Introduction

This book is an intellectual journey. It is based in the fundamental Middle-American values and opinions, good and bad, of the happy days of the fifties.

These values and opinions are dragged kicking and screaming through a rich and varied set of experiences as a young man, amazingly, is nurtured and tolerated by a usually hidebound navy.

The journey ends with summaries about Russia, US Military policy and strategy, and the prospects for the social and political turmoil in America.