Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

Three War Captain: Naval Warfare On, Under and over the Sea
Three War Captain: Naval Warfare On, Under and over the Sea
Three War Captain: Naval Warfare On, Under and over the Sea
Ebook286 pages4 hours

Three War Captain: Naval Warfare On, Under and over the Sea

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

4/5

()

Read preview

About this ebook

This book is intended to present a summary of my life in the navy where I fought at the tip of the sword in three wars and served on the sea, under the sea, over the sea and in the sea after Vincennes sinking. My service has given me experiences few people including naval officers have seen. There were always challenges but I never suffered boredom.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherXlibris US
Release dateAug 12, 2014
ISBN9781499055993
Three War Captain: Naval Warfare On, Under and over the Sea
Author

Capt.C. Kenneth Ruiz

C. Kenneth Ruiz was born in Rock Island, Illinois, July 11, 1921. He graduated from the US Naval Academy in June 1942, with the course reduced to three years because of WWII. In thirty years of naval service, he fought in four different areas of sea warfare starting with surface warfare in the cruiser USS Vincennes (CA-44). He was at his battle station on the captain’s bridge when she was sunk by Japanese naval gunfire off Guadalcanal during the Battle of Savo Island on August 9, 1942. After Vincennes sinking, he volunteered for submarine duty and reported to USS Pollack (SS-180). In Pollack he served as diving officer, battle station officer of the deck, and engineering officer; and completed eight war patrols. He spent his twenty-first, twenty-second, and twenty-third in almost continuous combat. In 1946 Captain Ruiz completed flight training as a fighter pilot and in 1954 deployed to the Korean War in USS Tarawa as executive officer of Fighter Squadron 102. Starting in 1967 he commanded the attack aircraft carrier Bon Homme Richard for two Vietnam War deployments. She was awarded a Navy Unit Commendation for the each deployment and a Presidential Unit Citation for the 1967 deployment. He had command assignments at the tip of the sword in three wars and served on the sea, under the sea, over the sea, and in the sea (as a result of the Vincennes sinking). Captain Ruiz is married to the former Judith Arbogust and has one son and three grandchildren. He spends his retirement between a winter home in Las Vegas, Nevada, and a summer home in Campbell River, Canada, “the Salmon Fishing Capital of the World.”

Related to Three War Captain

Related ebooks

Personal Memoirs For You

View More

Related articles

Related categories

Reviews for Three War Captain

Rating: 3.9545454545454546 out of 5 stars
4/5

22 ratings1 review

What did you think?

Tap to rate

Review must be at least 10 words

  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Another tale of a young America, this time at war with their cousins, the English. A story of American Privateers in the War Of 1812, and the notorious Dartmoor Prison where many were imprisoned and some died. The protagonist is the son of the hero of the two books on the Revolutionary War, Steven Nason and he is cut from the same cloth as his father.

Book preview

Three War Captain - Capt.C. Kenneth Ruiz

#PQabook_preview_excerpt.html|[rGVk4>DRC %IFPʌ !3|fw){Gd6צBeǏ{ݛf;''ϊMqvQqvTŷ1QzY|t7ţ~8z|Tn\wSuqMXf]/?O/~<|Ϯx^\,zu|i_pÿU=Y^XU>ji]!}ݵعn+,hMxjj,}UĮ:M| mڛb_AxbQڗP6߮^ge=Vmb Ň&*cW?Bb[C]]7E6C]?]8պ 2[Hܷzv>j_T~J ,`^$q*|}نJv/Xozn幄"CCnvǃoj|7;æYQQPwbj3N˗//^=_>{"?zfG%O'o^<͛׾yC[w.v~?m|Wn+>9q5?8m!>r\5 ŻZKQꋷux>^7}Xc/y/RoBzeǿ.]'Ox]9l;?}!%N Ek96/>e5i_й]x@~,23euSZ?2>tN2Vz-_,@ Ys_BlC,Z#A?vn/.Vu}r|{ lV0G <|2Ƣ }=ஃ<Fւ{-?N5ЊA 1hc@1}QODTvhQaZ [n|s,ɂO:W u%O$gL߆WKqq d!!nMhLe#\Q֮d pNKWy 8/JȰT~`oXXW0lZ,&g饞㿁QPm5tezCq}tXF2yei=&"Ą y ([7!5gα4S+,[ }.@_W.qi`u|Ū<~yj(`er5 ƩhxlEC\p"&˪NmSc=":`_j۸c2Iaz80u?"dt'GMYLt޵WŰKJ`4Al:a15uUqt-Dx9>ܹ Q :,SszVo3ҜCnsatʪ2sɗ %ʄ,w?֎12ZuoQ!L5 ъD|4znz춲7WHJ&'.0 j{瀝d=B5%(#ei!|c3^s -f3ٛq$f%^|E !8G#1ȤtUM''R-̈́Xp󥣷DMְ(#>0…a:v.l}i\[g+_aqY~H]GL|x@V%.k<L'AGbkG͚,zc)| NC Ðl\C=xdXD6"<#d=CZ)Mi4H)@mdp '1vGD|"&o29_q r3T*yP̛.ڞ#!HJ$L{FLnd F97&ցVm#u1 1Ie_'1]TB78݈O]{s9W$^hXCgI ,!fE?zaHbu8ЦlPP[\Θ,n]bP~殰R 9b rAUki1cR&Xįm0@tIK]ƶk[L©0WRbjkdcZ6Inb 5wcT¨heIDǞ@Ea/]i=).`6g2Ў_ dsa7rL| ^N:Kyf%擙<6FZ+#M%oe-rD Q ތr~3W*lLf9Yb ++r7ŦUGv:zi50ut$"ȭL$W۴ggꩴ`X[bf'\"GmH 9c)ăŽ%dS ;:R=\2kFsS7߆e褸fʶVuMAև`Eǫ!B> Yp%dHgF_.}|wTTShղ N" 2/5&6S/k@pw#l.UiVraz(|Mح wVfJhI#Boa@YJO@!~lMT* ]?nsRzj=Є-|BAд. Ťy]e]FLEwxzƺt")7 xy%>T-sU E7gmDI\' =s6Y]^.O^?fYu)wHGj٧9ph]ؘV6iQRTsyܮTp aN‰YDD˔ҫPs_FlDlRdv&aK ˱'%5?Xr=bn47~kȢ3CA`xmU{zd9_z+EHG *BP#PMCZ*~tJh!go|DA _PfMYtrvIڋ'+Lug|/K:gihɶ2&)tcnw, b *D{emT&̂)7{_f "/WP-E%Qne-.H xm%a n~H`LGnU-LnRqE 5y1?i:o@s# %eթ$J|uSMʄ) F3Uz1jo@V)EFJq[@nfCR&X”>،>R!TJk='`,y"\3iɬA;Xc|lNzr".ЃrX_$3;`hl;V$ͺKLDY`THOyy#2ƀ}h\”C66 $5^;nl%c]i:mN3$˪0^؁Si|njGA>{:vsS'//zz.keg̚$'mx;JaOaQkrd<62m]׎[]hoҜ`G8k  dQ%nppf&NH- 1wUȇHP.4!Wf+K4p4}53 QAm5f2{C+f6_Ta#tq|4LK[0RxeV5Yׇ*an} /w YM:oy,ͥAw?"mI]/;yT`pTg tU&)/!:K\o$"S̕S_|M9`_..~ԞEVA?U$9y*USvJLjk )WI2RYBE֊JE߭᥶E8I}:/"u ZձRBWJ _4d擈+X1x~bneXHY3ozCTLٯzq"3=OX<0oPAŖ)x2i̬0bjqͩn5٧RA%`ũ~wޜ(=%Wn9COviY?΂7p$[>u]WT.C.eKzdMjV_zcO f!jtn$[=y纆Ւnr%ٜc)0;R;"0w\2jP|;NegJQtÑ+O ~o7i.n#HHL ƚ>*׸?bޖ)B R^tG @vh*^QεgG'OŠa#wX^K{ά!f7AeۅN͜Os ?R8WΉcwR ÇϦjHIb1Z#%NnyZ8$ Ҋ;HٙZyB7>|WPr.?M'N !q>Ρr<Jn='=⠸1v`KCg{Mmq⸛&?fv#ޘ<諮_׮됲 mWkQ|fzvt DK̔KSKDT ^^Ram]H4 S0$k͌w)\*[(,'I'"D9I“27Jv$һ~\U("7CkXfS|4S`: f>UA Q5=2TI_hp6D5$ qB' UAY{D"Z+$r`> {YAI$HqVir8ֻq;60S ;fG;r^ο7X[\\QIM*%s^YU`%)W-CZ^U gCH' v'qvS JǮOoIQ(e[lT=ic>I;8Wʸ587,)H3 s3n<<5%q7Oҭ)2w&vo!x4&EZR25\)yL#Y{IP~ ,"m=3 a/,clPfx QqktDNӏ?/@AC R4x#};rf2S& oXUG%+գ(/<^ܚI"J5?,EaC1M َ2k|\]ףK_ӳS3;n@ 'k>@UWe j#}fn9Ǣ9 zO/[%tnՑ8s6k:ZܑL>CKԄ!E\R@"(56w>ON6,eMf).2nX9<)P~C^F^GKJ;I_~#h˲SN Z?+ΡH[{7@@_#479IBEm_8܏x% N*MYn3Ǧ\xQoxLX%q<+JKKS}Yu;+?:k13鼶t.{Cߏ`xǛ%Wq\ Gy *, `ЕL70 Oݴʖ4"ٖOkDYqi형mb0`g/,/$bwCg!oՐ^3;x4M/$<0ZnГڶK6fP8EUNͰWVif T0DlkwYq?܃_ 4vגla-U膭M?gm`&F°nU +z4ٖACQc"d*~Aw {$_Na/W9zypF8 9= u%|EIŔқ -a#tκXO)o:Hw\pˮU%Nz}M {0$܄bF5+\Y#asVk2a– q~oZS|p5f9ɤ- 7|HM*jMxnTnyMsX3i/t> BՆnrU*JB鍀JgjTV_CW"j{ 97}BS^0Ȋt g.9TVe=l؆/\;Fv*}R+>ݒ2,v݈$UV̅jwhv/O_>E[]183Dc{3Hh1+Mxn7 Lm{KF~+7 Cb{1jfNV'_N%]
Enjoying the preview?
Page 1 of 1