The Ghost Ship Mutiny

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Pub Date 10 Apr 2018 | Archive Date 30 Jun 2018

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This is a true account of events aboard a US Navy ship at a difficult time in history—the height of the Vietnam War in 1969. American social unrest was widespread in big cities and college campuses. While President Nixon claimed to have a plan to end the war, he was secretly expanding it into Cambodia causing death and carnage. The US Navy aircraft carrier, USS Constellation, is finishing an eleven month war deployment and will return home for a shipyard overhaul and training period before redeploying.

As the carrier’s communications officer, the author is responsible for the communication traffic of a small city, as well as holding the codes to be used together with the captain’s for any nuclear operations. This young Navy pilot will experience some very unique events during the ensuing eighteen month turn-around period. Racial problems, drugs, crew morale, long periods away from home, and the deteriorating public attitudes toward the war are worsening onboard. The new commanding officer has some novel ideas about handling the worsening problems, and the communications officer tries to help.

The carrier crew unhappily finds it is not immune to what is happening in US society. Anti-war activities against the ship and crew develop quickly upon their return to homeport. To make matters worse, the captain becomes unduly suspicious about certain conditions on the ship. After many twists and turns, the situation finally appears to have settled down, only to abruptly change.

This is a true account of events aboard a US Navy ship at a difficult time in history—the height of the Vietnam War in 1969. American social unrest was widespread in big cities and college...


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After starting this book and finding several factual errors in facts of when events occurred I considered not reading further. I checked to see who published the book. It appears to be a self-publishing house; I recommend they hire a few editors.

The book reads like a personal diary and not a historical work worth perusing. The author appears to be the cog that made everything on the ship run while everyone else, from the president on down were drunks, power hungry or ignorant. Reading on I finally quit at about the half way point.

As a retired Sailor, I would not recommend this book as an accurate picture of the Vietnam era Navy.

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It was okay. I have read other bio's by Vietnam vets and this one falls a bit short. The author should have spent less time expanding on the lack of leadership of the CO (who is never named so its irrelevant) and more stories about life on a carrier

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