Submarine Learning Center Excels at Training

Courtesy Photo | 170214-N-XX082-002 GROTON, Conn. (Feb. 14, 2017) Submarine Learning Center official logo. (U.S. Navy graphic/Released)  

GROTON, CT, UNITED STATES

02.06.2018

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Naval Education and Training Command

By William Kenny, Submarine Learning Center Public Affairs

Naval Education and Training Command (NETC) announced the Submarine Learning Center (SLC) earned six 2017 Training Excellence Awards (TEA) Feb. 6.

The annual awards program spotlights the continuity of quality and intensity of work across the entire range of training and support operations. The various functional areas evaluated contribute to NETC's mission of transforming civilians into highly skilled, operational, and combat ready warfighters.

"The entire NETC team is working hard to be better, faster and more effective in how we deliver training to the fleet to win in today's competitive environment," said Rear Adm. Kyle Cozad, NETC commander. “Our learning centers are continuing to provide our Sailors with the training they need as they progress through their careers."

In 2017, almost 30,000 Sailors graduated from the 806 separate individual and team training courses that SLC’s 1,032 instructors and staff planned, programmed, budgeted, and executed for undersea warfare enterprise mission readiness.

Capt. Andrew Jarrett, SLC commanding officer, lauded the efforts of the Groton headquarters staff and praised the work of the entire SLC team at training sites located across thirteen time zones in support of world-class submarine force training.

"There are a number of moving parts, to include programs and people, all of which must be constantly synchronized and adjusted, to best assure seamless delivery of world-class training to our submarine Sailors," said Jarrett. "These awards are a reflection of the hard work accomplished every day over the course of the last year.”

SLC will receive a TEA certificate for functional merit awards recognizing exemplary performance in 2017 for planning and programming, total force management, logistics management, curriculum management, training production management, and training support management. SLC scored at least 90 percent in each area, based on measurable criteria set by NETC staff and evaluated throughout the year.

“We live and work in a dynamic environment requiring continuous evaluation of every job, duty, and task submarine Sailors perform, while assessing the curriculum and tools we use to teach and train them even as we make timely and just-in-time decisions and determinations on where and how we need to move forward," said Jarrett.

SLC develops, assigns, and coordinates future undersea warfare training and education solutions and allocates resources to execute undersea warfare training in fleet concentration areas, including Naval Submarine School, Groton, Connecticut; Submarine Learning Det. San Diego; Submarine Learning Site Yorktown, Virginia; Naval Submarine Training Center Pacific Det. Guam; Submarine Training Facility, Norfolk; Submarine Learning Site, Dam Neck, Virginia; Submarine Learning Site, Whidbey Island, Washington; Naval Submarine Training Center Pacific, Pearl Harbor; Trident Training Facility, Bangor, Washington; and Trident Training Facility, Kings Bay, Georgia.

For more information about Submarine Learning Center, visit http://www.netc.navy.mil/centers/slc/.

For additional information on the Naval Education and Training Command, visit the NETC website: https://www.netc.navy.mil or http://www.navy.mil/local/cnet/. Follow us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/netcpao and Twitter @netcpao.

• Date Taken: 02.06.2018
• Date Posted: 02.08.2018 12:33
• Story ID: 265246
• Location: GROTON, CT, US