SAN DIEGO – A 2000 Mount Miguel High School graduate and Spring Valley, California, native is currently an instructor for the U.S. Navy training sailors in operating the technologically advanced Littoral Combat Ship (LCS).
Operations Specialist 1st Class Mia Green has been an instructor at the LCS Training Facility (LTF) since June 2018. The LTF, the first surface warfare training facility to provide integrated bridge and combat systems tactical scenario training for Sailors serving on board an LCS, is operated by the Center for Surface Combat Systems’ (CSCS) learning site Fleet Anti-Submarine Warfare Training Center in San Diego.
“Training, along with teamwork, is critical in this community of minimum manning,” Green said. “I take great pride in knowing that I have had a hand in molding a Sailor to the LCS way of life.”
OS1 Green teaches a four-week capstone class for tactical communicators which focuses on training scenarios that mimic real world situations that may occur.
“Sailors serving in the LCS environment demand a higher quantity and quality of training,” explained Capt. Brandon Bryan, Fleet Anti-Submarine Warfare Training Center's commanding officer. “LCS class ships drive a new approach to individual, team, and unit-level training to accommodate the minimum manning and rotational crewing concepts. This new approach drives the need for the shore-centric Train-to-Qualify (T2Q) and Train-to-Certify (T2C) concepts, which rely heavily on high-fidelity shore-based trainers. Our simulators integrate LCS command and control, propulsion control, and bridge control systems to support individual training in a team environment at the basic, intermediate and advanced levels.”
Green obtained a bachelor’s degree in Organizational Management from the University of La Verne and her master’s degree in Business Management from Trident University.
“I always knew that I wanted to go to college after high school,” she explained. “I didn’t have the grades for a scholarship, but I knew the U.S. Navy offered funding for education. My stepfather was in the Navy at the time so he guided me every step of the way.”
Green has been in the Navy for 18 years. Before arriving at the LTF, she served aboard USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19), USS Milius (DDG 69), Fleet Maritime Patrol Mobile Operation Control Center FOXTROT, and USS Spruance (DDG 111).
“At the LTF, we prepare sailors to execute a wide variety of missions around the world,” Bryan said. “They leave our training facility ready to stand their watch and execute the Navy’s mission.”
Green is the daughter of Sandra Savage, who resides in Spring Valley, California.
Headquartered in Dahlgren, Virginia, CSCS develops and delivers surface ship combat systems training to achieve surface warfare superiority. CSCS headquarters' staff oversees 14 learning sites and detachments located throughout the continental United States, Hawaii, and Japan and manages and operates a Naval Education and Training Command (NETC) training division in Rota, Spain. CSCS provides over 538 courses, awards 114 different Navy Enlisted Classifications (NECs), and trains over 38,000 Sailors a year.
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