Yea all true. And a submariner led the Falklands campaign. Very astutely too.
By way of example, and the sun dodger world was a prime example of whole ship knowledge, I, as an aviator, was expected to watch keep and get my ticket on a small ship. The rationale was it would probably save your, or somebody else’s, life some day. By the same token all GL officers were meant to aspire to ship command some day; didn’t really matter if it was a FI patrol boat or a Type 22. To some extent dependant on their specializations, or just down to what was going begging at the time. The fact that they included flying in their resumés was something of an aside.
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