![]() I was very fortunate in that regard.īut I sometimes wonder what kind of experience I would’ve had if the Navy had chosen to put me in a different job and a different place. That is where I spent the rest of my enlistment. About a year later, I received a plum assignment to be on the staff of All Hands magazine, the Navy’s fleet-wide personnel publication. That’s what I was prepared for.Īs things turned out, I was assigned to be a journalist straight out of boot camp. I had heard that journalists in the Navy were rare and that it was unlikely that I would get to do any journalism work while I was in the service. The Navy gave me no indication of where I would be or what I would be doing. At the time, I thought the Navy would be a better choice.Įither way, it appeared that my career as a journalist had been put on hold for several years. ![]() ![]() ![]() I signed up for four years in the Navy because I had received a draft notice ordering me to report to the Army for duty. Navy in the fall of 1970, I had already completed a bachelor’s degree in journalism and had worked professionally as a reporter and editor. ![]()
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