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ISSUE 133 SEPTEMBER 2009 Future Operating Concepts for Maritime Geospatial Forces & Defending Australia in the Australia Pacific Century Same, Same but Different; A Personal Perspective on the Requirements for a Future Submarine One Schoolie’s War: Instructor Lieutenant Commander George Lawrence Hogben DSC, US Bronze Star, RNZN, 1939-1945 HMS Amethyst. Simon the ship’s cat, & John Kerans, the black sheep of the RN Personnel Retention In The Ran Don’t call me ‘Sir’… the Use of Titles & Names in the Royal Australian Navy Honour: Fundamental Value Journal of the Issue 133 3 Contents Reader Response 4 Future Operating Concepts for Maritime Geospatial Forces and Defending Australia in the Australia Pacific Century 5 Same, Same but Different; A Personal Perspective on the Requirements for a Future Submarine 12 HMAS Sydney arrive in New York , steaming up the Hudson river, Sunday July 19, 2009 One Schoolie’s War: accompanied by United States Navy warship USS Mahan Instructor Lieutenant Commander George Lawrence Hogben DSC, US Bronze Star, RNZN, 1939-1945 16 Personnel Retention In The RAN 27 Don’t call me ‘Sir’… the Use of Titles and Names in the Royal Australian Navy 30 HMS Amethyst. Simon the ship’s cat, and John Kerans, the black sheep of the RN 33 Honour: Fundamental Value 39 Front page: Talent Management – An organisational HMAS Ballarat analysis 42 during a scenic sunset at Cumulative Hazard Risk Modelling for anchor off the coast of Egypt Naval Platforms 47 A Look at some of the Implications of Climate Change upon the RAN 51 Visions from the Vault 55 Issue Number 133 ANI Online Guide 56 Printed by Everbest Printing Company HMAS Sydney steams past the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor, Sunday July 19, 2009 Style Notes for Contributors 57 ISSN 1833-6531 Australian Naval Institute Info 58 - RAYTHEON AUSTRALIA - BOOZ & COMPANY - AUSTAL - THALES NAVAL GROUP - DEFENCE MARITIME SERVICES - QUINETIQ Design & DTP: ANI Membership Application Form 59 Diane Bricknell - AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE CREDIT UNION - ATI - EDS - LOPAC - SAAB [email protected] Journal of the Australian Naval Institute 4 Reader Response Sir, and Defence Forces are ultimately ‘face time’ with fleet units is absurd. I commend the Naval Institute for accountable. The stated content of the paper included an “offer of recent their efforts in promoting informed Furthermore, the author fails to examples of operational military surveying in a naval context”. writing and discussion through the achieve the stated intention of the One of these examples is contained in the one sentence of inaugural award of CDRE Roberston paper (detailed in paragraph 6) through paragraph 22 (United States Naval Service), and according to Essay. However, in bestowing the award impenetrable grammar and archaic the footnotes is the sum total of conversations held over three for 2008 on a substandard piece of language, overuse (and incorrect days between the author and the Operations Officer on the work “Remilitarising the Australian use) of acronyms, pretentiousness, USNS Henson. Hydrographic Service (or (Why the overemotional language, incomplete The discussion on hydrography in the Royal Navy also Droggies Need Disbanding)”, (Headmark, research and most alarmingly, disloyalty appears totally informed by a recruiting leaflet, theHMS March 2008) the Institute does itself to fellow officers and the Service. Enterprise website and a discussion with the Executive Officer a disservice and damages the future I have puzzled long and hard over of HMS Enterprise. The author claims that nautical charting reputation of this award. the meaning of several sections without responsibilities have been transferred from the Royal Navy The paper fails on a number of levels. success, including the following: “An to the Foreign Office and references the statement through Most notably the author fails to position evolved AHS with wartime antecedent footnote 14 to the above website and discussion. This website the discussion within the current would suggestively leave the extant, states: strategic context and priorities as stated contemporary AHS wishing to “In addition to surveying in overseas areas, [hydrographic] in the Defence White Paper, but instead evolve in its wake when comparing ships of the flotilla are constantly engaged in updating the charts harks back to the supposedly “glory days” appropriateness of equipment, attitude covering the waters around the United Kingdom” in a very different context of World War of officer, and maturity of doctrine, This is clearly at variance with the statement in the paper II covert operations. The White Paper procedures and product.” and brings in to question the reliability of both of the personal (page 47) states that: I find it appalling that the author has communication sources. More specifically the author fails “The key to defending Australia is been rewarded for launching a scathing to inform that the national charting responsibility is a joint to control the air and sea approaches and unfounded attack on his fellow venture between the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and to our continent, so as to deny them officers (paragraph 13). The author Ministry of Defence, the latter being a key supplier of vessels to hostile ships and aircraft, and feels no compunction to provide any and man power (as indicated above), and the immediate provide maximum freedom of action hard data to support his statements hierarchy to the UK Hydrographic Office. for our forces. That means we need concerning the four “types” of While the author finds no problem with hydrographic ships a fundamentally maritime strategy. Hydrographers or his offensive inference in the Royal Navy requiring “close escort in a potentially hostile Our strategic geography, our relatively that the Hydrographic service is a environment” he dismisses the force protection requirements small population and our comparative dumping ground for disinterested and/ of Australian ships as “baby-sitter operations”. advantage in a range of technologies all or incompetent and/or “soft” officers that The author places great emphasis on warfare skills but dictate that our defence should focus on can’t make the grade at the “sharp” end. seems to have forgotten some of the basic requirements of an our air and sea approaches.” Neither is the comparison between officer in the Royal Australian Navy and should take some time Given this strategic context, the the two specialisations for Maritime to re-acquaint himself with the Navy values of Integrity – “the current role of the Hydrographic Service Geospatial Officers – Hydrography display of truth, honesty and fairness that gains respect and is very clear, and flies directly in the face or Meteorology and Oceanography trust from others” and Loyalty – “being committed to each of the discussion paper subtitle “Why the (METOC) valid. METOC specialists other and to our duty of service to Australia”. I congratulate the Droggies Need Disbanding”. The author’s are dealing with the highly dynamic author on his recent selection for promotion, and trust that suggestion that only main fairways and atmosphere, with a specific task of in his new rank he will do more to uphold and mentor these ports need to be surveyed to adequately managing constantly changing data values. defend the Nation is an astonishingly within the battle space of a Task Group. This essay contains few facts, very little discussion and naive assumption. For Hydrographers, the same real-time appears to be the platform on which a disgruntled member can In a thinly veiled slur to his superiors data manipulation capability is not air his grievances. The basic structure of an essay is absent, with and the government of the day (“The required, as their aim is the collection the sweeping (and unsupported) statements of the concluding AHO... will continue to commit military and correlation of data for use at a paragraphs having no substantive place in the body or indeed operational support to a lower priority strategic or operational level, well before the introduction. in order to achieve accountable-to- the tactical situation develops. The In closing, as the first recipient of this award, this winning Canberra measurable goals”) the author suggestion that hydrography is not a essay sets the bar very low for future entrants. seems confused as to who the Fleet maritime warfare enabler due to a lack of Matthew Templeton Journal of the Australian Naval Institute Issue 133 5 Future Operating Concepts for Maritime Geospatial Forces and Defending Australia in the Australia Pacific Century byC OMMANDER STEWART DUNNE “To be, or not to be: that is the question” future plans for the development efficiencies and long term cost savings. – Hamlet (Act III, Scene I) of Force 2030, including the major Importantly, this will also address capability investments that will need to seagoing capacity that has been a ike all high level Defence be made in the coming years. feature of current survey platform documents post the delivery This will directly impact on the limitations, allowing a degree of ofL the Defence White Paper 2009 Hydrographic Survey Force (HSF). flexibility and deployability in how (DWP) there will be a need to revisit, The 100 or so words pertaining to and when the platforms can be used in if not substantially rewrite the way the HSF future are embedded in the future. that business will be conducted in the Offshore Combatant Vessels section future. of chapter nine, which detail the New Role, New Function? This is no less relevant