How A Prior-Service Soldier Became A Navy Damage Control Leader

Send us Fan Mail He signed up chasing a straightforward goal: become a firefighter, earn college money, and build a future. What he got instead was a 36-year journey that ran through the Army National Guard, Navy boot camp in San Diego, damage control maintenance on small ships, a pre-commissioning build, a destroyer deployment in a world that was rapidly changing, and eventually the kind of senior enlisted leadership where you answer for everything the crew does. We’re joined by retir...