The failure to produce enough submarine officers, though, is the source of greatest worry to academy officials and the Navy as a whole.
He completed a five-year commitment as a naval submarine officer in 2004.
Actually, I think a group of submarine officers could quickly become quite proficient at moving the ship around the oceans.
We have a superb simulator on shore, and all of our future submarine officers learn the profession in there.
In June, he went again, this time adding to his schedule a meeting with retired submarine officers.
By late July, the appeal to former submarine officers was paying off.
We had a long discussion about various things, including techniques and the training of British submarine officers.
Many of his fellow submarine officers left the navy then, but Saratov had decided to stay.
The superintendent of the Naval Academy, a former submarine officer, sat down.
His marriage up to that point had been a troubled one, not an uncommon problem for nuclear submarine officers.