I've made it into The Times today (Pg 57) as "The Top Young Officer in Warfare Specialization: Sub Lieutenant Christopher Daly, RN". Chuffed, never ;)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article1912076.ece?token=null&offset=0

That's it. 358 days after joining the Royal Navy, I've passed out of Britannia Royal Naval College as an Officer (top of my class too).  As we marched up the stairs and in through the main doors, swords in hands and watched by family, friends and other officers, i think every single one of us had tears in our eyes - i've never felt any think like ( Read more... )

Visited Kent on Friday night whilst she was in Dartmouth, met the YO Training Officer and drank Magners in the Wardroom. hink i'm gonna like it on there.  AND: I don't join until 2 July, so i get a whole 3 weeks off between passing out of Dartmouth and joning ship, so... i need entertainment people! (oh, and it looks like i've got August off, so i ( Read more... )

I'm on duty today at the Squadron Duties Officer; possibly the most pointless duty of them all.  Apart from mustering at 0730 for the handover, i have absolutely nothing to do all day until 1830, when i turn off lots of lights and computers to save energy, and then at 2230 i do rounds to make sure no one's about to kill themselves. So i'm stuck in ( Read more... )

Dartmouth really does screw with ones concept of time.  I can't remember what i did on Monday, it seems so long ago, yet it feels like i've blinked and i'm starting my 5th phase of training here.  In 15 weeks time i (hopefully) pass out of BRNC and into the Fleet after a year of training. That's really quite a scary thought ( Read more... )

Well what a few weeks it's been. Last week the Squadron Senior SLt was away for a leadership exercise, so i got to sit in the big chair and run the Squadron for a week. Man i had no idea just how much extra work there is, from writing the weekly report, night orders every evening and just keeping up with everything that's going on and has to be ( Read more... )

Happy new year everyone. How you all had a great break over christmas and santa brought you everything you wanted ( Read more... )

/me jumps on the bandwagon...

There won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time,
The greatest gift they'll get this year is Guruchris.

Do They Know It's Christmas
from the Christmas Song Generator.

OK, so i finally got xmas leave (couple of days later than planned, but hey, that's life in a blue suit™), and now i'm totally bored. There's no one around, i've got nothing to do, so i've spent the entire day sitting in my boxers chatting on MSN and surfing the web.

I need entertainment people!

Woot! I passed my oral board. 2 hour grilling with one of the officers on everything i've done over the past 5 weeks. It was hard to say the least, especially as the officer conducting the board had bowel problems (first thing he said when i sat down was "Sorry i'm late, i was just trying to make you nervous. Do you have a problem with people ( Read more... )