George R. Worthington

Rear Admiral George Rhodes Worthington, U.S. Navy (Retired), was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1937, grew up in Tucson, Arizona, attended South Kent School in Connecticut, spent one year at Brown University before matriculating to the U.S. Naval Academy, graduating with an Ensign commission June 1961. His first tour was in USS Halsey Powell (DD-686), which participated in the 1962 Christmas Island bomb tests.

RUNNIN' WITH FROGs
A NAVY MEMOIR

This book is an autobiographical sketch of a Naval career, highlighting challenging assignments during a spectacular era in America. Details of deployments and special events of international and national moment associated with operational and command tours are described. Actions, decisions, and personal learning impacts are forthrightly discussed with in-depth descriptions of special training

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