 Chasing pirates and drug traffickers may seem fun, but boarding unknown vessels with potential threats is serious business. Sailors at Naval Base San Diego are learning the proper techniques to keep them safe at the non-compliant boarding visit board search and seizure course. The reason why this train is effective at creating boarding members. We teach them fundamentals such as shooting, tactics, climbing. These are going to need to effectively conduct that mission, effectively get on the target and carry out that mission. All through A school and C school I was told that females didn't do VBSS, that they couldn't do VBSS, and I kind of made it my vendetta at that point that it was going to be something that I accomplished. Check out All Hands Magazine online in the upcoming weeks for a more in-depth look into the VBSS course.