It's Your Duty

Its Your Duty is a memoir about Gary A. Goeschels early naval experience showing he lived the sailors life at sea with astounding responsibility encountering danger and adventure. The book summons up stories revealing an image into an inexperienced sailors development and presents his reflections. Stories about his association with the men he served that forged him into the man he became. WWII experienced leaders gave lessons and guidance used mean talks and provided the consequences for the author not meeting requirements for him that resulted in embarrassments and painful incidents. The stories also include what a sailor wouldnt disclose in letters home. Not telling family and friends he could have died when confronting violent seas nor disclose more threatening dangers. A sailor wouldnt describe his drunken conditions and the mischief he made. The stories embrace the enlisted sailors point of view a depiction deficient in most naval histories.