The Wrath of Rickover
By Captain William J. Toti, U.S. Navy (Retired)
A U.S. Naval Academy midshipman endures legendary tongue lashings and banishment to a broom closet from the Father of the Nuclear Navy.
The time was about 1900, after a series of very long days. Like the others, this day was filled with tests and interviews, hours of mental intensity interrupted by hours of mind-numbing boredom. I was a first-class midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy, and this was the singular event that would determine the course of my professional life.
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Captain Toti is an active-duty Navy captain who, with his able assistant Lieutenant Commander Sancho Panza, has worked warfare requirements issues for both Joint and Navy Staffs. He was the 2000 Proceedings Author of the Year.
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