USS Fitzgerald collision in C7F

[FormerRecruitingGuru]

Until they schedule drills and ops/Intel briefs at the shittiest times possible this new watchbill won't do much for watchstanders.

 

[exNavyOffRec]

As somebody once pointed out to me...port and starboard rotations (6 on 6 off...or 12 on 12 off) is pretty damn circadian.

This won't solve anything without a closer look at manning to identify shortfalls in trained, qualified bodies onboard our smaller vessels.

This new mandate will piss off all types of surface nukes, you start 5 x 10 and then as you get senior the watchbill gets better, in order to get a decent schedule for all you are going to have to take senior guys and put them on junior watches. There was a time when on the Lincoln they wanted to even out the watchbill and it was not good, LCDR's were standing watches stood by LT's to CPO's, CPO's were standing watches normally stood by E-6/E-5's, and so on. It didn't last long.

 

[azguy]

This new mandate will piss off all types of surface nukes, you start 5 x 10 and then as you get senior the watchbill gets better, in order to get a decent schedule for all you are going to have to take senior guys and put them on junior watches. There was a time when on the Lincoln they wanted to even out the watchbill and it was not good, LCDR's were standing watches stood by LT's to CPO's, CPO's were standing watches normally stood by E-6/E-5's, and so on. It didn't last long.

Carriers don't fall under SURFOR and aren't subject to comply with this message.

 

[exNavyOffRec]

Carriers don't fall under SURFOR and aren't subject to comply with this message.

ah yes, nukes will be at peace, well as much as they can be.....

 

[IKE]

For those who don't know, the circadian rhythm watchbill isn't some random turd from the good-idea fairy. A very smart professor at NPS studied the old schedules and visited ships to test/observe the new method. She's been doing sleep/alertness/performance studies for a long time.

 

[Spekkio]

For those who don't know, the circadian rhythm watchbill isn't some random turd from the good-idea fairy. A very smart professor at NPS studied the old schedules and visited ships to test/observe the new method. She's been doing sleep/alertness/performance studies for a long time.

We've also done it in the sub force for the last 3 years. It's 1000x better than the 6 hour watch rotation.

It's really simple - the watch sections don't have to change to orbit around the day-walkers to be successful.

 

[Spekkio]

This new mandate will piss off all types of surface nukes, you start 5 x 10 and then as you get senior the watchbill gets better, in order to get a decent schedule for all you are going to have to take senior guys and put them on junior watches. There was a time when on the Lincoln they wanted to even out the watchbill and it was not good, LCDR's were standing watches stood by LT's to CPO's, CPO's were standing watches normally stood by E-6/E-5's, and so on. It didn't last long.

Waaa senior people can't act entitled.

 

[Renegade One]

A very smart professor at NPS studied the old schedules and visited ships to test/observe the new method. She's been doing sleep/alertness/performance studies for a long time.

Is her callsign "Charlie"? Could this become a plot thread in TOP GUN II? The screenplay almost writes itself...

 

[IKE]

Is her callsign "Charlie"? Could this become a plot thread in TOP GUN II? The screenplay almost writes itself...

Perhaps the opposite - she's married to a fellow NPS professor and retired Army Colonel.

 

[nittany03]

Oh, good grief. Looks like they re-broke Fitz loading her onto the heavy lift ship. Those people just can't catch a break . . .

 

[Griz882]

Oh, good grief. Looks like they re-broke Fitz loading her onto the heavy lift ship. Those people just can't catch a break . . .

A little to the left. A little to the left...screeeeccchhh...OK, you got it!

 

[ChuckMK23]

Oh, good grief. Looks like they re-broke Fitz loading her onto the heavy lift ship. Those people just can't catch a break . . .

 

[sevenhelmet]

Did nobody tell them it was a warship made of aluminum, built with safety factors low enough to make an aeronautical engineer blush?

 

[nittany03]

Did nobody tell them it was a warship made of aluminum, built with safety factors low enough to make an aeronautical engineer blush?

Uhh . . . she's a DDG, not a Little Crappy Ship. Burkes are all-steel.

 

[Flash]

Uhh . . . she's a DDG, not a Little Crappy Ship. Burkes are all-steel.

Hard learned lesson from the Belknap, Stark and the Falklands. But now we are back to aluminum with the LCS's!