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Originally Posted by JamesT73J
That's an extremely healthy attitude. Is that representative?
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Probably not. Our midlevel officers (LT, LTCDR) for a large part don't know what they don't know about USW tactics. My current job is to help rectify that. I overstate the case because I see this stuff every day, but our officers are nucs first, submariners second. I think recent events (read: groundings and collisions) have proven the danger in that.
The US Submarine Force is the best community in our Navy, and the best sub force int he world, but even we have weak points. Right now that is learning to operate in new environments. We are improving our tactics, weapons, and methods at a very strong pace, and the great thing about nucs is they learn fast. We're still better at operating in ANY waters than any short-term enemy is, and at this point that is what is important. The new BYG-1/BQQ-10(ARCI) system is probably the technical side of answering our problems there, and the methods, tactics, and training to deal with high contact densitites are already in place.