Naval Education and Training Command: Warrior Toughness

Every U.S. Navy Sailor, enlisted or officer, could face life-threatening situations from combat or casualty. Each and every one needs to have the ability to persevere and perform under both immediate danger and long-term stress, both on the job and at home.

Warrior Toughness (WT) is a holistic human performance skillset that enhances the toughness of our Sailors with a focus on the pursuit of peak performance. The system emphasizes coequal development of toughness in the mind, body, and soul. WT combines performance psychology skills with character development, and teaches the Warrior Mindset, whose concepts were initially developed by members of the Naval Special Warfare community.

Designed to increase the Navy’s warfighting capabilities, WT is an enabler of the Culture of Excellence as part of the first line of effort – Developing a Lethal Warfighting Force. In place at Recruit Training Command since October 2018, the curriculum is now incorporated across all Navy accessions at Officer Training Command Newport, the United States Naval Academy and the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps. WT will improve the performance of Sailors under stress and throughout their everyday lives, building lethal warfighters ready for the next mission.

Video by Sgt. Morgan Burgess

Faces of the Underwater Recovery Team 23-3VN

Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency

July 26, 2023 | 2:06

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency's (DPAA) 23-3VN Underwater Recovery Team is recapped in a video production highlighting their growth as individuals, a unit, as well as, their use of many methods, operations and skills utilized throughout their mission in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Service members from the U.S. Army 7th Engineer Dive Detachment and the U.S. Coast Guard Regional Dive Locker West and Pacific combined skillsets and techniques with DPAA and one of its underwater archaeologists with the support of the Vietnamese Office of Seeking Missing Persons to take on the unique underwater recovery mission. They searched for six of the remaining 1,244 Americans unaccounted for in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam over a span of 75 plus days. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Morgan L. R. Burgess)