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CAPTAIN A Sea Story

By
John G. Denham

(213 pages)

Reviewer:  Robert Grimm

Overall Rating: Four Stars: Highly recommended. An excellent book.

CAPTAIN is a good read for navy and former navy people only because the humor, use of navy slang, double meanings is superb but non-navy readers will have no idea of what is being said and some of the situations described and the humor, while everyday events in navy life, are definitely for adults only.

That said, CAPTAIN kept this reviewer with the book in his lap till completed. It is relevant that the reviewer did serve three deployments in the South China Sea in the second half of the 1960s, so there was no problem identifying with the situations and events. For instance, the relationship between Mr. Decker and Denise was very real and except for her untimely loss, very typical. Many of us went through that. Similarly, the policy of BM 1 Barney Schmidt was right on. It is also quite relevant that the command of Commodore Ardwin Franch immediately prior to his promotion was in command of USS HANSON (DD-832) on which I served those three deployments, the first, May-November 1965 under him, although as an EMFN and EM3, my exposure to him was very limited.

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