More Detail Information: ¡El Capitán! | The Making of an American Naval Officer (Kindle Edition)
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In 1958, Frank Gamboa became a initial Mexican American from Owens Valley, California, to connoisseur from a United States Naval Academy. His memoir's concentration is his veteran growth as a naval officer of a line from 1958 to 1988 in a U.S. Navy's aspect crusade community. It highlights his duties, hurdles and opportunities during some-more than 17 years of sea avocation in destroyers, a cruiser, and 6 amphibious warships handling in a Navy's Second and Third Fleets; and in visit and extended deployments in a Sixth and Seventh Fleets during a Cold War.
¡El Capitán! portrays a leadership, management, technical and seamanship skills compulsory to attain in shipboard billets trimming from pision officer to autocratic officer and squadron commander, in ranks from ensign to captain. It describes Gamboa's opening as a initial Mexican-American naval aspect crusade officer to authority a vital warship as a Commander, a initial to authority vital warship as a Captain, and a initial to authority a squadron of amphibious warships as a captain.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #552094 in eBooks
- Published on: 2011-08-17
- Released on: 2011-08-17
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
By Frank Gamboa
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