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My name's Lieutenant Kelly Bolt.
I've been in the Navy now for 11 and a half years.
And I'm a principal warfare officer.
My role as a PWO is to basically command all the
sensors and weapons on the ship.
I think being a PWO is possibly the
greatest job in the world.
The most satisfying thing is walking onto a ship and
knowing you are leading your team.
It makes you put yourself at high standards.
And it makes you uphold those standards.
And it makes you more professional, just knowing
that you have those responsibilities and people
have that reliance on you.
Well, the Navy's given me probably the greatest
experience of my life.
And that was spending two years on a US Aegis destroyer
effectively as a PWO.
The ship did some pretty amazing things.
We had quite a few deployments, including an
operational deployment.
The training that PWOs receive in Australia
is second to none.
We are high class warfare officers.
We are specialists in what we do.
We're going away from the idea of having to rote learn pages
and pages of information and go more into an adult learning
environment and look at the skills and go, what skills do
we actually need to be a PWO.
And let's concentrate on those practical skills of sitting in
the chair and fighting your ships to the
best of your ability.
The Navy, for me, is still a long term career.
The day I joined I said I'd stay in until I retired.
And, to me, that's still the case.
If I'm lucky enough, one day I'll be able to drive a ship.
We never stay still in the Navy.
We never keep doing the same job over and over again.
There's always new opportunities and new
experiences.
But I still feel that every morning I get up, and I'm
doing my job.
And I'm doing that for the country.
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