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Craig Johnson is a retired Mustang naval officer. Having entered the United States Navy in 1968 as an enlisted man, he attended boot camp at Great Lakes near Chicago, Illinois. After boot camp he attended Torpedoman School in Key West, Florida. He spent 12 years as an enlisted man and then was promoted to temporary Limited Duty Officer Ensign specialising in Submarine Ordinance. As an officer he served aboard the USS Orion AS-18 where he qualified as a Surface Warfare Officer. He was then assigned to the Joint Cruise Missiles Project 3 and Naval Air Systems Command for the development and implementation of TOMAHAWK© cruise missiles. After twenty years of active naval service, he was transferred to the U.S Navy’s Fleet Reserve as Master Chief Torpedoman in 1988. Following 10 years in the Fleet Reserves, he was transferred to the Retired List as a Lieutenant in 1998. His civilian career has been varied across several industries. He owned a packaging and shipping company that specialized in high value items. He also worked in the information technology industry as a consultant. Over the last year, he began writing about his time in the U.S. Navy and developing a collection of stories about them.