NFunky, you pose good questions as I can see from some days now...
Reading them, brought me 5-6 years behind.
I looked into my harddisk and found some documentation from back then. I was a member of the Seawolves without command functions, what I did really like was the battles
Looking back at the documentation, those were fantastic times. We even had some real submariners, even active submarine officers around...
People i remember are Fish (sort of guru), and many others that I don't read in this forum.
I can say that I was lucky in picking an excellent virtual navy back then (Seawolves), it had the complete hierarchy of a navy. Actually head people were rare or nearly unpossible to talk with heheheh, very resembling after all...
If you haven't considered before, you might want to do some "research" on what is around now as virtual navies, it might become some great experience
I am not really off-topic, because if you want to understand TMA well, and if you're lucky to find some good instructor/instruction around (for example in a virtual navy), this will boost your skill with much less effort (IMHO).
To tell you one (no joke) I was instructed on Sub Command TMA by a real, active, submarine TMA Officer. Very rarely the questions were so detailed to need an answer like "we're going into classified stuff".
Then it's up to the student to adsorb as much as possible, but you seem to have the requisites to me, as you pose the right questions.
I am unable to make any sort of judgement on the virtual navies around now, but I know some people here are members of the one or the other
