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Anti-Submarine Warfare Training Center Under New Leadership

Navy NewsStand

Story Number: NNS080328-15
Release Date: 3/28/2008 3:13:00 PM

By Lt. Patrick Drain, Center for Surface Combat Systems Center Fleet Anti-Submarine Warfare Training Center Public Affairs

SAN DIEGO (NNS) -- Fleet Anti-Submarine Warfare Training Center (FASWTC) recieved a new commanding officer March 5, in a ceremony held at the Admiral Kidd Inn on Naval Base Point Loma.

Capt. Eric B. Moss relieved Capt. Marcus B. Yonehiro as commanding officer.

Capt. Stephen W. Hampton, commander, Center for Surface Combat Systems, gave the ceremony's keynote address, comparing the training conducted by Fleet ASW Training Center's staff to the preparations football teams make to be ready for the "big game."

Hampton used the metaphor to drive home the point that although nothing goes exactly as planned, solid training and continual practice provides the Navy's Sailors the tools to be ready for any worst case scenarios. He thanked the Fleet ASW Training Center staff for their hard work, and praised them for the superior quality of training they provide to their students.

Yonehiro had commanded FASWTC since April 2006.

"It was a very rewarding tour," Yonehiro stated. "It was a pleasure to work with the professionals at Fleet Anti-Submarine Warfare Training Center. The chiefs and officers were a tremendous group of hardworking instructors, and I wish them the best."

His next assignment is chief of staff for the deputy commandant of Naval District Washington in Washington, D.C.

Fleet Anti-Submarine Warfare Training Center has undergone vast reorganization and modernization efforts, decreasing its footprint in the San Diego area by more than 40,000 square feet while still providing state-of-the-art training to its students across a variety of warfare areas.

"I have to say, it is a pleasure taking command of a place like Fleet Anti-Submarine Warfare Training Center, which has an outstanding reputation for training excellence," said Moss. "I want to continue to be forward leaning to get a pulse on fleet priorities and assure we are teaching our students to be familiar with these before they leave our command."

Moss added, "I am looking forward to impacting young Sailors who are heading to their first ship assignments. I would like them to make the connection between what they are learning and the Navy's Maritime Strategy to help them see the overall vision of the Navy. I want to continue to maintain a high level of technical excellence, but help them see the "why" behind what they are learning, especially in anti-submarine warfare because of the renewed emphasis placed on it."

Moss' operational background includes tours in two nuclear guided missile cruisers, USS Virginia (CGN 38) and USS Mississippi (CGN 40). He was also the executive officer of USS Ingersoll (DD 990), and served as the chief staff officer in Destroyer Squadron 15 in Yokosuka, Japan. Moss also commanded USS Vandegrift (FFG 48), a unit of the U.S. 7th Fleet forward-deployed to Yokosuka, Japan.

Ashore, Moss served at the Naval Nuclear Power Training Unit in Ballston Spa, N.Y. He attended the Naval Postgraduate School, graduating with a master's degree in Systems Engineering. Moss most recently earned a Master of Science in national resource strategy after attending the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in Washington. He has served at the Pentagon on the joint staff and on the Navy staff.

For more news from Center for Surface Combat Systems, visit www.navy.mil/local/cscs/.