Author Paul Sherbo, CAPT USNR (Ret.), was commissioned into the United States Navy from the ROTC program at the University of Kansas and qualified as a Surface Warfare Officer. He served six years active duty in the Navy, including service in Iraq as the Navy’s Fifth Fleet representative to Coalition Forces in Baghdad. Before retiring as a Navy Reserve captain, he commanded several Navy Reserve units. He is a former newspaperman, was elected Chairman of the Colorado Federal Executive Board, and was chosen as Chairman of the Year of all FEBs in FY 2010.
At right – Here I am aboard the USS Monitor. Actually, a life-size mockup of the Monitor right outside the Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Virginia. Inside, the musuem is restoring the recovered turret of the civil war ironclad, which was lost in a storm shorlty after the famous Monitor-Merrimac battle. And to those of you who know me – no, I was NOT on the Monitor’s pre-commissiong crew.
At left – Message to Marx, Lenin, Stalin and the rest: We won.