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Service Leaders Rethinking Navy and Marine Corps Education

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04.25.2018 at 09:49am

Service Leaders Rethinking Navy and Marine Corps Education by Ben Werner – USNI News

A clean sheet review of how the Navy educates sailors and Marines is now underway, with results expected to alter the way Department of the Navy training is conducted.

The wide-ranging study is to explore how the Navy can upgrade its education methods in order to maintain a competitive edge at a time when adversaries are increasing their technical know-how, according to a memo released Monday by Thomas Modly, undersecretary of the Navy.

“Continuous learning — and sharing hard-won knowledge – represents a combat-proven key to victory for our naval services,” Modly writes in his memo announcing the formation of his Education for Seapower study. “Our flagship educational institutions, including the United States Naval Academy, Naval Postgraduate School, Marine Corps University, and Naval War College, along with the many outstanding national colleges and universities associated with the Reserve Officers Training Corps, have long and well served the nation in educating our future leaders. They inculcate not only the finest sense of honor and integrity, but also creativity and deep rigor in thinking about the future of naval warfare, especially in times of great change.” …

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