The Navy is standardizing how it screens and qualifies commanding officer candidates.

Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jonathan Greenert has approved an instruction to create a written qualification program to be shared among all officer communities, according to a post on Navy.mil.

Until the new guidance was issued, it was up to individual officer communities to decide how they approve candidates.

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