On the Care and Feeding of Young SWOs
By Captain Kevin S. J. Eyer, U.S. Navy
Today's new surface warfare officers report to their ships woefully unprepared to do their jobs.
If you are a young officer who has decided to join the surface warfare community, you will arrive on your ship directly from your commissioning source. Unlike years past, there will be no intervening school experience designed to certify that you arrive with an assured level of ship knowledge. Rather, it will be presumed that you learned and retained a broad range of surface warfare topics while at your commissioning source.
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Captain Eyer is the ACOS for Fleet Training at the Naval Mine and Antisubmarine Warfare Command in San Diego. He recently completed a tour as commanding officer of the USS Chancellorsville (CG-62) and is one of two officers to have commanded three Aegis cruisers, including the Shiloh (CG-67) and the Thomas S. Gates (CG-51).
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