People who go to sea and have healthy job qualifications come back feeling good about themselves. When they feel good about themselves, they perform even better. When we send our ships to sea, we see that morale is high. People join the Navy to do things, to provide, protect, and achieve. Beyond the Submarine Force's responsibility to the American people for providing survivable strategic deterrence, promoting democracy, and protecting our surface combatants, we also have the responsibility to make Sailors from men and women.
People come here to establish themselves in life.
In my opinion, the Submarine Force is by far the best place to do that in all the services. In the case of the fast attack submarine, they're not going to get any bigger - we're not going to be able to do anything to significantly improve the physical quality of life. That's not what's key. The key is to provide the best quality product that we can, given the physical constraints that submarine configuration imposes upon us. Technological advancements that can improve our surroundings should continue to be explored, and implemented where feasible and deemed to be of value.