The skipper of USS Stockdale (DDG 106) asked for an NPRP library during the ship's precommissioning workup, since he felt these books would help shape his crew into the cohesive fighting unit it is destined to become.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] After months of living in government quarters, members of an LHD's precommissioning unit (PCU) were starting to move aboard ship.
11) Among other things, the team recommended that the Air Force (1) establish a single office for language advocacy in the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of the Air Force for International Affairs, (2) increase foreign language proficiency pay (FLPP), (3) capture "self reported" language data and enter it into the personnel data system, (4) establish an Air Force goal that at least 10 percent of officers develop and maintain minimum language skills, (5) include language-proficiency data on officer career briefs for promotion boards, and (6) concentrate on precommissioning programs to find (or train) officers with language skills.
Her husband, Steven, a machinery repairman aboard the Momsen, has been away in San Diego, for training, and in Maine with the ship's precommissioning unit.
