Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.
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My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.
I grew up in a Navy family.
When I was 17, I was told I had the choice of enlisting in the Navy or going to jail, so I spent the next three years in the Navy.
My father-in-law was a nuclear-submarine captain. My father was in the military.
My dad was a Navy munitions officer, and by the end of his career, he was a specialist in nuclear weapons.
I've had lots of things that didn't work out, like TV shows. You learn a lot through mistakes - I learned that you have to be the captain of your ship. Actually, I own my ship.
Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.
I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.
I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.
I was influenced by many, many different people in my student years, and I was always, I guess, immersed in a Navy environment, and so, obviously, that had a big impact when I decided what I wanted to do was go and be a Navy pilot. I was very familiar with the Navy community and felt very comfortable with it.
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