Posted on Jun 6, 2018
Troubling US Navy review finds widespread shortfalls in basic seamanship
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"The Navy’s top surface warfare officer Vice Adm. Richard Brown, who leads Naval Surface Force Pacific, termed the results “sobering."
Powers, R. (2016, Nov. 9). Surface Warfare Officer. Retrieved from https://www.thebalancecareers.com/surface-warfare-officer-3356616
Powers, R. (2016, Nov. 9). Surface Warfare Officer. Retrieved from https://www.thebalancecareers.com/surface-warfare-officer-3356616
Troubling US Navy review finds widespread shortfalls in basic seamanship
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While I absolutely believe that there is a problem, I would really like to see some of the senior leadership take these exams, too. Let us see how well they do...
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LT Brad McInnis
PO2 Eric Schlatter - Not sure what kind of training you had, but that stuff and more was always covered in duty section training and other avenues (at least on every ship I have been on)...
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Key concern, does this reflect, high turn over rates, of NCOs and junior officers?
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Basic seamanship hasn't been a Navy priority for the past 30 years. How many Navy sailors know where their ship's sextant is stored and how to use it?
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LT Brad McInnis
Every OOD I worked with knew where it was.... now how to use it? Personally, I used to test my QM's all the time on celestial Nav. Used to have competitions to see who could get the smallest error. Mainly did it to teach myself CELNAV....
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