<p>Bill,
to put in a detail that Jasperdog left out,
every single engineer that graduates from here graduates with an Engineering License. i don’t quite understand how you can say that the USMMA isn’t valuable to the US Navy. that honestly baffles me. i’m a 1/C mid right now and i can promise you that if you put me and 5 of my classmates on any ship (excluding running a reactor, of course) with any of the conventional powerplants we could get the plant up and running in a few hours. you’d be hardpressed to find even the 15 most brilliant engineering mids at USNA that could EVER get the ship running.
so how can you say that running a ship is not valuable to a naval officer? that’s like saying it’s not important for a lifeguard to know how to swim, or it’s not important for a pilot to know how to fly.</p>