Hmm. Jury still out on this one. Not sure if it was incompetent film making/editing or the demeanour of some of the younger crew members. Complaining about only getting 5 hours sleep a night during a "work-up"! Luxury! But the film never once mentioned that a ship doesn't go into the Thursday War until it has done a couple of weeks basic training. The impression given was that the ship went directly from a long spell in port into a practise "war-zone". Surely not so. We used to have the 1st week of "work-up" in harbour doing all the usual stuff and drills etc. before we went out into the channel. Also during that 1st week, all the ships systems and procedures were checked out ( in my dept. that meant all Nav. charts and publications, ammunition stowage and papertrail etc.). It is also pretty common knowledge that the FOST staff will mark you down during the first couple of weeks no matter how perfect you may be. Then in the following weeks you will be gradually get marked higher...this is supposed to reflect well on the FOST staff input and "their" training regime. Some of the staff are superb and really want to help, but I'm afraid that quite a lot of them just like being in a position to hector rather than "train". Like I said, the jury is still out.....nearly forgot, does the "Lust" really only have a Lt.Cdr. as its senior engineer officer? And does that rather dirty air compressor really get used for recharging B.A.tanks?