Yes, that's an excellent question. It speaks exactly to how we force-generate sailors. To be very precise, in the naval reserve the job is to force-generate individual sailors trained to a certain level of readiness, while an army reserve will often train individuals for deployment and also small subunits, small teams.
The naval reserve is different in that regard. The training takes two forms in the navy. In the first form, the occupation training, every sailor or officer will be trained specifically in the skill sets required for their occupation at sea or ashore. The second component is what we call the refresher or regenerative training, and this is specifically done to mitigate and prevent the loss of skills between the periods when reservists are employed at sea. The training delivered in naval reserve units is mostly focused on that regenerative training.
On the other hand, the occupation training is delivered through the broader naval training system. Regular service people and reservists alike are all plugged into that system. The training we deliver in naval reserve units is fairly robust in that regenerative training. Quite uniformly across the country, units will have small boats and will have fairly simple desktop simulator systems to simulate bridge watchkeeping or navigation or machinery control. Some units have marine diesel trainers and that sort of thing, which is all in an effort to make sure that we have the most current skills possible.
When we need other skills that we can't deliver, such as firefighting and damage control—a core skill set required at sea—we send our sailors to the navy's firefighting damage control schools, for example.
Broadly, that is the nature of the training we conduct in the naval reserve units.