Publisher's Synopsis
With incredible clarity and in vivid detail, this 10-year Navy veteran, explains and involves you in the action of the times ... the Cold War in the Pacific Ocean during the mid to late 1950's from Boot Camp and basic training, to service aboard a U.S. Navy Destroyer: the USS Theodore Edson Chandler (DD-717). Enjoy liberty ashore in Foreign ports in this first book of his trilogy; From Sand to Sea and Distant Shores. Be his shipmate as you:
- Endure tear gas, an oil fire and nearly getting drowned during Basic Training.
- Become one of the crew of a five-inch gun turret, when a buddy loader drops a live projectile while firing.
- Experience A ONE IN A MILLION HAPPENING! the in-your-face terror of a full-blown typhoon that threatens to capsize your ship as a shipmate gets washed overboard ... Then back onboard again!
- Learn everything a destroyer does from Gunnery and sub-chasing to stopping weapons-smuggling in the Formosa Strait.
- Enjoy exchanges of American life styles and customs, as you live and eat with shipmates from New York to Tennessee.
- Almost panic, when not only officers from your ship, but the Captain too; decide to throw you overboard at night into the black-as-ink waters of Subic Bay, P.I. and you can't SWIM!
You won't have to have been or be, a sailor nor even in the Navy to read and understand this book! Explanations, foot notes and "Backgrounds" will make it clear for you to move through without stumbling (if you can catch your breath!)...
