Allen R. Ardoin looks on. Antoine T. Oliver takes time to help his daughter Lyric T. Oliver tie her shoes. Weapon systems are more powerful, dependable and accurate. Communications and satellite technology has grown at light speed, and a revolution in business affairs has driven shipboard efficiency to new levels. Concepts like network-centric warfare are tomorrow's reality.
New doctrines address the shift from open-ocean combat to warfighting from the sea.
Everything is different. If you've been on shore duty during the last few years, you may not have noticed the huge push to change the sea-going culture. IDTC is the training and certification cycle that ships, submarines and aircraft go through prior to a six-month deployment. Through the years, that cycle had grown heavy with inspections and placed a burden on Sailors. Some people are uneasy about the scope and speed of these changes - that is human nature.