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NINETY-DAY WONDER: How The Navy Would Have Been Better Off Without Me

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Grab your life preservers, sailors! Ensign Davenport is on the bridge.


Ensign Stephen Davenport was the most severely underqualified of the Ninety-Day Wonders, the derisive term for commissioned officers in the Naval Reserve with only ninety days of training, all of which were on dry land.

For his final navigation exam, he actually plotted a course that landed a fictional destroyer somewhere in the Sierra Mountains.


Nevertheless, in August of 1953 he reported to his first assignment aboard t...