About The Author
Jerry Robert Ryan
Jerry Robert Ryan is a former U.S. Navy Commander who was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. After graduating from Arkansas State College with a degree in Radio and Television Journalism, he began a career in broadcasting before joining the United States Navy during the Vietnam era. He started as an enlisted Journalist Seaman and spent 23 years on active duty and retired as a Commander in 1989. Ryan has served in multiple countries and worked closely with high-ranking naval and military leaders, facing both the challenges and opportunities within the Navy. After retirement, he pursued entrepreneurial ventures and later worked successfully in real estate with his wife Judy. Today, he enjoys retirement in Crossville, Tennessee.
His mission is to share a personal perspective on Navy life as a Public Affairs Officer while also showing the role that chance, faith, and perseverance can play in shaping one’s life journey.
His vision is to inspire others to trust life’s path through this faith based military memoir true story book. He is a testament to the Navy’s slogan, Join The Navy and See The World.
His mission is to share personal perspective on military life during the Vietnam era while also showing the role that chance, faith, and perseverance can play in shaping one’s life journey.
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THE NAVAL OFFICER WHO NEVER WENT TO SEA
What if the very path you chose to avoid danger led you straight into it? What if your careful plans failed from the very first step? In The Naval Officer Who Never Went To Sea by Jerry Robert Ryan, that’s exactly what happens with Ryan. A young man’s plan to avoid war quickly falls apart when his first assignment sends him straight into the Vietnam War. It is one of the top Vietnam War armed forces memoir books that shows the honest and real-life twists of a naval officer who never went to sea. Ryan is sent to the Mekong Delta, working alongside Army units in the middle of the war he tried to escape. In this true story Navy officer life story book, Ryan spent part of his Navy career in Army commands, not only in Vietnam but also in South Korea and Germany. Many armed forces memoirs about Vietnam War focus on combat or life aboard ships at sea. This story is different because it highlights the unexpected career path of a Navy officer who spent his entire career in unique assignments around the world without ever serving at sea.
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