How A Boiler Room Mentor Changed Everything

Send us Fan Mail You can hear it in my voice when I tell this one. The USS Belleau Wood out of Sasebo, Japan was my first command, and it took a kid with a GED, a chip on his shoulder, and a lot of bad habits and forced him to grow up fast. I’m talking steam ship life in the pit: heat, watch rotations, casualties, sarcasm, pride, and that brutal reality that nobody cares how tough you act if you can’t stand the watch and carry your weight. I walk through how I showed up thinking I alre...