Virginia Beach, VA — Intelligence Specialist Seaman Adam Wright, from Arab is a recent LifeSkills graduate, NAS Oceana Dam Neck Annex.

The overall mission of the LifeSkills curriculum is to inspire apprentice-level sailors to have good decision-making paradigms when faced with issues involving suicide prevention, sexual harassment, equal opportunity and overall decision-making in general. The content itself is divided into primarily, personal financial management lesson topics, interventional training and Navy core values.

The program is taught by Navy military training instructors who provide leadership, training and professional development of accession-level sailors prior to their arrival to the fleet. The training uses several scenario-based questions then selected courses of action, which subsequently leads into a specific lesson relating to one of the previously mentioned topics. For many of the new sailors, these classes provide them with skills as they begin Navy life.

Wright is the son of Russell Wright and Jennifer Durham. He has been in the Navy since Sept.