A graduate of the University of North Carolina, Lieutenant Busby was commissioned directly into the Navy in 1942. He has served as Supply Officer of the U.S.S. Gallatin (APA-169) and in various supply billets at the Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill, N. C., the Norfolk Navy Yard, and the Naval Clothing Depot. He holds the degree of Master of Science in Textile Engineering from the Lowell Textile Institute.

Articles by John C. Busby

Refinements In Mobile Support

By Commander John C. Busby (SC), U. S. Navy
October 1956
Problem for a diver underwater: remove a large nut solidly holding a damaged destroyer propeller onto its shaft. Solution: tighten a wrench onto the nut, and light off a small ...

N.I.S.

By Lieutenant Commander J. C. Busby, (SC) U. S. Navy
October 1953
N.I.S. or “not in stock” is the time honored phraseology of the Navy to indicate that an item requested is temporarily exhausted. It is the supply officer’s equivalent of the ...

To Increase Our Combat Effectiveness

By Lieutenant J. C. Busby (SC), U. S. Navy
January 1952
Is it fantastic to assume that enough food could be loaded in a present day fleet submarine for a three-month cruise without using any extra storage space? Or that the ...

The Uniform Problem

By Lieutenant J. C. Busby, S.C., U. S. Navy
August 1949
Captain Seker carefully buckled on his undress sword belt, smoothed out the wrinkles in his white cotton uniform, and briskly stalked out of his cabin to inspect the crew at ...