Hmmmm not sure on this West Indies Porter. I’d say it’s a great deal more hoppy than a standard Guinness, and for me that translates into a sort of fizz. That said I like how much more punchy it tastes at 6%. Bitter coffee is more pronounced. Might be a little too stout for me.

An emotional interview that brought to a close our series of episodes looking at the loss of HMS Coventry in 1982. Grab a brew and listen as Dougie Douglas talks you through what happens when your ship is sunk. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

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When the ‘strategic reserve’ are called up, you’ve only been onboard twenty four hours, and someone tries to tell you that you can’t have a smoke when welding sentry down the deep mag.

When the ‘strategic reserve’ are called up, you’ve only been onboard twenty four hours… And you’re piped to the Reg office.

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Macanudo Cafe Crystal. Bought up a few of these in Gibraltar at a bargain price. Mexican filler and binder. Connecticut shade wrapper. Supposed to be more a novice smoke but I paid £70 for ten so couldn’t resist. Cutlass Black Forest Gateau Stout /1

x.com/disclosetv/s... Demons😂😂😂😂 Fucking crackhead😂😂😂🤦‍♂️

Do we know if it’s true there’s no night leave granted on the Ford?

missilethreat.csis.org/missile/simo... Everyone in a panic as though this DG thing is news. It’s not.

x.com/adamjschwarz... Ok well…. Have to say he’s out Trump’d Trump here.

x.com/ajenglish/st... *sigh Inevitable really.

When you spend all day doing the aircrew survival kit distress flare check, and you put your overalls in the laundry… And an hour later the general alarm goes off.

It’s nonsense. If anything happened, they lost smoke containment and smoke boundary and some accommodation areas are now uninhabitable and so you hot bunk. And / or boundary cooling with seawater trashed some messdecks.

I think Cuba are watching this and fancy their chances.

Morning winners!

Well everything is going to shit so maybe ….

One of the things the people who haven’t transited the PG also don’t mention, is the large number of disused oil and gas platforms. In 1991 these had to be cleared , often with SF from submarines. Iraqi stay behind teams with support weapons were placed to catch shipping.

x.com/whitehouse/s... Yeah. I know.

This should serve as a reminder to EVERYONE who talks about the Straits. The risk is from where the convoy forms up outside the PG, and once you are through, the risk is the same UNTIL you get out again. Hormuz is just one part of a very dangerous place.

Meanwhile, in the Pentagon, senior staff gather to phase eleventy of Operation Epic Furry…Fury…. www.facebook.com/share/v/1Som...

Lost contact fifteen Texaco c/s up.

I think Americans lecturing Brits about military capability and professionalism, days after they levelled St Trinians, is a little ironic to be fair. Gospel of John 8:7 seems appropriate, as does a healthy dose of self awareness.

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Massive air strikes ongoing and yet what is this.

Down and dirty fast space about the Straits, convoys and what it’s actually like in that part of the World. 1500 GMT.

When an American accuses a Brit of turning up late for a war…

“Iranian Patriots, keep protesting – take over your institutions!!! … help is on its way,” The price of a bruised ego.

“Iranian Patriots, keep protesting – take over your institutions!!! … help is on its way,”

X12 tankers up Israel / Jordan now.

x.com/gcaptain/sta... It’ll take one kill. Whoever CTG is for the first convoy (s) will need a lot of luck. IRGC will throw everything at this.

Blog raid building. Eight Texaco c/s in total up over mainly Jordan.

Ford doing a Suez transit. Couple of possibilities:- CDG and additional assets around Cyprus are now considered sufficient to manage threat. It’s less about Ford and more about her escorts as part of a potential Hormuz op. IE team up Ford and Lincoln and free up some DDG.

Absolute dancer of a wine from Ukraine.

That’s interesting. Ran the Straits AIS on. So with IRGC blessing. Which would be adding insult to injury really.

We are on a clock.

Tanker shipping costs, cost of bunker fuel out the Far East, and lack of consumer goods (IE Food) moving through the Straits, are ones to watch.

x.com/dabberthough... A serving naval officer.

When you’ve been three years in the trenches with UAV’s, killing Russians, and the UAE wanna put you up in the Royal Mirage so you can start killing Iranians… youtu.be/crUQ2rAk5AE?...

Sorry not sorry. I’m glad I’m out. I’m furious if they asked I’d go back. And it disgusts me this is what we have put up with.

Having been Chiefs and WO’s messman for four months, can confirm this was every Thursday meat raffle:- youtu.be/e8Uhf3gM1m0?...

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