It's Your Ship - Audiobook sample
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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Chapter one take command. My first inkling of the size of the job came at 1 21 in the afternoon of June 20th 1997 after I formally assumed command of the USS Ben Folds. When a Navy ship changes hands, all routine work stops. Two weeks prior to the event, the crew paints the ship from top to bottom, sets up a big tent on the flight deck, arranges chairs for dignitaries and unrolls a red carpet for the obligatory admiral who delivers a speech on the outstanding performance of the ships. Departing skipper. A reception follows ways of good feelings, saturate the event as the former commanding officer is piped ashore. My predecessor was accompanied by his family as he left the ship, and when the public address system announced his final departure, much of the crew was not disappointed to see him go. I can still feel my face flushing with embarrassment when I remember how some didn't give him a respectable send off. Truthfully, my first thought as I watched this spectacle was about myself. How could I ensure that my eventual departure wouldn't be met with relief when I left the ship in two years, I was taking over a very tough crew who didn't exactly adore their captain. The crew would probably dislike me, I thought, if for no other reason than that I represented old fashioned and perhaps obsolete authority, that was okay. Being likable is not high among the ship captains requirements. What is essential is to be respected, trusted and effective. Listening to those rockets gears, I realized that I had a long way to go before I really took command of Ben Folds.