SAN DIEGO – Chief Petty Officer Matthew Donovan, a native of Charleston, South Carolina, wanted to travel and experience something outside of his hometown.
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Now, 18 years later, Donovan is stationed with the Navy Service Support Advanced Training Command (NSSATC) San Diego, a new training command tasked with improving fleet readiness.
“I like the ability to develop sailors and watch them grow, knowing that I am making a difference in the fleet,” said Donovan. “It is also exciting to see fleet changes starting in the classroom.”
Donovan, a 1999 graduate of Middleton High School, is a hull maintenance technician at the training center located in San Diego.
“I am the lead instructor for the Navy's preventative and corrective maintenance program,” said Donovan.
Donovan credits success in the Navy to many of the lessons learned in Charleston.
“A life lesson has been to do everything to the best of your ability,” said Donovan. “Life is short, so love what you do every day, if you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life.”
NSSATC was established in March 2019. It develops and delivers advanced education and training opportunities that build personal, professional, and service support competencies to achieve fleet readiness. Headquartered at Naval Air Station Oceana, Dam Neck Annex, Virginia, the command executes training at 10 globally dispersed learning sites with military and civilian instructors and staff personnel.
NSSATC is responsible for Advanced Administration courses, Advanced Logistics courses, Navy Instructor Training Course (NITC), Command Career Counselor (CCC), Command Managed Equal Opportunity (CMEO) Manager, Drug and Alcohol Program Advisor (DAPA), and Alcohol and Drug Abuse for Managers and Supervisors.
There are many reasons to be proud of naval service, and Donovan is most proud of developing relationships with people over time through mentoring and teaching.
“I am proud of positively affecting junior sailors with career and life advice,” said Donovan.
A key element of the Navy the Nation needs is tied to the fact that America is a maritime nation, according to Navy officials, and that the nation’s prosperity is tied to the ability to operate freely on the world’s oceans. More than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered by water; 80 percent of the world’s population lives close to a coast; and 90 percent of all global trade by volume travels by sea.
“Our priorities center on people, capabilities and processes, and will be achieved by our focus on speed, value, results and partnerships,” said Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer. “Readiness, lethality and modernization are the requirements driving these priorities.”
As a member of one of the U.S. Navy’s most relied-upon assets, Donovan and other sailors and staff know they are part of a legacy that will last beyond their lifetimes, serving as a key part of the Navy the Nation needs.
“Serving in the Navy means being part of something bigger than myself and making a positive influence in the sailors that I get the privilege to work with,” said Donovan.
“I like the ability to develop sailors and watch them grow, knowing that I am making a difference in the fleet,” said Donovan. “It is also exciting to see fleet changes starting in the classroom.”
Donovan, a 1999 graduate of Middleton High School, is a hull maintenance technician at the training center located in San Diego.
“I am the lead instructor for the Navy's preventative and corrective maintenance program,” said Donovan.
Donovan credits success in the Navy to many of the lessons learned in Charleston.
“A life lesson has been to do everything to the best of your ability,” said Donovan. “Life is short, so love what you do every day, if you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life.”
NSSATC was established in March 2019. It develops and delivers advanced education and training opportunities that build personal, professional, and service support competencies to achieve fleet readiness. Headquartered at Naval Air Station Oceana, Dam Neck Annex, Virginia, the command executes training at 10 globally dispersed learning sites with military and civilian instructors and staff personnel.
NSSATC is responsible for Advanced Administration courses, Advanced Logistics courses, Navy Instructor Training Course (NITC), Command Career Counselor (CCC), Command Managed Equal Opportunity (CMEO) Manager, Drug and Alcohol Program Advisor (DAPA), and Alcohol and Drug Abuse for Managers and Supervisors.
There are many reasons to be proud of naval service, and Donovan is most proud of developing relationships with people over time through mentoring and teaching.
“I am proud of positively affecting junior sailors with career and life advice,” said Donovan.
A key element of the Navy the Nation needs is tied to the fact that America is a maritime nation, according to Navy officials, and that the nation’s prosperity is tied to the ability to operate freely on the world’s oceans. More than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered by water; 80 percent of the world’s population lives close to a coast; and 90 percent of all global trade by volume travels by sea.
“Our priorities center on people, capabilities and processes, and will be achieved by our focus on speed, value, results and partnerships,” said Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer. “Readiness, lethality and modernization are the requirements driving these priorities.”
As a member of one of the U.S. Navy’s most relied-upon assets, Donovan and other sailors and staff know they are part of a legacy that will last beyond their lifetimes, serving as a key part of the Navy the Nation needs.
“Serving in the Navy means being part of something bigger than myself and making a positive influence in the sailors that I get the privilege to work with,” said Donovan.