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About the Author
Commander Richard Hobbs has been involved with the In addition to contributing to the instructional ma-
NJROTC program for more than twenty-five years as a terials for the N]ROTC program, Commander Hobbs has
writer/ editor of many of its instructional textbooks and also written the widely acclaimed Marine Navigation:
other materials. A 1966 graduate of the U.S. Naval Acad- Piloting, Celestial and Electronic, a standard in the field
emy, Commander Hobbs had thirty-plus years of service for the last thirty years. A certified tennis instructor, he
as a surface line officer in the regular and reserve Navy, recently retired after twenty years of teaching physics
in a variety of billets both afloat and ashore. He has also and coaching tennis at a local high school near Annapolis.
worked in industry as a ceramics engineer and produc- He lives with his family in Maryland and in Florida.
tion managel~ and in publishing as an editor on the staff
of the Naval Institute Press.
