"The Best and saltiest of Admiral Gallery's tales of goings-on in the Navy." -- Inside Books

"GUARANTEED TO KEEP SAILORS, SOLDIERS, OFFICERS WIVES AND ALL CIVILIANS ROLLING WITH LAUGHTER" -- Independent Star News

"Required reading for all seafaring men who like robust, salty humor. Landlubbers are allowed to read it provided they have no stitches from recent operations that are likely to bust loose." -- Onalaska Record-Times

The same superb quality as Now Hear This!... the funniest and most revealing fiction about the U.S. Navy." -- New Castle News

"A Good supply of high-seas hilarity." -- Sioux Falls Argus-Leader

"Y-Y TO START ENGINES "STARTS OUT ON A FUNNY RIB-SPLITTING NOTE, AND GETS FUNNIER WITH EACH CHAPTER." -- Palm Beach Post Times

"Hilarious tall tales about our present-day Navy.... A truly funny book which moves along a fast pace, except that now and again the reader has to stop and laugh at loud.... A whale of a story." -- Charleston, S.C. News and Courier

"Rousing, robust, hilarious..." -- Bridgeton, N.Y. News

"If you enjoyed NOW HEAR THIS!... You will have a hard time putting this one down... STAND Y TO START ENGINES." -- Shipmate

"THIS NEW ONE REALLY TOPS THEM ALL." -- The Virginia-Pilot

"A HILARIOUS STORY OF LIFE AT SEA..." -- Henry III, News-Republican

"... button-busting laughter... the third side splitting book - Florida Times-Union

"It is worth reading, particularly for old salts. Even old salts who have never been to sea." -- The Providence Journal

"... riotous adventures..." -- St. Paul Pioneer Press

"... THE SALTIEST AND CERTAINLY THE FUNNIEST WRITER ON WARSHIP LIFE IS REAR ADM. DAN GALLERY..." -- Chicago Tribune

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The commander that had a "Dirty Tricks Squad"

The commander that earned his anchor year-old can read without reservation as to language or content. When a reference needs to be made of "salty language" Gallery refers to the verbage as exactly that: Salty Language. Specifics are left to the imagination of the beholder as it were.

Better make sure your chair has arms, otherwise you'll fall off laughing so hard. Check in with the screwball Navy populated by Lt. Cmdr. Curley Cue, Lt.(jg) Willy Wigglesworth, Adm. Windy Day, Adm. Bugler Bates and the rest to see how life must really be on an aircraft carrier. Written in the 1960s, Gallery's stories still ring true. No matter how technologically advanced today's Navy becomes, its still all about ships and men. And both have their foibles. Gallery exposes them all in this funny book. Don't stop with this one. Write the publisher and ask it to reprint all of Gallery's books. I am still missing a few from my collection.