Not Just the US Navy
HMS Trenchant
Mason sends us an odd article from Great Briton, where the CO of the Nuclear Fast Attack Submarine HMS Trenchant has been relieved of command. His sin? Music.
Submarine Commander relieved of duty for DJ set in dock
Commanding Officer HMS Trenchant Known by the sailors onboard as “the old man” is facing disciplinary actions after videos emerged showing his crew enjoying some music while their submarine was docked alongside.
The crew have thought to have been at sea for many months, returned to a very different UK than they left. With the latest Covid restrictions the crew were faced with isolation when returning home to port. A much needed morale boost came in the form of a DJ set at port side. But this has been one step to far for Senior Navy officials.
This comes just weeks after Brett Crozier was dismissed from USS Theodore Roosevelt for raising concerns about his crews welfare. Forces Compare contacted the Beastie boys for comment who added “You gotta fight for your right to party” Alfie Usher Added “i look forward to the day morale is not a crime”
MOD have been contacted for comment.
Ministry of Defense. The only crime being committed here is the shitty music the DJs are playing. Read the article and listen for yourself here: Forces Compare
Thanks Mason.
Category: "The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves", Guest Link, Navy
YGTBSM! At first I thought it was Babylon Bee/Onion/Duffel Blog/satire.
Unfortunately, it ain’t.
What did you expect? This is the same uberwoke UK, where guns are banned and you can go to jail for “misgendering” dudes who think they’re ladies.
I hope – I really hope – that HM the Queen will step in and restore some sanity. This is, after all, HER Navy.
So let me get this straight. Submarine comes home after months and months submerged. Sub crew is ordered to stay confined to the boat because quarantine. They can’t go home, see families, etc. Sub crew has likely seen the numbers and noticed that despite the doom&gloom predictions, dogs and cats are not, in fact, living together. The crew almost certainly think this is bullshit. The Captain orders a DJ set to allow his crew something to enjoy, however trivial. The crew evidently appreciates the bossman’s efforts to alleviate their misery.
The Powers-That-Be, who are living in vastly greater comfort than the dudes on the submarine, shitcan him for it and order the crew to resume misery and like it.
Did I miss anything?
Right there with ya, TOW. Finding some small bit of joy in their isolation was apparently a step too far.
This looks like a case of “the floggings will continue until morale improves.”
Like ChipNASA pointed out below, the Royal Navy appears to have taken that Churchill quote about rum, sodomy, and the lash, and decided they needed to eliminate one of the three. Budget cuts, maybe?
“…the sh^tty music…” ^WORD!^ I know I’m an old codger, but still. Have all the great British Rock Bands been superseded by this? I just had to ask. Maybe the Skipper shoulda played some of this…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmOZFAYeurY
or maybe this…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDfAdHBtK_Q
This is better.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1CWfgxtdbK0
Apparently no Rum but plenty Sodomy & the Lash.
The sailors expressed a completely understandable preference for the the former, and the admiralty forced the latter on them instead. Wow, it sounds even worse now that I’m reading it out loud!
Back in the pre-Covid army, every time my BN shot gunnery, I had the commo guys blast classic/hard rock over the speakers all through the bullpen, ammo point, etc. It’s a proven fact that listening to a little Iron Maiden before your run will add ten points to the final score! I guess I didn’t get fired because: 1) we played good music; and, 2) I’m not British…
When I was on the M60A3/M1 NETT Team
(those are Army tanks for any of you land lubber challenged individuals ;)), we got permission from our commander and had a jack of all trades team member wire our CVC’s & tank internal commo to a cd player. Played the below tune & others when on “shoot & scoots). When your mike was keyed, it cut out the tunes, but when released, the jamming began.
We used it with discretion, but as Prior Service mentioned, it jack up the troops resulting in overall better scores & shorter engagement times.
For your listening pleasure, I present one of the most popular tunes at the time………………
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUsFWO08CO0
(sorry Mick, AW1Ed, and others) (grin)
We both hate you.
LMAO
I should of put a disclaimer on there, AW1Ed.
My work is done here. (grin)
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!
😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
Call Blimey love a duck, Yea, that is shitty music they were playing. I remember inside the pier 4 geedunk stand, there was a jukebox with a screen mounted on top and for .50 Cents, I watched Little Eva dressed up in an Arab outfit singing Locomotion. I guess they didn’t catch on and how long did it take to have mtv on TV. Bring back Earl Lewis and the Channels, the Cleftones, Valentines, Native Boys, Belmonts, Jesters, Schoolboys, Students, Heartbeats, Lee Andrews, Etc
I could understand flogging for the music choice, but relief? Way too far.
It isn’t Captain “Lucky Jack” Aubrey’s Navy anymore. No extra rations of grog.
They just sucked the joy out of everything, didn’t they?
Shoulda played some local tunes:
Why are you encouraging war crimes against our allies?
Speaking of music and morale, do surface ships still have unrep breakaway songs? That very brief respite from everyday drudgery was always good for morale.
Couldn’t tell you. I was in the helo doing the VERTREP part.
Ah, the Ministry of Doom On You strikes again!
Some idiots had a house party the other night, so crowded that they were all nearly glued to each other. The body heat alone in that small living room could likely have cooked a large turkey. Now The Official Officials are Officially Upset about it, and plan to Do Something. They just haven’t decided what they’re going to do. Da Horror!
It’s Doom on All of Us!!!
I’ve seen clips of the video.
Fucking idiots.
Also means GFU in Vietnamese.
The Sun’s hyperbolic article on the festivities:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11467132/royal-navy-boozy-rave-coronavirus-lockdown/
Here it is. They didn’t like the way it LOOKED. Not that there was anything wrong. Saying this looked like a rave or an Ibiza spring break are hyperbolic to say the least. I’ve been to more lively funerals.
The only people “jamming” in any of the vids I saw were the DJs. The Navy personnel were all standing around, sitting eating, or otherwise acting subdued. And keeping a pretty good distance from each other, for what that is worth given their forced proximity aboard the sub.
“Looked” bad? No, looked like a very well behaved bunch from here.
A ship’s crew having a party outdoors after months of being cooped up in their submarine. Unheard of! And drinking!
Highly structured organizations like the military tend to attract people who like to zealously enforce rules, regulations, and their own personal likes and dislikes camouflaged as ‘proper behavior’. We used to call them “lifers”, and it was not a compliment.
Culture Club.
Gets them every time.
Navy’s are the same the world over….
Happiness is secured until morale improves. 🙄
Bet they restart the quarantine clock, too.
No doubt. Anything they can do to suck the joy out of the crew.
One day, while doing an All Hands stores load, we were lined up loading boxes, and the line happened to snake past the Wardroom. We were a tight crew, and we had several guys who were keeping everybody entertained and working hard moving the boxes. The Wardroom door suddenly opened, and a Junior Officer stuck his head out, yelling “Knock off the grabass out here”. The line paused for a moment, and one of the entertainers called out “Alright! You guys heard the man! Levity is secured until morale improves”. The whole crew laughed louder than before, the line started back up, and the JO slunk back into the Wardroom.
I always wondered where that asshole ended up. Apparently, he went to the Brits.
Stores loads were always interesting. Not necessarily fun, but interesting–especially after a 60-70 day op.
Saw one guy (nicknamed Meat) rip a head of fresh lettuce out of a box as he passed it down the escape trunk and eat it like an oversized apple, still passing boxes down with his free hand.
Nothing like fresh food after a Patrol. 😂
Interestingly, there seemed to be a strange “black hole” effect when the Number 10 cans of mixed nuts went past the SONAR shack on their way to storage. We never did find those missing cans. (In an aside that has absolutely no bearing on the missing chow, it takes a bunch of ziplock sandwich bags to split up a No.10 can full of nuts… preparation is key😜)
Frigging in the Rigging by The Sex pistols.