Join the Navy and Discover the World By Karl G. Heinze (237 pages, photos 76) Reviewer:  Dr. V.H. Schumacher Overall Rating: Three Stars: Recommended: a solid effort.   This book recounts one young officer's transition from college life to that of a naval officer and his experiences while aboard the USS SAMUEL B. ROBERTS (DD-823) from 1953 to 1955. The author paints a detailed picture of the ROBERTS' around the world cruise, which included port calls in places such as Pusan, Korea; Hong Kong, Midway Island, Sasebo and Yokosuka, Japan; liberty calls, times in dry dock, the Crossing the Equator ceremony and the transition from Pollywog to Shellback, Singapore, Naples, Gibraltar...and home gain to Newport, RI. Readers will enjoy the many personal comments and insights especially so if they also rode destroyers during the Korean Armistice period when the navy was and was not in its war time mode. While reading this book, this reviewer revisited many of his own experiences during that same time period when he made the same cruise aboard a Fletcher Class Can. Reviewer:  Robert F. Grimm Overall Rating: Three Stars: Recommended. A solid effort. The book is a definite must-read. It is a first-person journal of Mr. Heinze's around-the-world cruise in late 1953--early 1954 in USS SAMUEL B. ROBERTS (DD-823) from Newport. This reviewer enjoyed three WESTPAC deployments in the second half of the 1960s in a DD so many situations and events came to mind and were very similar. Words like "CUMSHAW", "YARDBIRDS", Mary Soo, Hi-Line and many others brought back good memories. The book describes well the culture of DD and NAVY life both on and off the ship. Of particular interest to this reviewer was the cultural differences between the author's Korea era and mine, a generation and a war later, in the same part of the world, on and off the ship. Also, the author saw an Olongapo City far different from the one we saw...ours was lively, vibrant and relatively clean. Two minor and one personal complaint: a. The author almost always gives the time with the word, "hours". A generation later the Tin Can Navy had all but dropped that word and simply gave the time with the number. "Hours" had been pretty well relegated to the Movie Directors from Southern California who never served anywhere anyhow. b. A map showing the route of the 'round the world cruise would have been very useful. c. The author gives a grand total of 1/2 of one paragraph acknowledging the mere existence of we snipes. I wonder if he ever figured out where propulsion, the water in his coffee and the fan over his rack got the energy to make them run.   Availability: $19.95 plus shipping http://www.virtualbookworm.com For a signed copy please contact Karl Heinze at: kgheinze@aol.com