Ep. 16: Gerry Roncolato on the U.S. Navy
School of War
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The Importance of Damage Control Training in the US Navy
The only really war training you get is on a shipment cruise. We don't teach at the Naval Academy, we don't teach Naval or military theory at all. There's very little about war in there. And so now the damage control, I know there are people who said after, and rightly so, after Fitzgerald McCain, that the damage control was very well done. That's part of that is the unique nature of damage at sea. You can't run away. You have to stay in flight. There is no alternative, and the sailors on both ships did extraordinarily good work. But to take that and conclude from that, that damage control training in the US Navy is okay, was
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