Navy to be stood down
SHUTTING down the Navy for the summer holidays is a way of retaining sailors, Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon says.
It’s also a way of abrogating defence responsibilities.
I can just see the people smugglers in Indonesia frantically putting out the message that it will be open season for queue jumpers over the summer break.
Docked ships will be manned by a skeleton staff using protective alarms.Yeah, that’ll work. I trust the protective alarms are tactically sited to give all round defence.
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Got any other solutions for the Navy/defence personnel exodus? Fact: Howard had our miniature navy deployed to everywhere but the moon and it was killing morale during a mining boom. It also caused the Sea king disaster (that chopper hadn’t been properly serviced due to the fact that it hadn’t been at a home port in ages) mind you- it was all for political pointscoring and “aid” to Howards best friends the indonesians after one of their earthquakes. The deceased members service was quite moving but none of this should have happened.
We don’t stop servicing aircraft because they aren’t at their home port. – there were other factors involved. I can see from your prospective it would be nice to blame Howard but he didn’t really cause the tsumani and could only do what he could with what resources he had – even if they were overstretched. If he had done nothing you would bang on about that ad nauseum.
And no, I don’t have any immediate answers for the drain of service personnel but but the fact that Howard took over a gutted ADF and economy and took a decade to get to the situation where he could start rebuilding had some impact on the problem.
Anyway, if you understand that or not, standing down a good proportion of the ADF is not an answer.