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For several decades now, the Navy has sent a few 

 oceanography-specialist officers to graduate education 

 at civilian schools for oceanography. For example, I 

 went to Catholic University here in Washington, my 

 Executive Assistant went to Scripps, one of my 

 Commanding Officers to Florida State, my predecessor 

 went to the University of Washington. The large 

 majority go to a very rigorous, specially tailored 

 double-masters degree program at the Naval Postgraduate 

 School in Monterey. Monterey's rigorous, high quality 

 program is the best prescription to meet our general 

 needs. But, I trust we can continue to afford the 

 opportunity for a few students each year to achieve 

 graduate degrees at other prestigious universities. It 

 does provide the Navy with a few different viewpoints 

 on technical issues, and it develops lifelong ties to 

 civilian experts in academia upon whom we must call. 

 It is a method to ensure a degree of peripheral vision 

 for the Navy and gives academia visibility, however 

 informal, into Navy oceanography. This is a program I 



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