Comments by "John Allen" (@johnallen7807) on "Fighting emergencies at sea. What is FOST?" video.

Good to see but the "Elephant in the room" is that we only built half the numbers of escorts needed for the carrier group so we rely on foreign ships to fill the gap.
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@cymro8902 Agreed but the main reason, as I said, is we did not build the escorts needed.
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@callumpettitt8192 You miss the point, cross training is fine but would they fight immediately if needed without long delays for political permission? As the Falklands should have taught us speed of response and adequate resources are needed to win a war.
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@callumpettitt8192 You miss the point, cross training is fine but would they fight immediately if needed without long delays for political permission? As the Falklands should have taught us speed of response and adequate resources are needed to win a war.
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@cymro8902 Totally correct but I believe it won't even save that due to problems with max speed!
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@peterlloyd8313 No probs, he just gave the NHS another £6billion to waste on managers and "box tickers"!I know the Army reject 9 out of 10 as not up to standard, suspect the RN will be the same esp if they have Capita doing the recruiting.
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