"The youth of today know next to nothing about life in the navy," says Chen, who joined the navy when young because he yearned to go to sea. "Many who enroll at the academy still don't learn enough about actual life at sea, and the goal of the struggle, so they eventually drop out."
「現代年輕人對海軍的生活、面貌幾乎一無所知」，少年時因嚮往海上生活而投身海軍的陳潮州說，「許多孩子即使進了官校，仍然得不到足夠的資訊，去瞭解他們日後將身處的環境與生活，以及奮鬥的目標，所以不少學生在官校時期就流失掉了。」