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From: Greg Surratt <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] HELP!!
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 06:29:33 -0400
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 23:30:24 +0100, Caroline wrote:

>I have just returned from an excellent party on board the USS Winston S
>Churchill. Looks like the next 4 days of the Festival here in Portsmouth are
>going to be fun.

You guys "over there" sure know how to throw a party when you invite a
US Navy Warship as a guest! I had a great time in De Grasse, France
when we took USS Comte De Grasse over for the Count's birthday
celebration several years ago.

>I asked about the training manuals (strange Limey woman asking weird
>questions <g>) but the sailor I asked had never heard of them :-(

The Navy still uses the same training manuals. See:

http://www.advancement.cnet.navy.mil/

They are great learning aids. Each course also includes a "Training
Manual" which is a series of questions. What makes learning so easy,
is that you can read through the course with the manual open. Read a
question in the manual, read a couple of paragraphs in the course
until you find the answer to the question, then read the next question
. . .

I only wish I had the time . . .

Greg

>Caroline Gurney
>Portsmouth, UK
>
>
>> Dale wrote:
>>
>> <<I submit as a model of manual type training the Navy courses of many
>years
>> ago. Lee Hoffman may remember some of them. I was always amazed at how
>well
>> untrained people could go through one of those Navy Manuals and be almost
>> immediate experts. <snip> I don't know whether the Navy uses the same
>system
>> or not anymore but I am sure, if they do, that it is highly computerized>>

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