FEATURES OF THE PROFILE AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF FUTURE OFFICERS OF THE NAVAL FORCES OF THE ARMED FORCES

The professional activity of a naval officer suggests increased demands to their professional training. The priority area of educational policy is the training of highly qualified navy specialists (both civilian and military) in the system of continuous vocational education. The professional activity of Navy officers involves solving of management tasks in conditions of undefined problem situations connected with the search of information, its analysis, making best decisions and their proper implementation. The purpose of the article is to define the necessity to reform specialized and professional training of a future naval officer. The methodology of the research is based on the conceptual ideas of pedagogical and psychological research, which determine the development of society, the spheres of education, professional activity and readiness to perform professional duties. The main thing is a set of general and theoretical methods, supported by modeling and design. Scientific novelty includes the definition of objective and subjective reasons, which make it difficult to train specialists at naval educational institutions, emphasizing principles of content selection of specialized education, requirements to future navy officers’ professional education. Conclusions. At the current stage of the development of Ukrainian society, the navy officers’ training is one of the priority areas for improving the defence capacity of the country. Emphasis is placed on the increasing of the importance of the naval officer’s motivation as a professional in carrying out the responsible tasks providing the economic development and defense capacity of the country, significantly increasing the requirements to the formation of naval cadets’ educational and professional motivation of educational institutions in the process of specialized and professional training. Choosing the content of specialized education, taking into account the main points of the activity approach, vocational education – a competent approach providing a thorough specialists’ training at naval educational institutions, is appropriate