George Palmer

George Palmer is just an old fashioned farm boy from the Midwest who did his chores at home and paid attention in school (he still carries Mrs. Hemmer's thumbprint on the lobe of his left ear 61 years later).

He became a Navy man and went through the exotic training that enabled him to become a "Nuke", get a commission and serve his country in three different submarines and several meaningful (but non-exotic) shore tours. Just look at the people he had to contend with!

His second career was babysitting Navy bureaucrats at General Dynamics Electric Boat.

His third is wielding a pencil (with a big eraser) and writing about the Sailors he served with or met along the way.

He recently moved to Florida from the frigid wastes of Connecticut with his wife of 52 years and vacations in Aruba each February.