Interesting parallels throughout UK Defence with what has been going on in the US Navy's Pacific fleet. This
blog by a serving OF-5 points the finger at centrally-directed cuts to training and bemoans the fact that the blame for the inevitable incidents has fallen squarely on the front-line commanders, who are being let down by the system's failure to provide sufficient trained individuals and have no way of influencing that system. In the circumstances described their only option would be to down-declare their units...