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I was an up-from-the-ranks type. After 9 years as an enlisted, including 5 1/2 years on the cruiser USS BAINBRIDGE (CGN25), I was commissioned (I was then a CPO). I then served to Lieutenant Commander as a nuclear propulsion maintenance specialist, mainly at shipyards, but with a tour on USS NIMITZ (CVN68) as a principal assistant to the Reactor Officer. My last tour was XO of the honor crew of Historic Ship NAUTILUS (SSN571) in Groton, CT.