Navy Accidents Boost Interest in US Naval Academy Training

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Lt. Devan Gurecki remembers feeling uneasy the first time she set foot on the bridge of a Navy ship. All she knew about warships she had learned in officer candidate school classrooms. Suddenly, she was a lookout on the bridge and giving directions.
“I literally walked on board my ship the first day, and they threw me on the bridge, and I was like, ‘wait, really? There’s no qualification except for my ensign bars? This is it?’ And I had never d