Prepare for incoming T. As a former North guy I miss standardization of SOPA/SMAC, but think the South's way of international (TOE) and SAQ is hands down better. NWA did very little international training. IE: Check out on the whale I had OE to Asia but none to Europe because the whale did not go there at that time. I get a charter there and the capt. is a known f'up and had I not studied up our international section, picked the brains of other capts that had flown the DC10, and had a S/O that had flown the C5 over there, we would have had to fill out at least a half dozen ASR's. Northwest just assumed that everyone or at least someone on the crew had been to these different theaters.