Steel Decks and Glass Ceilings

by Jim Jewell

Overview

In 1983 to continue the pursuit of command at sea, Jim Jewell, a Navy commander reluctantly accepted his assignment to be executive officer of the USS Yosemite, a destroyer tender. His previous assignments had been on combatants and his experience with tenders happened when the tenders were tied to a pier in their homeports.

Instead, the USS Yosemite would leave for almost seven months at sea on a deployment to the Indian Ocean. Ten days prior to his reporting aboard he was married. His wife was in San Diego, across the country from Yosemite's home port of Mayport (Jacksonville), Florida.

However, this deployment was different from his previous time at sea as women were in the initial stages of being integrated into ship complements. Jim had only one tour on shore duty five years earlier where he served with a female officer.

Yosemite was the first Navy ship with women in the ship's complement to spend extended periods at sea. Yosemite would provide maintenance and repair services to the carrier battle group off the coast of Masirah, Oman. Her deployment is a significant success story and provides an example of how to adjust to change successfully.

Jim Jewell's memoir brings to the reader his understanding of the sea and the Navy. The story explores what it was like at sea, his role as an officer in carrying out his duty to the Navy, the crew, and the ship with the integration of women on board.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798986089706
Publisher:	Jrj Publisher
Publication date:	08/01/2022
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Jim Jewell served for twenty-two years in the Navy. In the Navy, he served on ten ships in positions of First Lieutenant, Executive officer Engineer Officer, Current Operations Officer, and Weapons Officer. In his two shore tours, he was an Associate Professor of an NROTC Unit, Director of Leadership and Management Training for the West Coast and Pacific Rim, and lead facilitator for the Command Excellence Seminar for Senior Officers. In addition to his Naval service, he has been a sports writer and editor, a news correspondent, a weekly newspaper columnist, Director for Safety and Environmental Compliance, Business Development Manager, Organization Development Director, organizational change consultant, executive coach and team building consultant, AM and FM disk jockey, Mister Mom, and grave digger. He currently writes posts on his own website, www.jimjewell. com. He previously published a book of poetry, A Pocket of Resistance: Selected Poems. He is married and lives in California. He has two daughters and a grandson.