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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Finally! A Destroyer Sailor's story of the "Tin Can" Navy.,
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This review is from: The Circle: He Pledged To Serve With Duty And Honor. Instead He Fought Betrayal On A Ship Bound For Danger. (Mass Market Paperback)
I was stationed on two FRAM-II Destroyers. I am a "Blue Nose", a "Shellback", and earned a Combat Action Ribbon while a crewmember on the USS Ozbourn (DD-846) off the coast of Vietnam. I am tired of all these glorified ("gun-decked")stories and movies about submarines and aircraft carriers, usually written by retired admirals or authors who were never even in the military never mind the navy. This story tells it like it is. I've often times wondered how young Ensigns dealt with the crap and stayed sane never mind got advanced and survive to make successful Navy careers. I truly enjoyed this book. I'm reading "The Med" now and I have also got "Passage" standing by. Only a "Tin Can Sailor" could have written this book. The terminolgy and slang terms are right on. I can understand how a person who never served in the Navy would have a hard time with this book. Perhaps Poyer should have a glossary in the back of his books to help decipher Navy jargon. I highly recommend this book, especially to former Navy anchor clankers. To Mr Poyer, from one ol' Tin Can Sailor to another, I bid you fair winds and follwing seas.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The closest thing to being there,
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This review is from: The Circle: He Pledged To Serve With Duty And Honor. Instead He Fought Betrayal On A Ship Bound For Danger. (Mass Market Paperback)
David Poyer's seminal naval work The Circle takes you directly in to the life of a young naval officer. Of all the books I have read about my profession, US Navy Surface Warfare Officer, it is the closest thing to actually being there. The long hours of watch and work, the mistakes you make being over-tired, and the lessons you learn from men who have spent their lives at sea are all contained within this book. In addition the, Poyer paints a vivid image of the environment of shipboard life and the perilous sea. Reading this book makes me cringe and want to return to sea duty as soon as possible.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Authentic, character driven,
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This review is from: The Circle: He Pledged To Serve With Duty And Honor. Instead He Fought Betrayal On A Ship Bound For Danger. (Mass Market Paperback)
I'm not an ex-Navy man, so the constant Navy jargon left me sometimes only vaguely understanding what was going on. Nevertheless, I had the sense that this was what I would really experience if I were hidden, watching action from the back of the bridge of a Navy destroyer, and I valued that authenticity. But the setting was only a pallate for what was the deeper part of the book: men striving with tremendous stress and moral dilemmas. How do they cope, what do they think and do? Mr. Poyer is a keen explicator of human nature. After reading this novel, you'll feel as you had been there and struggled as the characters struggled.
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