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.
