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FAR AWAY BUT CLOSE TO HOME - VETERANS STORIES 2 |
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Surgeon : A doctor trained to do operations where a person is cut open.
Wavy stripe : Navy officers have stripes of braid on their coat sleeves. The stripes for Regular Navy officers are straight. The stripes for Reserve Navy are wavy.
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Not what you know,
but who you know My father was a doctor. He was a surgeon for the navy. Many of his patients were sailors on leave who were sick. He knew the captain of the submarine school at Gosport. And so when I volunteered to go to submarines, I got accepted. I suddenly found myself in training to be a very junior submarine officer. My uniform coat had one wavy stripe on the sleeve. 65 Words
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