Standing Watch

Jonathan Li-Chung Leung volunteers on the USS Blueback (SS-581) at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland where he started leading public tours in 2002, and is now involved mostly with the maintenance crew and in special projects. He now works as Air Traffic Control Specialist at Honolulu Control Facility.

Readers will be amazed by the interesting and engaging description of the dangerous and uncertain nature of submarine service. Leung reminds us that someone always stands the watch protecting our nation, its global interests and our democratic values. Standing Watch left me wanting to learn more and enhanced my appreciation for the men and women in today's submarine force."" - Regina T. Akers, historian at the Naval History and Heritage Command in Washington, DC""As a career US Cold War submariner with a huge submarine library, I feel comfortable in saying that Standing Watch is the first book to my knowledge to examine the perceptions of the effect of the Cold War on junior US Submarine Force personnel."" - Alfred S. McLaren, author of Unknown Waters: A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-Ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish (SSN-651)

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Adventure’s BeginningChapter 2. UnderwayChapter 3. A Unique CultureChapter 4. Fighting the WarChapter 5. ForeignerChapter 6. Looking BackEpilogue: Parting LegaciesAppendix A: Biographical InformationAppendix B: US Submarine Losses (Cold War)Appendix C: Common US Navy Rates and RanksNotesBibliographyIndex