Fair Winds (A Novel)
Eddie J. Girdner 2015
Available on Amazon
Partly autobiographical novel based upon my time in the United States Navy (1973-77). I was stationed aboard a tin can (destroyer escort), the USS Richard L. Page (FFG-5). The ship was built at Bath Main around l967. The ship was later leased to the Pakistan Navy for some years. When it came back to the US, it was sold for scrap.
I went to San Diego Naval Training Center for boot camp and sonar school. Later stationed aboard the Page in Athens, Greece, then Philadelphia and Norfolk, Virginia. Mediterranean and Caribbean cruises.
I am very fond of sea cruises, but not necessarily in the US Navy.
Chapters:
Chapter One: Temporary Insanity
Chapter Two: The Redneck
Chapter Three: Brutality
Chapter Four: The Grinder
Chapter Five: Marching Party
Chapter Six: Father
Chapter Seven: Captain’s Mast
Chapter Eight: Sherry
Chapter Nine: Punjab
Chapter Ten: Simla
Chapter Eleven: Ringo Bar
Chapter Twelve: Naples
Chapter Thirteen: Underway
Chapter Fourteen: Reggio Calabria
Chapter Fifteen: Ravi
Chapter Sixteen: Coming to America
Chapter Seventeen: Navy Cop
Chapter Eighteen: Virginia Beach
Chapter Nineteen: Mayport
Chapter Twenty: Oklahoma, OK
Chapter Twenty-One: Francis
Chapter Twenty-Two: Incompatible
Chapter Twenty-Three: Gitmo
Chapter Twenty-Four: Haiti
Chapter Twenty-Five: Chillicothe
Chapter Twenty-Six: Morning Glory
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Newport
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Key West
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Old Home Place
Chapter Thirty: Northwest Passage
Chapter Thirty-One: Purple Mountain Majesty
Chapter Thirty-Two: Good Samaritan
Chapter Thirty-Three: Fuck-Up Division
Chapter Thirty-Four: Istanbul
Chapter Thirty-Five: Freedom
