 My name is Ensign Catherine Kirkwood and I'm the anti-terrorism officer on board USS Chaffee. So we had a very good base in Rules of the Road coming from our BDOC and JOD classes. We learned a lot about ship handling fundamentals. We also did a lot of practice with ship driving in the simulator and practicing our positions within the bridge team. JOD simulator training is very comparable to real-life scenarios. I felt a lot more confident in driving alongside ships while also dealing with crossing vessels. Due to my simulator training. A moment of success as a bridge watch stander I can attribute to my JOD and BDOC training was one of my first times pulling out of Pearl Harbor. I was a bridge watch stander with the navigator and it was a full power run so we were going max speed. It was really incredible going as fast as we were in crossing situations and feeling totally confident in the situation and understanding what maneuvers we need to make to remain safe.