These adventures are associated with training in the Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC), and commissioned service in the Pacific on two ships, the USS Gardiners Bay (AVP-39), a small seaplane tender, and the USS Hamilton County (LST_802), a minesweeper tender. Some unlikely adventures are documented in "The Mother of all Journeys", "The Wardroom Rat", and "Typhoon T". What great experiences in the 1950's US Navy.