Question:Commander; Not being the nuke navy type, I still found ‘Rise to Victory’ thoroughly engrossing. I spent many years aboard ‘targets’ and find many of your situations quite familar to us surface types. Great reading. Looking forward to the next one. Fair winds and following seas. BZ. BMCM (SW) Answer:Dennis, I have a special respect […]
Question:Sir, I finished Pride Runs Deep, almost done with Sink The Shigure(10 pages left), and have Rise to Victory on tap ready to start reading it. I’m not much of a book worm, but they definitely hold me fast. I served aboard the Ulysses S. Grant SSBN 631(Blue) and loved my ship and everything about […]
Question:I just finished,”Rise to Victory.” While I enjoyed the story, I found the treatment of enlisted men by officers, e.g. swearing at them and belittling them to be excessive. I was a QM3[SS] aboard the USS Bream [SS243] during the mid ’60’s. While not everyone got along with each other, we all respected the fact […]
