Captain Potter is a program manager in the computer industry, special­izing in defense systems and based in San Diego, California. In 1979, he was on board the first Spruance (DD-963)-class destroyer operation in the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea. Captain Potter served in the evacuations of Cambodia and Vietnam and on the staff of Commander Naval Air Forces, U.S. Pacific Fleet. As a naval reservist, he has served in the Pentagon, at the Naval War College, and in various as­signments in Japan and Alaska.

Articles by Michael C. Potter

Destroyers Deliver "Urgent Fury"

By Captain Michael C. Potter, Supply Corps, U.S. Naval Reserve
October 1995
Cuban-aligned communists began turn­ing the Caribbean island of Grenada into a military base in 1979. At the time, the island’s People’s Revolutionary Army (PRA)—trained and armed by the government of ...