In 1958, the United States of America was about to face a foreign war (The Vietnam War: begun in 1959 and ended in 1975) In the same year 1958, a twenty-two-year-old American boy who did graduate from the United States Naval Academy became a naval aviator to serve his country without a hesitation of facing the upcoming combat. Thereafter, all the way through the Vietnam War and beyond he served in the U.S. Navy: from 1958 to 1981. When he retired from the U.S. Navy in 1981, his service had deeply awarded with number of military and government medals.