Interwar gunnery qualifications resembled modern warfare-officer credentials: they identified professional preparation rather than loyalty to one class of warship. Guns remained central to destroyers, cruisers, patrol craft, and capital ships, so promising officers commonly studied both gunnery and torpedoes. Before radar fire control and automated data handling spread widely, accurate shooting depended heavily on trained personnel entering and interpreting information by hand. Completing a gunnery course therefore showed broad command preparation without proving that its graduate opposed carriers or submarines.
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Gunnery qualifications were not battleship partisanship
Gunnery and torpedo courses are presented as broad professional training in a fleet where weapons direction mattered across many ship types.