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- Our Navy experienced
five serious incidents

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in the Pacific resulting in the loss

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of 20 dedicated sailors,
American patriots all.

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And we owe it to our fallen sailors,

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our active duty sailors, and
our loved ones who support us

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to quickly and forcefully
apply these lessons learned

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through corrective
action, and that's exactly

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what we're doing.

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- Changes that we are making to

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the Surface Warfare Training
and Career Continuum,

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these are changing our
bedrock foundations.

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Our officers are gonna show up to the ship

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so much better prepared
to walk up to that bridge

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and have that confidence on
their very first bridge watch.

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Their mettle, their grit
will have been tested

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through the Surface Warfare Training.

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They're gonna get a tremendous amount

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of reps and sets that follow a model

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of teaching classroom instruction
on how to do something

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and then you're gonna
spend the entire afternoon

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in this simulator going
through those reps and sets

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to really instill confidence in you,

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to instill that you've
seen what right looks like.

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- It's necessary to
always think dynamically

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and for us to focus on that in this course

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because that's how being
a Bridge Watch Stander is.

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No watch is exactly the same,

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different things will come up,
different situations arise,

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different ships will
react differently at sea,

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and to give the students
that practical application

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in the simulator before
they are out in open ocean

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is incredibly valuable.

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- We never know until we
get into their shoes exactly

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what they experience,
and these cove scenarios

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definitely put us into those shoes.

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We can't think of it as just a simulator.

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These things actually
happen, so it definitely

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puts us into that mindset
of those stresses,

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of everything that you
have to think about.

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You have to know the big picture in order

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to know what went
through those OD's heads,

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and that captain, you know,

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as those decisions were being made.

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(muffled teaching)

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- Really the big thing is the
increase in simulator time.

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You can't go wrong with that,

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just the hands-on time in the sim.

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I think the Navy's finally buying in on

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the real impact of human factors

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and bridge resource
management and leadership

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and communication and all that stuff.

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They're really doing a good job

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of increasing emphasis on it,

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particularly in the younger officers.

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- From this JOD course
I've learned a lot about

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being a Surface Prepare Officer.

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Definitely one of the
most significant things

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was looking at the case
studies and realizing

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how influential or how much responsibility

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there is on the Bridge Watch Standers.

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And it made me want to learn how to be

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the best Bridge Watch Stander I can

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because it's up to us to keep our ship

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and everyone inside safe.

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So, for me that is the biggest absolute

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most important takeaway from this course,

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of realizing the power of
responsibility that you have.

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- 2017 was no doubt a challenging year

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for the Surface Warfare Command,

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but we also learned a tremendous
amount about ourselves.

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We learned a lot of the areas that

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we really needed to
induce vast improvement,

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and we're getting after it.

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We're capitalizing on this opportunity

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to fundamentally shift
Surface Warfare Community

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to ensure that wherever we're called upon,

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wherever we need to go
to execute sea control,

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and whatever competitive
environment we're in,

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we're gonna be ready.