Anchors and Eagles

Paul L. Adkisson was just a naÏve kid when he left his parent's home, eyes set on distant horizons. Anchors and Eagles, his memoir covering twenty years in the U. S. Navy tells just how far those visions of distant horizons led him. Lacking any specific directions on life in those early years. Paul was a loose cannon, always looking for trouble - not a difficult thing for a sailor to find in foreign ports. Naval discipline did not come easily, and he never envisioned making a career of the Navy, but that is just what Paul did, eventually becoming a very successful leader of young, undisciplined sailors much like himself in the early years.

This book tells it like it was, an eye-opening variety of interesting sometimes outrageous, experiences, from the absurdity of the mountain of rules and regulations that servicemen had to follow to the sheer hedonism of leave, offering more than just a glimpse of a world like no other: the United States Navy.

It is a book that divulges, for the most part, many things that would normally remain carefully guarded secrets within the hearts and minds of most men and women who served.

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