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Old 13th Aug 2023, 17:57
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Bengo
 
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I don't think this is an inter service thing. It is choosing the wrong horse for the course, or the wrong trainer. Marham, with the best efforts of both shades of blue, failed to deliver an effective seagoing Squadron. Why would anyone expect it to? It was asked to deliver something it was not experienced at. I suspect that if you gave Yeovilton the task of standing up the Typhoon force they would do just as badly.
That said, there used to be checks and opportunities to catch the errors. The Flight or Squadron formal ORI was the first. OST was the next. Hen it was over to the ship's QA team to make sure that QC was happening. To support that the Staff were out and about, reporting directly to the Admiral who was responsible.

This whole system appears to have fallen apart.

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