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The article focuses on the use of Navy Mission Essential Task Lists (NMETLs) and Navy Warfare Training System (NWTS) by the U.S. Navy to improve its performance. The NWTS is a continuous improvement engine and is used to generate readiness assessments and develop ideas for future improvements. NMETLs helps a commander to achieve the objectives of a mission and is used for readiness reporting, concept development, and systems design and procurement throughout the U.S. Department of Defense.

Comments on a United States Navy lieutenant's essay on leaving the service. Advantages of life in the Navy over civilian life; Family as a cause of concern; Job satisfaction as a motivator; Issue of leadership and commitment.

The article presents information on two training regimens of the U.S. Navy that seem older than the sea itself: bridge watches and division officer tours. These timeless duties at sea turn regular folks into professional naval officers. Bridge watches teach about command; division officer roles teach about leadership. Every opportunity to stand the watch on the bridge builds a hunger for command. The formal conduct of the bridge watch team, the terminology, the procedures, the routine, the choreography, the contact closest-point-of-approach and recommended actions reports.

Focuses on the questions raised about the cost-effectiveness of using the P-3 Orion airplanes of the United States Navy for tracking land-based targets. Lessons learned from using the planes in missions in Iraq and Afghanistan; Plans to re-assign the planes for tracking submarines.