Ninety-Day Wonder: How The Navy Would Have Been Better Off Without Me Davenport Stephen

"What was I going to do with my B.A. For his final navigation exam, he actually plotted a course that landed a fictional destroyer somewhere in the Sierra Mountains. in literature: gather the sailors around me just before taps and read Faulkner to them as they fell asleep?"Ensign Stephen Davenport was the most severely underqualified of the Ninety-Day Wonders, the derisive term for commissioned officers in the Naval Reserve with only ninety days of training, all of which were on dry land.

He would be overseeing the First Division for training in amphibious landings.Once on ship, Davenport quickly learned that while he held authority in title, respect was less easily learned. Nevertheless, in August of 1953 he reported to his first assignment aboard the USS Vermillion. The Vermillion' First Division was manned by deckhands who could