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Upon graduation, he was appointed as commander of a missile boat that specializes in anti-submarine warfare (the Navy ensures that future sub commanders serve on such boats first, as there is no better way to learn how they behave when confronting a submarine.)
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This makes pretty much sense.
How do other navies handle that? An ASW education is certainly standard, but do others also require their commanders to learn to hunt subs on an ASW vessel before they are allowed to command a sub?
Imagine this for our hobby:
Silent Hunter system requirements:
demonstrable experience of at least 200 hours of Destroyer Command