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Binding: Perfect Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9781892343062
ISBN: 1892343061
Label: Oak Tree Press
Manufacturer: Oak Tree Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 184
Publication Date: February 29, 2008
Publisher: Oak Tree Press
Sales Rank: 439313
Studio: Oak Tree Press
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Destroyer veterans release short story collection Fifteen members of the Secret Scurvy Dog Society relate their own accounts, many humorous and some pointedly not, of life at sea on U.S. Navy destroyers during the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Cold War. Beginning with the question - Why the Navy? - and ending with reflections on how their experiences during hard lives at sea came to be considered cherished memories, these men, both officers and enlisted, tell the quintessential Sea Stories of the latter half of the 20th century. Scurvy Dogs, Green Water and Gunsmoke is the first joint effort for these writers, most of whom have been published previously in the Tin Can Sailor, the journal of the National Association of Destroyer Veterans.
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Scurvy Dogs, Green Water and Gunsmoke: Fifty Years in US Navy Destroyers, Volume 2
"Destroyers, now there's the real Navy!" Gobbell's review comments about Marines and SEALS might not be exactly gospel, but it's close enough. Learning about Tin Can Swabs, you learn they're pretty much grunts in a metal and aluminum AO (Area of Operations) and steel foxholes darting around the worlds ponds. They got some really cool rifles too!
Shoot clean into next week.
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Pick an ocean, any ocean. Add a few Navy destroyers, throw in a healthy dose of salt spray, then brace yourself. Such a concoction breeds unique ship crews who are renowned as colorful characters with irreverent lifestyles. Now some of their own have jumped ship and penned these clever sea stories.
These tales, some taller than others, offer unique insights into life aboard the "greyhounds of the sea." A good read.
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