Don Cleavin – Flag Officer Submarine FOSM

Simon: Maybe we’ll talk about the FOS, the time you were in FOS in Gosport. The Flag Officer Submarine. FOSM is it?

Flag Officer Submarines.

Simon: What does that mean then? That’s based in Gosport.

Don It was, you don’t have it anymore. You have Senior Officers Submarines now. He’s not an Admiral, Commadore I think.

Flag Officer Submarines was in charge of all British submarines.

He was living in Gosport, but he was responsible for Plymouth and Faslane but also he was in charge of NATO submarines, Eastern Atlantic.