Chris Groves – What happens if you fail Perisher

Fundamentally you don’t necessarily leave the Submarine Service, but you have a choice to make.

You’re not going to go back to sea in a submarine in a complement position if you fail Perisher. 

You can opt to stay in the Submarine Service where I guess your promotion prospects are somewhat limited by that choice. You’re certainly not going to make it to the top.

Doesn’t mean you can’t be promoted through staff roles and there’s a real requirement for having staff submarine qualified Officers.

The other thing that you can choose to do is go down the surface ship route, so you can transfer to become a Principle Warfare Officer, so you go from having done Submarine Command Course to then going down surface ship warfare route which can be quite successful for a lot of people.