

The purpose of the visit was to initiate this discussion by educating detailers, officer community managers and junior officers assigned to NPC and BUPERS staffs of the college’s mission, its value to the fleet, and why an NWC education is important to an officer’s career.

We have a responsibility to have a deliberate discussion on this idea of the role of education.”

“We still have a tendency to think that experience is what is best going to prepare us for the future as opposed to education. “My sense today is that, as a service, we still tend to undervalue education,” said Howe in a roundtable discussion with NPC and BUPERS personnel. The Navy published the strategy in 2013, which aims to provide a common framework – based on experience, training, education and personal development – for comprehensive and enduring leader development across all Navy communities. Naval War College (NWC) in Newport, Rhode Island, met with key Bureau of Naval Personnel (BUPERS) and Navy Personnel Command (NPC) leaders in Millington last week for a discussion on the mission of the college and its role in supporting the Navy Leader Development Strategy.
