After 5 years of united cross-discipline and cross-specialty education, the first group of chief officer candidates for various aviation departments of naval ships has successfully finished their study at 3 different colleges and was assigned to naval ships on July 18. This has put an end to the history in which the Chinese naval aviation department has no "regular graduates".

In recent years, as the shipboard aircraft's role in naval ship's anti-submarine operation, operations against hostile land forces and naval forces becoming more and more important, it is high time for us to cultivate a group of highly qualified chief officers for aviation departments of naval ship who are well versed in the knowledge of naval ship as well as aviation.

The chief officer candidates for aviation departments this time entered the Dalian Naval Academy last March. Before that, they had studied three years and a half in the Naval Aeronautical Engineering Academy and the Naval Aviation Academy, where they finished study of general knowledge courses and aviation courses. Each student, having piloted airplanes for over 130 hours or above, has got some practical experience of aviation.

In the Dalian Naval Academy, they studied systematically 30 specialty courses, including organization, management, navigation, operation and tactics of surface ships, and the theory, performance, operational skill and operational command of armaments, which the chief officer of aviation departments should grasp.

Through one year and a half's cultivation, they have acquired the basic quality for a junior commanding officer on a surface ship. In the past five years, the students have learnt 80 courses, which across 6 disciplines, and involves over 20 related specialties. Recently they have successfully passed the united examination by specialists and professors from three colleges they had studied.

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