In the commercial maritime and offshore industries, where worker safety and competency are crucial, effective training practices are an absolute must. While hands-on, in-the-field learning will always ...

A simulation student was complaining to his company office that the simulator he was working on that day was not very realistic. He went on to say that the ship drove too easily, the visual picture ...

Few events capture raw aggression more than pugil sticks, a rite of passage for Marines at boot camp that involves two recruits trying to clobber each other with padded pole weapons whilst their ...

WILLIAM A. CREELMAN, Chair, U.S. Maritime Administration (retired), received his B.S. in nautical science from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. He held a Coast Guard First Class Pilotage License for ...

With the evolution of the virtual-training environment, the Marine Corps recently relocated an F/A-18C Hornet Tactical Operational Flight Trainer to Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan. "The ...

This appendix discusses the background and uses of microcomputer desktop simulators. In this appendix, a basic microcomputer desktop simulator consists of a microcomputer with hard drive, a single ...