{"id":1436,"date":"2015-01-20T08:59:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T19:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2015-01-20T09:15:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T20:15:22","slug":"the-navy-under-the-command-of-gerry-brownlee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=1436","title":{"rendered":"The Navy under the command of Gerry Brownlee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/avatr.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/avatr.gif\" alt=\"avatr\" width=\"70\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Mana News editor Joe Trinder<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/wellington.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1437\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/wellington-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"wellington\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/wellington-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/wellington-495x279.jpg 495w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/wellington.jpg 618w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Royal New Zealand Navy has been unable to board tooth fishing vessels Kunlun, Songhua and Yongding from Equatorial Guinea in the southern ocean.\u00a0 The defence minister Gerry Brownlee has declared the mission of HMNZS Wellington a success despite the primary objective of a boarding party is to board a vessel, like many New Zealanders I&#8217;m confused how that is a\u00a0success.<\/p>\n<p>I have done fisheries patrols in the southern ocean on board HMNZS Waikato. \u00a0The Navy like any organisation has to adhere to strict health and safety policies for example in 2007 when the inflatable Rhib flipped over and caused the death of able seamen Byron Solomon .The seas in the southern ocean are rough and this type of incident could easily happen again trying to board an uncooperative fishing vessel steaming at 20 knots. It\u2019s not worth the risk endangering defence force personal lives boarding these vessels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/brownlee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1441 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/brownlee-300x285.jpg\" alt=\"brownlee\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/brownlee-300x285.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/brownlee.jpg 349w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>To be honest If I was still in the defence force I would be reluctant to risk my life for such a comical character such as\u00a0Gerry Brownlee. Would thousands of patriotic New Zealanders \u00a0storm the beaches of Gallipoli, attack airfields in north Africa or trench through the steamy jungles of Vietnam at the command of Gerry Brownlee not really.<\/p>\n<p>I spoke to Jim Albert a veteran of the Malaysian emergency, the\u00a0only war communism was defeated in the cold war, I asked Jim would he have fought in\u00a0Malayasia with Gerry Brownlee as the commander in chief\u00a0he said &#8220;No bloody way&#8221;. To be an effective organisation the military needs an effective commander they can respect like Lieutenant General\u00a0Jerry Mateparae. The government needs to reconsider\u00a0appointing\u00a0\u00a0MP Gerry Brownlee as the minister of defence\u00a0he just doesn&#8217;t come off as a military strategist that could command thousands of soldiers, sailors and airmen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Mana News editor Joe Trinder The Royal New Zealand Navy has been unable to board tooth fishing vessels Kunlun, Songhua and Yongding from Equatorial Guinea in the southern ocean.\u00a0 The defence minister Gerry Brownlee has declared the mission of HMNZS Wellington a success despite the primary objective of a boarding party is to board a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1468,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions\/1468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}