Bream was a fossil fuel boat based at Pearl Harbor and a veteran of WWII. She had been depthcharged by the Japanese and had a permanently misshapened hull, which limited our maximum diving depth. After the war she was modified as a "killer" submarine equipped with special sonar for detecting and tracking other subs. She had a huge ugly sonar transducer on the bow which limited her surface speed to about 11 knots.

In Bream I made an extended 7-month cruise to the Western Pacific, which because of her slow speed, took us over a month to cross the Pacific from Hawaii to Japan. While on the cruise, besides visiting Japan, I saw Borneo through the periscope went ashore in The Philippines, where I had a memorable adventure in Manila, which I will eventually tell about in my Autobiography. I also visited Hong Kong, Taiwan, Guam, Wake, and Chichi Shima, an island bastion of the Japanese during WWII near which the first president George Bush was shot down as a Navy pilot.

In 1962, I was promoted to full Lieutenant and transferred to Groton, Connecticut to the construction detail of USS Alexander Hamilton (SSBN 617) a nuclear Polaris Missile submarine. Susan and I were divorced in October 1963 before Hamilton was commissioned.

I made three submerged Polaris patrols in Hamilton, two above the Arctic Circle and one in the Mediterranean Sea, which was like playing in a freeway trying to stay undetected submerged while dodging heavily traveled shipping lanes. Great Fun! There wasn't much traffic to avoid above the Arctic Circle unless you count playing hide-and-seek with Russian "fishing trawlers."

Hamilton had two crews, a "blue crew" and a "gold crew." I was, in turn, supply officer, sonar officer, communications officer and finally navigator of the gold crew. The crews relieved each other so the submarine could spend almost all the time at sea on patrol. Patrols were typically about two months in duration with a week's refitting in between. Overseas homeports for Hamilton were in Holy Loch Scotland and Rota, Spain, near Cadiz. Our permanent homeport was in Charleston, South Carolina, where the crews and their families lived when not on patrol.

I resigned from the Navy in 1967 and worked for a NASA contractor, and later for Exxon (then Humble Oil) for eight years as a technical writer and later as a field engineer specializing in lubrication problems for natural-gas pipeline engines. During this time I traveled a territory north from Texas through Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas.

In 1973 I entered the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas and earned a Masters of Divinity Degree. I was ordained Deacon in June and Priest in December of 1978 in Christ's One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church (Episcopalian/Anglican Communion) by the Bishop of San Joaquin in California. During my career as a priest, I served parishes in California (Holy Family in Fresno and Trinity Church in Lone Pine), Texas (St. Stephens, and St. James in Houston and St. Peter's in Pasadena), and Louisiana (St. Andrews and St. Anna's both in New Orleans.)

I was trained and certified as an interim pastor in 1992. In 1994 I attended a course at Canterbury Cathedral in Anglican Liturgy and Homiletics and in 1996, summer school at University College, Oxford in Anglican studies. I was called to Louisiana in 1998 as Interim Rector of St. Andrews and was appointed vicar of St. Anna's by the Bishop of Louisiana in 1999. In May of 2003, I retired as rector of St. Anna's.

Until recently I lived in New Orleans in the historic neighborhood of Faubourg Marigny, but in November 2003, I sold my house, bought a travel trailer and pickup truck and set out on a tour of the U.S. and Canada to promote my novel, A Perfect Peace. You can read about the novel at www.glynnsbooks.com and my travels at www.chezsugar.com.