This newly commissioned Navy officer has an even more difficult time than he expects making an appointment with the executive officer on board the USS Hermitage.rnIn 1957,I was commissioned an ensign in the U.S. Navy and assigned to the USS Hermitage (LSD-34) in Little Creek, Va., for temporary duty before flight training in Pensacola, Fla. The Hermitage was a new ship and the only air-conditioned ship in the amphibious force.
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