Ninety-Day Wonder: How the Navy Would Have Been Better Off Without Me
Year: 2023 Language: English Author: Stephen Davenport Performer: Stephen Davenport Publisher: H.H Bonnell Audio codec: M4B Audio bitrate: 64 kbps Description: Ensign Stephen Davenport was the most severely under qualified of the Ninety-Day Wonders, the derisive term for commissioned officers in the Naval Reserve with only ninety days of training, all of which were on dry land. For his final navigation exam, he actually plotted a course that landed a fictional destroyer somewhere in the Sierra Mountains. Nevertheless, in in August of 1953, he reported to his first assignment aboard the USS Vermillion. He would be overseeing the First Division for training in amphibious landings.
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Stephen Davenport - Ninety-Day Wonder How the Navy Would Have Been Better Off
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Ninety-Day Wonder: How the Navy Would Have Been Better Off Without Me
Language: English
Author: Stephen Davenport
Performer: Stephen Davenport
Publisher: H.H Bonnell
Audio codec: M4B
Audio bitrate: 64 kbps
Description: Ensign Stephen Davenport was the most severely under qualified of the Ninety-Day Wonders, the derisive term for commissioned officers in the Naval Reserve with only ninety days of training, all of which were on dry land. For his final navigation exam, he actually plotted a course that landed a fictional destroyer somewhere in the Sierra Mountains. Nevertheless, in in August of 1953, he reported to his first assignment aboard the USS Vermillion. He would be overseeing the First Division for training in amphibious landings.
Stephen Davenport - Ninety-Day Wonder How the Navy Would Have Been Better Off
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