It’s been a very Sammy B Memorial Day weekend. The third USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG 58) was decommissioned on Friday, accompanied by the typical pomp and circumstance the Navy affords its ships on the day they leave active service. Here are some photos, stories, op-eds, and other remembrances that were published over the weekend: …
Category Archives: No Higher Honor
‘No Higher Honor,’ Kindle Edition
Tomorrow marks a quarter-century since Operation Praying Mantis, the one-day campaign of retribution launched by the United States against Iran for the April 14, 1988, mining of the USS Samuel B. Roberts. Naval Institute Proceedings is marking the anniversary of Praying Mantis, the U.S. Navy’s largest surface battle since World War II, by publishing in its …
Added to CNO’s reading list
Well, this is exciting. No Higher Honor has been picked as a Title of Interest by the CNO’s Professional Reading Program. Maintained by the Naval War College, the CNO-PRP’s reading lists include some really great books, such as A Sailor’s History of the U.S. Navy by Tom Cutler, Wired for War by Pete Singer, The …
‘No Higher Honor,’ back in print
I’m happy to report that Naval Institute Press has released a paperback edition of No Higher Honor: Saving the USS Samuel B. Roberts in the Persian Gulf. You can buy it on Amazon or, if you’re a Naval Institute member, through the USNI site. If you happen to seek the book elsewhere, kindly remember that …
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