<p>fair enough.
however i still have a hard time in seeing how having useful shipboard knowledge isn’t valuable to the Navy.
i know that i’d much rather listen to a leader that knows what the heck he’s talking about than someone that sat through several leadership seminars. that’s all. i’m not advocating butting in and stopping the enlisted ranks from doing their jobs, but my goodness. but i would think they’d appreciate an officer that knows how to do what they do and is willing to get dirty without just getting in the way over a motivational speaker any day.
i have many friends at USNA that will make fine officers i’m quite sure, however, they will all fully admit that they are absolutely unprepared for shipboard life. that is a travesty.</p>