Commander Richard Hobbs has been involved with the Navy's NJROTC program for more than thirty years as a writer/editor of many of its instructional textbooks and other materials. A 1966 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Commander Hobbs had thirty-plus years of service as a former Sailor, midshipman, and surface line officer in the regular and reserve Navy. He has ... Read morealso worked in industry as a ceramics engineer and production manager, in publishing as an editor on the staff of the Naval Institute Press, and in education as a community college instructor and high school AP and honors physics teacher. In addition to instructional materials for the NJROTC program, Commander Hobbs has also written the widely acclaimed Marine Navigation: Piloting, Celestial and Electronic, a standard text and reference book in the field for the last forty years, and is a contributor of several articles on marine navigation and other related topics to World Book Encyclopedia. Show Less