Ninety-Day Wonder How The Navy Would Have Been Better Off Without Me
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Ja
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Nein
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Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
28.11.2023
Verlag
H.H. Bonnell, PublisherSeitenzahl
88 (Printausgabe)
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1372 KB
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1. Auflage
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Englisch
EAN
9780976925552
Grab your life preservers, sailors! Ensign Davenport is on the bridge.
Ensign Stephen Davenport was the most severely underqualified of the Ninety-Day Wonders, the derisive term for commissioned officers in the Naval Reserve with only ninety days of training, all of which were on dry land.
For his final navigation exam, he actually plotted a course that landed a fictional destroyer somewhere in the Sierra Mountains.
Nevertheless, in August of 1953 he reported to his first assignment aboard the USS Vermillion. He would be overseeing the First Division for training in amphibious landings.
The Vermillion' First Division was manned by deckhands who could do things he had no idea how to do - like maneuvering a winch to drop a truck into a landing craft bobbing in the waves thirty feet below without killing its crew, or getting a landing craft on and off a beach through huge surf in the middle of the winter. Davenport just called out orders , and he didn't always feel confident in that either. He fell for dangerous pranks by the crew, permitted an inebriated sailor in his underwear to ride a horse up the gangway, and almost caused a collision at sea. Though he served for only two years, Davenport's time in the Naval Reserve was bizarre, incredible, and absolutely unforgettable.
At times hilarious, other times scary, Ninety-Day Wonder is the riveting account of dangers, triumphs and fundamental lessons learned aboard a ship by an inexperienced officer among far more experienced sailors.
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