If You Can't Pay Attention, Take Notes: A Navy Brat Reflects on Bratdom, the First Line of Defense, and Why You Don't Wash the Chief's Coffee Cups - Couverture souple

Watson, Shelia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0578458195 ISBN 13 : 9780578458199

Editeur : Tidal Creek Productions, 2024

Synopsis

There's an old saying that the difference between a fairy tale and a sea story is that a fairy tale starts off with "Once upon a time" and a sea story starts off with "This is no shit."

Here in these pages is a heaping pile of "This is no shit" and it starts with the notion that in the Navy, the cardinal rule is: If you can't pay attention, take notes.

When does this rule apply? In the Navy, all the time: when training for war includes playing pinochle, when you're mistaken for an NIS agent, when Robert Mitchum (yes, that Robert Mitchum) stops by your barracks for a beer or two, when advancing in the Navy is one damn thing after another.

The fun frolic through the sea stories of a Navy "lifer" (seen partly through the eyes of his Navy brat daughter) includes a series of adventures and misadventures when he commandeers an Army jeep in Vietnam, discovers that some side work in New Jersey was mob-related, and commutes to the ship via helicopter.

Hear that? They're piping us aboard. Let's weigh anchor and get the sea stories underway!

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Tidal Creek Productions
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0578458195
• ISBN 13: 9780578458199
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 124
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible