Jeff Bacon is the creator of the BROADSIDE comic. If you don’t know what that is, there’s an excellent chance you weren’t in the Navy, but I suppose there MIGHT be a cartoonist out there who captures life in YOUR service as perfectly as BROADSIDE does Navy life.

Maybe.

Jeff was an oceanographer who served aboard lots of ships and ultimately commanded Naval Oceanography Operations Command in Norfolk, VA, before retiring as a Captain. It took me two hours to extract those facts from an online bio because it was embedded in stuff like this:

Need I say more?

We connected with Jeff through our shipmate John Cordle (USNA ’84), who served with Jeff back in the day and collaborated with him on a book project I’m sure Jeff will tell us about this Thursday. So thanks again to John for the connection, and… seriously…

DON’T MISS THIS ONE!