What if the very path you chose to avoid danger led you straight into it? What if your careful plans failed from the very first step? In The Naval Officer Who Never Went To Sea by Jerry Robert Ryan, that’s exactly what happens with Ryan. A young man’s plan to avoid war quickly falls apart when his first assignment sends him straight into the Vietnam War. It is one of the top Vietnam War armed forces memoir books that shows the honest and real-life twists of a naval officer who never went to sea. Ryan is sent to the Mekong Delta, working alongside Army units in the middle of the war he tried to escape. In this true story Navy officer life story book, Ryan spent part of his Navy career in Army commands, not only in Vietnam but also in South Korea and Germany. Many armed forces memoirs about Vietnam War focus on combat or life aboard ships at sea. This story is different because it highlights the unexpected career path of a Navy officer who spent his entire career in unique assignments around the world without ever serving at sea.