Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
An Officer's Career in the Peacetime Navy
Author: The Navy Plans the Peacetime Education of Naval Officers
Author: Navy Officer Careers Handbook
Author: United States. Navy DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armed Forces
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The Naval Officer's Career Planning Guidebook
Author: Seven Ships
Author: John B. Mitchell, Jr.Publisher:
ISBN: 9781939472304
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
¿Underway. Shift Colors.¿Sail around the world with John Mitchell as he describes his at-sea and ashore adventures during a thirty-year Naval career encompassing the Vietnam War, the first Gulf War, and everything in between. Read his vivid portrayal of life aboard U.S. Navy warships during both conflict and peacetime as he relives his career from Ensign to Captain aboard seven ships, making seven extended deployments in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters of operation. Experience Mitchell¿s progression of responsibility, culminating in two ship commands coupled with the thrill of exploring exotic ports of call in both the Orient and the Mediterranean. Observe the awe and respect Mitchell exhibits for the Sailors who worked with and for him during those thirty years. Entertaining, informative, patriotic, humorous, and thought-provoking, this memoir takes you to sea for months at a time while avoiding the risk of becoming seasick!
Training of Officers for the Naval Service
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Naval AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval education
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Fair Winds and Following Seas
Author: Ronald VailPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 148173489X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
This book relates the military experiences compiled from a twenty-five year naval career of a small town boy whose elementary and high school endeavors were somewhat less than satisfactory, but who was given the opportunity, provided by that inconceivably destructive event, known as World War II, to redeem his poor educational activity and serve in the Navy reasonably successfully. The book follows his career as he rose from a very young and inexperienced Ensign to the rank of Commander. Early on, he acquired a specialty designation as cryptologist, dealing with codes and ciphers in the Naval Communications system. This book depicts the good times, the hard times, and the difficult times of the voyage to the top of the military organization in which he spent the biggest part of his Navy career. He spent many years in the field spreading the communication security gospel directly to the communication officers of various ships and stations. Finally, after 20 years of total service, he was assigned to the Naval Security Group Headquarters in Washington, D.C. as deputy to the head of the Communication Security Organization with oversight and management responsibilities over the field activities. Later, when his boss was assigned to duty at a field activity, he was elevated to the head of the organization. After about a year as head of the Communication Security Organization, he was given a very promising assignment as Commanding Officer of a newly established Naval Security Group command in California. As expressed in the book, this was a Camelot assignment. Shortly after World War II ended and very early in his career, he met and married his lifetime companion. This relationship produced six children, five daughters and a son, who survived a change of venue every two to three years and all became college graduates, including one daughter who was born with a physical disability denying her the ability to get around without assistance. All achieved exceptional success in their chosen occupational pursuits. He and his brides commandment that all the children must expect to stay in school at least sixteen years, was really very rewarding for them in their later lives. The book concludes with a comparison of his Navy life with the famous and well used Navy description of a hypothetically perfect sea voyage, Fair Winds and Following Seas.
Training of Officers for the Naval Service, Hearings ..., on S. 2304 ..., June 12, and 13, 1946
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Naval AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Navy V-12
Author: Henry C. HergePublisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1681621576
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 539
Book Description
A history of the Navy V-12 Program during World War II. The Program provided opportunities for young men whose families had suffered during the difficult times of the Great Depression. These high school graduates were offered the golden opportunity to attend colleges and universities. At the end of the program, more than 60,000 U.S. Navy and USMC officers had entered the armed forces for the war. Many, also entered the U.S. Naval Reserve in the post-ear period, and served in Korea and Vietnam. With photos -- 80+ pages of biographies of individual members of the program. Many include photos then and now.
Naval Officer
Author: Ray VershursPublisher:
ISBN: 9781420872026
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Val Fedorchuk was born sixty years too late. He entered the naval service as an officer intending to lead men and defend America. Four years of service in the peacetime navy were four years of molding, in which Fedorchuk evolved from a pants-on-fire hard charger to the most capable cynic onboard. He often wondered just how far he would go in the line of duty-would he really lay his life on the line? Alex Kurtis was man with a lot of past, but with no future. He had talent but no fulfillment. Everything was always easy for Kurtis. An expert marksman, fluent in several languages, with dazzling cerebral capacity, he spices up his life by going wrong. His mission is to take a ship, and Val Fedorchuk is in the way. When Kurtis takes a new assignment that sets him on predetermined collision course with Fedorchuk, the two men grapple with life's most fundamental questions of right and wrong, of the purpose of life. Their individual responses are a very telling statement of the mentality in a peacetime navy more concerned with individual careers than the defense of the country. Kurtis chose his destiny, and Fedorchuk's is forced upon him. Naval Officer is both a commentary and real-life portrayal of life inside the real navy-a life far different than that described by the so-called "thriller" novels. This is a story of the real people in the real navy,