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Ron Fontaine/U.S. navy photoThe new Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Mullen, left, is greeted by the Senior Enlisted Academy director, Command Master Chief Ralph Rao, on July 28. Looking on is the first Turkish Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy, Necmettin Kocak, far right.By SMSGT. D. EGERMIERStafff, Senior Enlisted AcademyThe U.S. Navy Senior Enlisted Academy (SEA) continued through 2005 to educate selected senior and master chief petty officers from across the Navy in areas of leadership, management, and communication.This year it continued aswthe standard of excellence in the Navy enlisted community, graduating 412 students. The Navy is rapidly changing how it educates and trains Sailors, and the SEA is on thecutting edge of that change. The Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy, Terry Scott,center, participates in change of command ceremoniesSteven luskiewicz replaced fQr the senjor Enlisted Academy on Aug. 12 at Build-Cominand Master ChiefCommand Master Chief Ralph Rao as director in August.SEAing 1112, Naval Station Newport.tions.participatedmschool and to speak to the The academy had many class this year. Formernumerous joint force train- military leaders from around MCPONs,andcurrenting initiatives. The first of the world attend as students. MCPON Terry Scott also vis-these was the Professional They hailed from places like ited the academy to share Military Education confer- Colombia, Lithuania, New time with the students and ence consisting of all Zealand and Turkey, to address their concerns.Department of Defense ser- include the first ever TurkishRecently, we were alsovice school directors, includ- Master Chief Petty Officer of honored tQ have chjef Mas. ing the German Luftwaffe the Navy. Additionally, (er Se of the Al, Forceand the Canadian military many countries came to Gerald Murray pay a visit.school leadership.view the SEA and learnHeld at the Coast Guard about its curriculum andFinally, in 2005, workCPO academy in Petaluma, operations. These included began on new SEA class-Calif.,theconference Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, rooms located in Perry Hall.allowed all service schools Peru, and Colombia.These new, state of the artan opportunity to address Former Chief of Naval learning environments willproblems in military educa- Operations Vern Clark and allow the SEA to provide antion and to benchmark on current CNO Mike Mullen even higher quality educa-new programs and opera- both arrived to tour the tional experience.
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