My first assignment, after graduating from Navy boot camp in San Diego (April 1977) was attending schools in electronics, submarine systems, and torpedo/missile fire control system operation and maintenance in Groton, CT. In August 1978, I received orders to my first boat, the USS Bergall SSN-667. It was headed to overhaul at Norfolk Naval Shipyard,…
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About Jim Sandman – James Alan Sandman was born in Richmond, VA (1956), third of four sons. After attending Middlesex H.S. (Saluda, VA) and graduating from Lafayette H.S. (Williamsburg, VA), he served in the U.S. Navy Submarine Service for twenty years, retiring as a Chief Fire Control System Technician (Torpedo/Missile) in 1997, having served on…
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“Jim Sandman’s creativity takes us way beyond… …the eye-catching title of this book. As I read through these pages, I was drawn deeper into a beautiful and encouraging vision of what is real and lasting; to the kind of hope we all desperately need in this world of confusing and disappointing counterfeits.” – Peter Schmidt,…
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