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Dolphin_Hunter said:CSE Chief, considering the Single Naval Combat Operator was put on hold do you think this project will run into the same problems? (ie more expensive training costs)
I am not certain what all of the issues were with a common operator trade. But in our case, much of our common tasks and training lends itself to a common trade. Each trade performs identical tasks on different equipments. The difference being the knowledge required to apply common skills to different systems/equipments/technologies. This concept was confirmed by the work done under MOSART and now being carried on by OSIP (Occupation Structure Implementation Plan) likely to start with the first common tradesmen in 2010.
As for training costs: There is a trade off between training and flexibility. If we trained everyone to do everything, we would have an extremely flexible organization although it would require many years of training to achieve that. The other way is to reduce training to the point that each sailor can only do a few things. This would result in a very rigid organization, a requirement for more bunks than ships normally have and if one person is unavailable, the mission is in jeopardy. The idea here is to find a balance which best serves the Navy and the sailors.