‘It Was an Extraordinary Experience’
He is best known as former chairman and chief executive officer of the Bank of America, but Dick Rosenberg credits his five years as a young naval officer for instilling him with the self-confidence he needed later to climb the corporate ladder. “I never again had as much responsibility as I did as officer of the deck (OOD) of the USS Mountrail (APA-213), steaming in darkened-ship conditions 1,000 yards from the flagship,” he recalls. And he’s used other lessons from his Navy days throughout his career.
