Right Shippers

Here are the correct answers:-

1. FOST - Flag Officer Sea Training
2. FOD - Is Foreign Object Debris
3. Swinging the Lead - In this context - is just Giving a Lame Excuse for something.
4.DTS - has two meanings 1. The Dartmouth Training Squadron or 2. in a social setting a Dinner Time Sesh !
5. WAFU - Stands for Wet and F**king Useless - A derogatory term for a Naval Aviator
6. RAS - Is Replenishment at sea - various methods can be employed.
7. WINGS - Is the Senior Aviator in Charge of all Air Operations - on a Carrier he indeed normally carries the rank of Commander
8. CHIEF - Other than a Chief Petty Officer is the slang name give to the MEO, the senior enginering officer on a ship.
9. BABIES HEADS - Normally the name given to tinn STeak and Kidney Puddings normall found in Ration Packs (might I add they were blood delicious)

There you are - keep up all the good answers and get you shipmates to join in.

Cheers



Pat

Try using the best computer ever designed the old grey cells - if you done know the anser result to logic - rule out the you know its the wrong answer, failing that use the correct book.

Pat, use ChatGPT and you will get better results without ads and questionable content😁

My experience at using the Internet is that if your not very careful you are likely to click on a link and are more likely to get p * r n as the answer - seldom does it give the correct answer as the first item in a search engine !!!!

Early in my career a lecturer taught me, an intelligent man does not have all the answers but what makes him intelligent is knowing where to find the answers. From this he continued - Don’t clutter your brain with useless details, just the salient points leaving the rest free to think.
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I don't get on the forum every day but I do find your QotD posts quite interesting. Do I need to know what colour a particular bhoy is, or how fast a certain boat can go? No I dont, but I do like to learn the odd fact that I otherwise wouldn't have!
No harm, no foul, if other folk dont want to read them that's fine, skip em!
But I'm sure you know that plenty do!
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Jolly good stab at it Nick - let’s see if anyone does any better

Flag officer Sea Training.
Foreign Object damage/debris.
Taking a sounding or pretending to be sick.
DTS, not sure of the initials but it is to help re integrate folk back in to civvies St.
CAB is a helicopter.
WAFU is an Airy Fairy
RAS Replishment At Sea
Wings is Commander Air on a carrier
Chief, Head of engineering dept.
Individual steak and kidney puddings..

What is wrong with good old Fashioned Books - on of the best sources of information one warships is not availble online but if you get chance look at Janes Fighting Ships.

There is nothing wrong with the Internet if used correctly - the is so much s h one t on there sometimes it is difficult even for an hardened surfer to tell the difference.

The internet should never be a substitute for personal knowledge / memory.

Point noted about other Navies but lets face it the Royal Navy was once the biggest and best Navy in the world, nowaday, sadly, it may not be the biggest but its still the best.

Don't be discouraged, keep it up, Pat.

As I've said many times, active and participatory people like you are an asset and an asset to the forums.

Perhaps, if you can and want, you could branch out into other naval topics.
The historical scope could also be broadened.
I imagine that the Spanish, Dutch, French, New Zealanders, Canadians, Americans (and all the other nations with great naval traditions, both military and civilian, commercial, and sporting) couldn't possibly know such specific details about the British Navy.
Probably not even the British know such in-depth details.

But above all, if you deny the possibility of using the web, you effectively exclude almost everyone.
I, for example, don't deny the possibility of doing research on the internet (once memory and searching one's own books or magazines have yielded no results) to answer my questions.
I allow it. Let's say I allow it "virtually," because how could I find out who knows the topic and who doesn't but just saw it online a few minutes earlier? I'm not even interested in doing that, actually. The goal is participation in a broad topic of common interest, not a competition or a display of knowledge. If a forum member says they saw it in a documentary, I'm not going to investigate whether it's true or not.
In any case, I think it's a great stimulus, and the internet doesn't always provide a ready answer.

This isn't a criticism at all, just small suggestions.
I like trying to answer questions asked by human users (even if you've only attempted this so far) rather than AI, and if I can't, I like reading others' answers or attempts at answers. I'll participate by broadening, expanding and branching out from the main topic if someone doesn't mind.