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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

CDR. 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 and surface line officer in the Regular and Reserve
Navy. He has also worked in industry as a ceramics engineer and production manager,
ill publishing as 3n editor on the staff of the Naval Institute Press, and in education as
a Naval Academy and cOllllllunity college instructor and high school AP and general
physics teacher.
In addition to instructional materials for the N]ROTC program, Commander
Hobbs has also written the widely acclaimed 1HariliC Nrll'igatioll: Pilotillg, Celestial alld
Electro/lie. <1 standard text and reference book in the field for the last thirty-five years,
and is a contributor of several articles on marine navigation and other related topics to
H'orld Book Ellcyclopedia, A certified tennis instructor, he recently retired after twenty
years of teaching physics and coaching tennis at a local high school near Annapolis, An
avid sailor, after many years living aboard their lllotorsailor R 11 R. he and his tinnily
reside in Maryland and in Florida,