Navies have always trained predominantly through on-the-job experience at sea. For much of my career, we were able to send people who had the maximum amount of training to sea. We made sure that the crews we sent to sea were trained probably well beyond the level that was required.
As we look at this today, we need to take some of those experienced sailors off of the ships and put them into the training institutions in order to ensure that we can continue to deliver the sailors we need for the future navy. I am comfortable that the level of quality of the crews we are deploying today is at least as good as it has been in the past. The talent among our sailors is remarkable, and we have a very robust sea training staff on both coasts to make sure that the quality level is sustained throughout.