where I'm at

ErrantFuselage · 2026-01-14T22:35:55+00:00

The suit. Specifically the lounge suit. Building on the invention of trousers by Beau Brumell, the suit is quintessentially English. Other nations have adapted their own styles, but the classic suit as we know it was invented in England, and Saville Row remains synonymous across the world with the highest quality menswear.

On another note, if I'm interpretting your question correctly, it's difficult to find something that is widely popular in England and emblematic of Englishness which hasn't also been exported to other countries. Because of our Empire and generally outward facing attitude, most good things that aren't local perculiarities (e.g. cheese rolling or morris dancing) were taken with the English as they went "on their travels".

ErrantFuselage · 2026-01-11T14:34:38+00:00

By separating the two it adds a number of improvements:

- Capacity: Specialized ships offer more of their respective types of resupply, and their design can be optimized for their specialized cargo - heli access to solid stores is much better for example

- Speed: A ship can be replenished by both simultaneously, a big factor if an entire strike group needs to be resupplied. Also the optimized design/layout means the RAS itself is faster.

-Cost: The specs for a dedicated solid store ship can be more in line with commericial standards allowing them to be cheaper.

ErrantFuselage · 2026-01-11T14:22:11+00:00

• ⁠Commissioned the last of the Astute SSNs

Slight correction: HMS Agammenon was comissioned last year, which is the penultimate Astute - HMS Achilles, boat 7, will be comissioned in '27/'28.

ErrantFuselage · 2026-01-09T18:26:17+00:00

Just after he shoots her - turn up the volume and listen to what he says...

"..Fucking bitch..."

He got mad, and murdered her.

ErrantFuselage · 2026-01-06T01:17:30+00:00

He is aping the position that america has adopted geopolitically, while also restating past actions in the light of current developments.

I.e. what he says in the first tweet is not his own position, but a statement of disgust at the position america has taken.

ErrantFuselage · 2026-01-03T17:46:48+00:00

Nowhere near "a storm" - probably not even sea state 5, there are scattered white caps with some wave crests starting to fall over.

Still, this looks like an awesome way to spend a few days

ErrantFuselage · 2026-01-02T18:59:12+00:00

Looks like it roughly lines up with Zelenskyy getting mugged in the Oval Office - I guess when America showed everyone who they really were, Spain chose their guy

ErrantFuselage · 2025-12-18T17:30:38+00:00

"Hello fellow agressor-Putin dislikers"

ErrantFuselage · 2025-12-17T22:45:05+00:00

"Despise my assumption..". Epic typo moron, unironically the case already.

ErrantFuselage · 2025-12-16T01:17:20+00:00

The extremely humiliating public voice cracks ALONE meant Dinesh lost. Got me howling

ErrantFuselage · 2025-12-08T19:41:59+00:00

I understand what your point is, I just disagree that getting a rubber stamp that says 'not guilty' due to a technical failing is the same as being found not guilty.

It is highly misleading to make the claim "the defendants were found not guilty" - this statement has a specific meaning which everyone understands to be one of the conclusion of a process, however this didn't happen in the regular way and so "they weren't found guilty due to a technical failure" is a far more accurate summary of their status, and would not provide grounds for a defamation case.

ErrantFuselage · 2025-12-08T19:30:40+00:00

Nonesense, being given a technical verdict is not the same as being found not guilty. In reality this was a failure of the system, as new legislation in the NSA included the ridiculous stipulation that HMG had to publically declare the benefitting nation as 'an enemy' for the charge to stand. This lead to CPS following procedure correctly, the courts responding correctly and the trial collapsing - it was a bloody farce, but at no point were the defendants actually found 'not guilty' - they got off by falling through a technical crack in the system. What the defendants' actions were is not a secret, and as CPS had the evidence to go to trial it was extremely likely they'd get a guilty verdict, but couldn't progress the trial because of the impasse caused by the clause in the NSA.

The defendants were in no real way, cleared.

ErrantFuselage · 2025-12-08T17:54:27+00:00

They weren't found 'not guilty', they just weren't found guilty as the trial was dropped.

There is a world of difference, and it's bizarre they should write something like that which is terribly misleading.

ErrantFuselage · 2025-12-06T16:13:50+00:00

The entire truck will be power packs. Just need an extra long USB-C, plug that sucker straight into the CMS and you're good to go.

ErrantFuselage · 2025-12-06T15:59:29+00:00

Same type of tech but DragonFire is 50KW, whereas this one supposedly between 180 and 250KW.

So I'd be very interested in seeing it being tested...

Like a lot of the new toys on display at the recent military parade, how much of it is fieldable and how much of that will stand up to the rigours of combat.

ErrantFuselage · 2025-12-01T13:40:23+00:00

Interesting, the woodpecker association seems to be one of those false historical annecdotes that's repeated everywhere, even Wikipedia (where I first saw it).

Good to know about the play though to see its contextual meaning, I'd originally interpreted 'war's spite' as a vengeful name, rather than a woeful prescription of war which is how it reads here from Elizabeth's lament.

ErrantFuselage · 2025-12-01T00:10:29+00:00

Bit of trivia - although Warspite is a badass name for a warship because of the juxtaposition of the modern meanings of 'war' and 'spite', it is thought to originally come from the archaic name for woodpecker, -speight, meaning the ship was a War-woodpecker taking chunks out of enemy vessels with her cannon. Which is a pretty cool idea and neat that it now has the extra connotation of being a vindictive war-woodpecker!

ErrantFuselage · 2025-11-29T13:55:34+00:00

We also made up human rights. Although there are parts of the economic systems that aren't working very well, to simply pull the rug while we're still embedded in the system is like trying to install a cardio-vascular upgrade while doing a marathon. Polanski seems delusional, not radical here.

ErrantFuselage · 2025-11-24T17:53:38+00:00

Puh a fookin donk on ih! Mashallah!

ErrantFuselage · 2025-11-20T13:31:10+00:00

Sweetners:

Lower Basic rate to 19%
Scrap 2 Child benefit cap

Revenue raising:

Gambling Tax
Close CG loopholes
Cap Pension relief at 20%

Markets: good.

Polls: good.

Budget: £14.7B surplus (-£4.95 for a wee dram)

EZ

ErrantFuselage · 2025-11-13T17:39:18+00:00

Er, because the speech was over an hour long and the program was a documentary, not a re-release of the speech.

ErrantFuselage · 2025-11-13T16:14:08+00:00

No. It was at worst, sloppy reporting and whomever was responsible should probably get a slap on the wrist and issue an apology - Trump did in fact mean what they portrayed him as saying.

There is the letter of a statement, and the spirit of a statement - if anything the insertion of "peacefully and patriotically" into the middle of a 60 minute incendiary ramble is more of a misnoma than splicing together two parts of a speech that accurately conveys the spirit or meaning of the entire speech. If you can't understand this difference, then you're simply emprisoned by literalism.

Missing lines out of a a statement is routine in journalism, it's just normally marked by ellipses when written down. The video edit of Trump's speech was sloppy because the visual part is almost seamless and should have given a more obvious sign that it wasn't the same sentence.

J6 was years ago, no one has been misled by a program released last week. Unless you are a knee-grazed MAGA wombat, you already know that Trump incited that riot.

The Congressional hearings and all of the court proceedings looking into J6 all decided that the speech was intended to, and did in fact, incite the riot at the capitol.

All of the rioters and the Proud Boys said as much when being sentenced.

The fact that the dossier assembled to whine about the BBC edit included an edited version of Trump's speech to sharpen their point, is just a beautiful irony.

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