34 NAVY NEWS, JULY 2010 News and information for serving personnel


FIRST, in the interest of fair and open reporting, let us here at Navy News confess to a certain bias against the Logistician (Catering Services (Preparation)) title and others of similar ilk. You


may perhaps have noticed... But it seems we were not the only ones not entirely taken with the new branch names. And the Navy’s senior officers


have been listening carefully to the opinions of the men and women who live with and work with the new titles.


Picture: Dave Sherfield again and again...


IN THE past decade the world has been struck by, or suffered, 3,852 disasters. They’ve claimed the lives of three quarters of a million people. Well, that’s cheered you up. But it’s also the reason why


delivering humanitarian aid is at the heart of what the RN does – Haiti, Sri Lanka, and a cluster of Caribbean islands have all benefitted from relief provided by British sailors and marines. And it’s why junior sailors from HMS Raleigh are now being introduced to disaster relief for three days each month. For several years, trainee chefs,


stewards, writers and supply chain folk (hurrah, the old names are back! – Ed) have headed to the Army camp at Penhale, between Perranporth and Newquay,


for


a weekend of basic leadership training.


With that closing, another


suitable site for leadership training was sought. Tregantle Fort, one of numerous Victorian fortifications ringing Devonport dockyard on both sides of the Tamar, was chosen.


The location and scale of the old


fort, barely two miles from Raleigh, means that not only trainees from the logistics school face leadership and teamwork tasks, but also submariners and seaman specialists undergoing training at the Torpoint establishment. And so once a month, 60 or so


sailors will march out of Raleigh on a Friday afternoon to spend the weekend at Tregantle. “Rather than ‘lift and shift’ what


we did at Penhale, we decided to create something new, more realistic. Give it a scenario and the sailors realise why they are doing this,” explained Lt Cdr Jo Wall from the logistics school. “There’ll be a really diverse range of people coming through – on the first weekend we had a 62-year-old RFA sailor here.” As you’d expect from a Victorian


fort, accommodation is spartan (female sailors at least don’t have to head outside to reach the heads/showers, unlike their male counterparts), but then the trainees aren’t here to relax. The three-day exercise,


Maritime Teamwork, is expected to test low-level leadership skills and sailors’ ability to work together outside the ‘comfort zone’ of a


ship or submarine. What you won’t


find at


Tregantle is the full disaster treatment provided by Bull Point in Devonport naval base. There’s no fire. No flood. What’s expected of the trainees here is more basic: rescuing a casualty from a ravine, clearing a landing site for a helicopter, erecting a field hospital, building a pen for livestock (but obviously not too close to the helicopter site…).


They have to do all that within eight hours,


weather. For good measure, there’s also


a giant tyre run (which involves running around the fort with a, er, giant tyre) and a Land Rover pull (the clue’s in the title) thrown in. Instructors are looking less at methods and results – as they would at Bull Point – than the ability of trainees to work as a team, and for some to step to the fore. Trainee submariner Ben Bardsley led a team who used wooden poles, ropes and pulleys to lift a piece of debris and free a person – the RN’s very own Frank Spencer, Fred – trapped underground (see picture above). “The worst part was having to tell people what to do because I’ve never done that before,” he said. “It was easier because I didn’t really know them.


“I think as a team they did


really well. There were some strong people who helped me through.” Logistician Francesca Gant took charge as a field hospital tent was put up within the 45-minute time limit. “I enjoyed it,” she said. “I


delegated putting up the tent to one of the lads who’d done it before on his public services course, so I could concentrate on manpower and timings. “It seemed to work well.


I


didn’t have any problems taking charge and I’d do exactly the same again.” Watching their progress was


WO ‘Scooby’ Drew of Corporate Squadron – the umbrella unit for junior rates undergoing their specialist training at Raleigh. “The feedback from the trainees has been extremely positive,” he said. “We’ll continue to enhance the training package that we deliver during future exercises.”


irrespective of the


Disaster strikes at Raleigh


Navy to make the new Logistics branch specialist titles work since their introduction in 2007, careful and detailed research over the past nine months has shown that a strong loyalty remains to the more traditional forms of address. While the name Logistics branch is widely accepted as a modernisation that better reflects the level and depth of the various skills called in to play, some of the specialist titles have not been so well received.


Despite huge effort across the


Call a chef a chef


l A Chef once more: Logs(CH) ‘Bugsy’ Malone or Chef to his friends


So a decision has been taken as the result of a formal study which included focus groups of logisticians, discussion with senior officers, both within the branch and outside, and engagement with commanding officers. Two areas have attracted significant debate – and these are the focus of the changes: the titles of junior rates of the Logistics Branch;


Formal address


Logistician (Chef) Smith Logistician (Steward) Smith


Leading Logistician (Chef) Smith Leading Logistician (Steward) Smith


Petty Officer Logistician (Catering Services) Smith


verbal address for all logistics personnel. One of the issues that we have long had here at Navy News when writing about logisticians is the inability to differentiate between the junior rating chefs and stewards without descending into the rather long-winded Logistician (Catering Services (Preparation)) as compared to Logistician (Catering Services (Delivery)). Sometimes this distinction is


important in a story. And indeed far more so in Naval and shipboard life.


But now the subspecialisation titles of Chef and Steward have been reintroduced for the junior rates. However at senior level the term


and simplification of


Chief Petty Officer Logistician (Catering Services) Smith


Warrant Officer Logistician (Catering Services) Smith


Logistician (Supply Chain) Smith


Petty Officer Logistician (Supply Chain) Smith


Chief Petty Officer Logistician (Supply Chain) Smith


Warrant Officer Logistician (Supply Chain) Smith


Logistician (Writer) Smith


Leading Logistician (Writer) Smith Petty Officer Logistician (Writer) Smith


Chief Petty Officer Logistician (Writer) Smith


Catering Services remains, as this does better reflect the broader remit of their roles.


between the formal written title and address, and the informal verbal address which will be used in pipes (and in this paper the majority of the time). So formerly Logistician


There also remains a distinction


Informal address Chef Smith


Steward Smith Leading Chef Smith


Leading Steward Smith PO Caterer Smith


Chief Caterer Smith Warrant Officer Caterer Smith SC Smith Leading Logistician (Supply Chain) Smith LSC Smith PO SC Smith Chief SC Smith Warrant Officer SC Smith Writer Smith


Leading Writer Smith PO Writer Smith Chief Writer Smith


Warrant Officer Logistician (Writer) Smith Warrant Officer Writer Smith


(Catering Services (Preparation)) Smith is now Logistician (Chef) Smith, and informally Chef Smith. (Which if nothing else will save some ink...)


The Supply Chain title has been strongly supported by former Stores Accountants, and


over the course of the research the decision was taken to keep the new name, but provide a less unwieldy abbreviation for daily use – so Logistican Supply Chain is now shortened to SC and LSC for junior ratings, and POSC, ChiefSC and Warrant Officer SC for senior rates. The title Logistician Personnel has also prompted fierce debate, with a majority wishing to return to the traditional form of Writer. While neither title fully reflects the broad range of adminstration and information management


Abbrev


Logs(Ch) Logs(Std) LLogs(Ch) LLogs(Std) POLogs(CS)


CPOLogs(CS) WOLogs(CS)


Logs(SC) LLogs(SC)


POLogs(SC) CPOLogs(SC) WOLogs(SC)


Logs(Wtr) LLogs(Wtr)


POLogs(Wtr) CPOLogs(Wtr)


WOLogs(Wtr)


demanded by the role, the feeling was that as a Writer, the logistician could look back on a long and proud history and a strong sense of identity particular to the Naval service.


While the changes of address


have already come into force, it will take some time for the name changes to be filtered through into the JPA change programme. New badges with the updated specialisations will be issued once the new order is placed, but in the meantime the current badges will still be seen around the Fleet.


British links strong with US Navy


THE US Navy’s USS Winston S Churchill, named in honour of the UK’s wartime Prime Minister, was navigated into Portsmouth by the Royal Navy’s Lt Brian Drewett in June, writes Lt Cdr Heather Lane. The ship, an Arleigh Burke class


of taking the ship around the world.


destroyer, was visiting the south of England, coinciding with the 66th anniversary weekend of D-Day. The USS Winston S Churchill is the only US Navy ship to have a Royal Navy officer assigned permanently to the ship’s company in honour of the ship’s namesake. As part of the unique personnel exchange programme, Lt Brian Drewett is currently serving as the ship’s navigator for a two-year tour of duty.


five of the Royal Navy’s top young navigators have had the privilege


ship’s Commanding Officer, Cdr Juan Orozco, for the navigational safety of the vessel, for planning and preparing charts and routes, for anticipating weather patterns and for additional navigational training of watchkeepers on the bridge.


Cdr Orozco said: “The ship is excited and proud to be visiting the UK; we’ve worked really hard over the last few months. “I know the ship’s company


Since the ship commissioned,


can’t wait to get out and about over the weekend to some of the unique and historic places in England; this will be a real treat before our real work starts in earnest maintaining maritime security in the Gulf region.”


Lt Drewett is responsible to the Picture: LA(Phot) Gaz Weatherston twhereo look report


pay freeze 43/10: Publication of the Saville Inquiry


Defence Internal Briefs (DIBs) 44/10: Emergency Budget – Public Sector


Allowance 41/10: The Prime Minister’s visit to Afghanistan – summary 39/10: Defence Secretary’s objectives and priorities 38/10: Royal Centre for Defence Medicine Clinical Unit – move of clinical services to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham 36/10: New Defence Ministerial team and


42/10: Doubling of Operational


responsibilities 35/10: Countdown to Armed Forces Day 2010 – one month to go 34/10:


efficiencies to support £6 billion of savings in 2010-11


Defence Instructions and Notices DIN 2010 DIN01-115: Ministry of Defence Civilian Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender (LGBT) official participation in London Pride March 3 Jul 10


DIN 2010 DIN01-114: MOD Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) forum on July 1 followed by Quad Service LGBT Conference July 2 2010 DIN 2010 DIN01-113: Introduction of


Charge METOC


DIN 2010 DIN01-112: Formation of the Defence Cultural Specialist Unit and Cultural Specialist courses


Working Allowance DIN 2010 DIN01-110: Requirement for Naval Service personnel to hold a valid European Health Insurance card(EHIC) DIN 2010 DIN01-109: Publication of


DIN 2010 DIN01-111: Operational


revised JSP 763 MOD Bullying & Harassment procedures and JSP 831 Service complaints DIN 2010 DIN01-108: Senior Officer’s course – NATO Defence College, Rome DIN 2010 DIN01-107: NHS Pension Scheme – Pension choice exercise DIN 2010 DIN01-106: Full Integration Of


Weapon Engineering (WE) and Information Systems (IS) Engineering Specialisations DIN 2010 DIN01-105: Revised messing and single accommodation charges for MOD civilians temporarily residing in Service messes in the UK DIN 2010 DIN01-102: Day of Prayer for the Armed Forces – Thursday June 24 2010 DIN 2010 DIN02-010: Introduction of new vetting system (Cerberus) DIN 2010 DIN02-009: Handling MOD


personal data


and HMS Victorious transition to and from G Role (Gold Crew)


DIN 2010 DIN03-012: Freedom of navigation – RN procedures and practice DIN 2010 DIN03-010: JSP 510


DIN 2010 DIN03-013: HMS Vengeance Implementing Government


International Defence Training: publication of version 4.


DIN 2010 DIN05-038: Handling and use of commercially sensitive information DIN 2010 DIN05-037: British Forces Post Office (BFPO) Postal Inspection and Advisory Team (PIAT) DIN 2010 DIN05-036: Commissioning of Fleet Forward Support (Air) as 1710 (Forward Support) Naval Air Squadron DIN 2010 DIN05-035: Information risk


policy


DIN 2010 DIN07-084: Information Management courses for training year 2010-11 at the Defence Academy College of Management and Technology DIN 2010 DIN07-083: Intermediate Command and Staff course (Maritime) (ICSC(M))


DIN 2010 DIN07-082: Tri-Service university short course programme – academic year 2010/11 DIN 2010 DIN07-081: Education courses at NETS Learning Centres East (HMS Nelson), West (HMS Drake) and North (HMS Neptune, incl HMS Caledonia) DIN 2010 DIN07-078: Defence policy on computer users’ training DIN 2010 DIN07-076: Defence Diving School courses for training year 2010/11 DIN 2010 DIN07-075: Selection of RN/ RM candidates for legal training DIN 2010 DIN09-003: Armed Forces Day June 26 2010


and Wakeboarding Championship 2010 – September 6-10 2010 DIN 2010 DIN10-030: Officers’ Riding


Course


DIN 2010 DIN10-029: RAFSA Dinghy Sailing Championship (Brady Trophy)


Galaxy Messages GALAXY 2010-10: Changes to Logistics Branch specialist titles GALAXY 2010-09: Armed Forces Continuous Attitude Survey 2009 results


Royal Navy Temporary Memoranda Issue 05/10 Nos 096/10: Formation of the Navy Command’s Third Sector Organisation Issue 05/10 Nos 099/10: The Sports Amenities and Benevolence Scheme (SABS) Issue 05/10 Nos 100/10: Fleet HM


capability


Warfare School bridge simulator booking procedure and guide


the ship’s Pilot Ladder Issue 06/10 Nos 120/10: RN Tempest


Policy Issue 06/10 Nos 117/10: Maritime


Issue 06/10 Nos 118/10: Introduction of Naval Service manning and training margin categories and JPA positions Issue 06/10 Nos 119/10: Shortening of


Issue 07/10 Nos 122/10: Royal Navy and Royal Marines’ Competitive Combat Shooting participation in the Central Skill at Arms Meeting (CENTSAM) 2010 Issue 07/10 Nos 123/10: Sideways entry to the Dental Hygienist Branch Issue 07/10 Nos 124/10: Royal Marines Band Service: candidate for promotion (career progression path) Issue 07/10 Nos 125/10: Revision Of Navy Command Environmental Management questionnaire and guidance notes Issue 07/10 Nos 127/10: RN Trophy Fund – volunteer trustee required. Issue 07/10 Nos 129/10: The Naval Service Prizes and Awards Fund (the Charity) charity no: 1117794 / 6 Issue 07/10 Nos 130/10: Joint Service Rowing Regatta – Wed July 21 2010 Royal Navy Calling Notice for entries Issue 07/10 Nos 131/10: Br2170(4)


DIN 2010 DIN10-031: Army Waterskiing


electronic version for submarines Issue 07/10 Nos 132/10: Maritime Information Management governance policy and structure afloat (RN afloat and mobile RN/RM, Commands and deployed units) Issue 07/10 Nos 136/10: Divisional management and documentation mandatory checking of personal information held on JPA Issue 07/10 Nos 137/10: Review of Naval Engineering


l Lt Brian Drewett


Issue 07/10 Nos 138/10: Aspects of the Summary Discipline process


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