The Flag Officer Sea Training organisation has been renamed Fleet Operational Sea Training (still known as ‘FOST’), under the Command of Cdre Andrew Stacey.
FOST is a world centre of excellence for naval basic and advanced operational training and responsible for ensuring that Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessels are fit to join the operational fleet.
Under Navy Transformation, the Flag Officer Sea Training organisation has been renamed Fleet Operational Sea Training (so still known as “FOST”!), under the Command of Cdre Andrew Stacey.
FOST: World-Class, World-Wide pic.twitter.com/sPkrlUQ5k1
— FOST Royal Navy (@FOST) June 29, 2020
“As a result of the Royal Navy programme ‘Fleet First’, FOST became the single command responsible for all sea training. The submarine sea-training organisation came under FOST and surface ship training previously undertaken by Flag Officer Surface Flotilla and the squadron staffs also shifted to FOST. As well as training Royal Navy personnel, it has also been an important source of revenue in training foreign naval crews to handle and fight their vessels, with around one third of its work used in this capacity.”
FOST certifies crews and vessels as being sufficiently prepared for any eventuality through rigorous exercises and readiness inspections.
Wow, George is going ballistic….so many new articles….’someone stop the guy’.
Sorry, what do you mean? We’ve published less today than usual.
Thank God they kept the term FOST.
Probably to save money not changing it.
Here,here
Just as well it wasn’t fleet action resources training 🙂
Comedy acronyms.
Someone in the ASW world had a sense of humour.
For active sonar training we used to use SLUTs. I may be mistaken but before that I think we used SLAGs
There was a short thread a year ago or so which produced some interesting military acronyms. One contributor. I can’t remember who, said that MILF was in use in the Philippines!
MILFs “in use” are a must!! ?
I had to look up MILF at the time Daniele…my sheltered upbringing and all that! Still not quite sure what it means!
SHIP LAUNCHED UDERDERWATER TARGET TRANSDUCER
SHIP LAUNCHED ACCOUSTIC GENERATOR
And while I think of it there was also a TART
Bring back CSST !
Not that anything changed, it just kept submarines that wee bit different. 😉
You’ve lost me with that one.
I know of SPAGs and SETTs concerning subs.
What’s a CSST??
If I recall, CSST = Captain Submarines Shore and Sea Training.
It’s still better than being WAFU.