When I'm teaching, I try to relax, make sure that I'm presenting the material that the students need to learn, and I keep it simple. Let me correct myself. I keep it as simple as possible

.I enjoy teaching. I especially enjoy teaching the maintenance. When I'm teaching maintenance, I know that I'm teaching the technicians below me to someday be my replacement. Some of the people that I'll be teaching I know someday will be Chiefs also and will be passing it on.

When we teach the operation, we first teach the theory behind how it works that student will understand what he's doing. After he understands what he's doing, then we go down to a lab where there is a training unit set up with the simulator and student sits in front of an actual console and operates it as if he's on the ship.

We're teaching to the operator, we're teaching the fundamental parameters of each system. An example, when we teach the racks that have all the equipment, we teach how they interface. The SYQ-13 computers interface into the plotter, printer, detect sonar, fathometer, doppler velocity sonar, radar, wind indicator, gyro, ship's degaussing coil, gps, and loran.