Neither an Officer Nor a Gentleman

In Neither an Officer Nor a Gentleman a pair of twenty-something young men serve for four years in the U.S. Navy from 1967 to 1971 enjoying the adventures of an enlisted mans life on aircraft carriers and at Virginia Beach during the Vietnam War. They experience everything from the heartbreak of Memphis at Dr. Kings death to the exhilaration of carrier life during tours of duty in the Western Pacific and the Mediterranean.The boys cant seem to stay out of trouble as they go from coast to coast sea to sea enjoying almost every minute. They drink their combat-filled way from San Diego to Honolulu to Japan and the Philippines. They drown their liberty hours in beer from Spain Italy Greece Malta and Crete. They eat anything put in front of them: monkey meat water buffalo and even chicken legs miraculously blessed with shin bones. They discover that prostitutes in Olongapo although harmless are as unavoidable and as irritating as ants at a church picnic.And they learn to deal with hard work sadness fear loneliness and boredom ⁠- yet they wouldnt have missed it for the world.