Bruce Henion
From my birth in Sacramento, California, when my
father named me Bruce
Wayne Henion, Batman as my nickname, to my 5th year of age, Galt,
California was home until my family moved to Marion, Oregon where we
lived for several years, prior to moving back to Galt, California until
the fourth grade, when we moved to Tahachapy and then Bakersfield before
returning to Jefferson, Oregon where my father’s farthers farm was
located. From the 6th grade forward and until present short 5 ½ years in
the Navy, a year in Texas and a year in San Franciso/San Jose after my
discharge February 1983, Jefferson, Oregon has been my home residence.
In the last eleven years I have spent 7 years at different intervals in
La Mission BA JA Mexico where I’m presently living with friends who are
carrying for me as care attendants with pay as I am a C5/C6 QUAD of
22-years due to a construction accident that resulted in February 1985 a
broken neck when I fail from a roof on a cold winter day.
From the age of 14, my father taught me the construction trade and
cousins and grandfather taught me the secrets of farming. By the age of
18, I was a journeyman carpenter and could operate tractors, backhoes &
trucks. As a instruction estimator, blue print reader and building
designer, I’ve worked with my father who has built over 500 residential
homes and manufactured, farm use and commercial buildings.
In the last seven years thus far of my life, I have been researching and
writing the USS Coral Sea (CV-43) History and as well, the history of
all aircraft carriers’s published under the titles of U. S. Aircraft
Carriers History. As of the beginning of college at Phoneix April 15,
2008, eleven of 17 books are published, the remaining by the end of the
year. Overhaul, my knowledge of U. S. Aircraft Carriers is much greater
then when I was in the U. S. Navy, having had the opportunity to
research the history of the U. S. Navy’s Fleet of Aircraft Carriers from
1922 to present.
Past activities have included operating as an owner a small Mechanic,
Body and Paint Shop and Small Long Haul Trucking Business, working with
NuWest Commodities Exchange and have in the past been an agent for
Transportation Unlimited, Bend, Oregon and Valley Transportation,
Milwaukee, Oregon locating trucks for loads. I have also independently
dispatched other trucking business trucks from 1999 to 2002 and from
2000 to 2002, served as the Executive Assistant for Chairman and
President of Sun Rivers Investment, Inc., Idaho and American Modular
Systems International (AMSI), Jefferson, Oregon, Chairman and President
Sam Sarich. Publication of The Magnificence of the Treasure Valley and
Growth of Ada and Canyon County of Idaho and A Planned Community
District or Municipality known as Montebello; illustrates one of the
largest proposed Planned Communities in Idaho as of 2002.
Present activities include Designing Steel Homes serving as the
CEO/President of both New Home Generation, Inc. and Energy Equest
National Energy Efficient Development, Inc. (EQNEED) publishing books on
U. S. Navy Aircraft Carriers.
As the EQNEED Founder, in the last 25-years I have written many books on
the Environment and Natural Resources, Renewable Energy Technologies,
Planned Community Districts, Trucking issues and Energy Quest. The
California Energy Commission uses my book name "Energy Quest." I wrote
my first two books when I was in the U. S. Navy in 1980 and 1982.
Serving onboard an aircraft carrier for 3 ½
years, from December 1971 to August 1981, I obtained my GED, the rank of
E-5 and Student Pilots license, serving first in the Deck Department and
then in the Operations Department as the Departmental Yoeman, where my
duties ranged from typing top secret manuals to Officer FITREP’s and
Enlisted Evualations to Letter of Instructions, messages and assisting
in the management of the OPRDER during Operation Evening Light and
Operation Egale Claw April 1980.
Reinlisting in September 1980, the Chief of Naval
Personnel assigned me to the Naval Amphibious School (NAVPHIBSCOL);
where I was assigned to the Naval Special Warfare Training Department
(NSWTD or (BUDS/SEALS), Naval Amphibious Base, Coronado, San Diego,
California on 5 October 1981. While assigned to NSWTD I was encouraged
to run and swim with the students and instructors, during which time I
wrote, typed and published Energy Quest Political and Economic Rights. I
had recently finished my second book, Energy Quest Political and
Economic Rights and was awaiting entrance into the SEALS when I was
given a choice by Captain William's, CO, NAVPHIBSCOL, co-sponsored by
Captain Conley, Director Human Resource Management Training Department
(HRMTD), NAVPHIBSCOL, to either join the SEALS or become the
Administrative Assistant of HRMTD; with the responsibility of editing
all curriculum submitted by instructors to Captain Conley prior to
teaching Leadership Management Education and Training curriculum to
Commanders and below.
Accompanied with this position, I would be
frocked to Petty Officer E-5 on 16 June 1982 and allowed to publish
Energy Quest Political and Economic Rights. One of the NAVPHIBSCOL
civilian secretaries was typing final drafts on EQ and everyone knew it.
I accepted the position of HRMTD Administrative Assistant and published
EQ Political and Economic Rights.
When the Navy Petty Officer Introduction Course for E-4 Petty Officer’s
was ordered published by the Chief of Naval Operations, Tomas B.
Hayward; Captain Conley made sure I attended the first Navy Petty
Officer Introduction for E-4 Petty Officer’s training course lasting
several weeks.
Unable to follow through with more then a few years of college in the
late eighties and early ninities, having attended Linn Benton, Albany
and Chemeketa Community College, Salem, Oregon, enrolling for on line
study furthering my education is at the top of my priority list.On
line Aircraft Photos of Squadron planes deployed aboard
Coral
Sea and aircraft carriers and
historical data within the Active Link EBook can be found at Aardvark
Global Publishing Company, LLC (ISBN No. 978-1-4276-0464-4)
http://usscoralseacv43.bookscapes.com EBook version of the
Coral
Sea
History Book found at Lulu
http://stores.lulu.com/Batman47
http://www.uscarrierhistory.com
PageOneLit.com: Where did you grow up and was reading and writing a part
of your life? Who were your earliest influences and why?
Bruce Henion: From my birth in Sacramento, California, when my father
named me Bruce Wayne Henion, Batman as my nickname, to my 5th year of
age, Galt, California was home until my family moved to Marion, Oregon
where we lived for several years, prior to moving back to Galt,
California until the fourth grade, when we moved to Tahachapy and then
Bakersfield before returning to Jefferson, Oregon where my father’s
farthers farm was located. From the 6th grade forward and until present
short 5 ½ years in the Navy, a year in Texas and a year in San Franciso/San
Jose after my discharge Februay 1983, Jefferson, Oregon has been my home
residence. In the last eleven years I have spent 7 years at different
intervals in La Mission BA JA Mexico where I’m presently living with
friends who are carring for me as care attendants with pay as I am a
C5/C6 QUAD of 22-years due to a construction acident that resulted in
February 1985 a broken neck when I fail from a roof on a cold winter
day.
From the age of 14, my father taught me the construction trade and
cousins and grandfather taught me the secrets of farming. By the age of
18, I was a journeyman carpenter and could operate tractors, backhoes &
trucks. As a construction estimator, blue print reader and building
designer, I’ve worked with my father who has built over 500 resendital
homes and manufactured, farm use and commercial buildings.
In the last seven years thus far of my life, I have been researching and
writing the USS Coral Sea (CV-43) History and as well, the history of
all aircraft carriers’s published under the titles of U. S. Aircraft
Carriers History. As of the beginning of college at Phoneix April 15,
2008, eleven of 17 books are published, the remaining by the end of the
year. Overhaul, my knowledge of U. S. Aircraft Carriers is much greater
then when I was in the U. S. Navy, having had the opportunity to
research the history of the U. S. Navy’s Fleet of Aircraft Carriers from
1922 to present.
Past activities have included operating as an owner a small Mechanic,
Body and Paint Shop and Small Long Haul Trucking Business, working with
NuWest Commodities Exchange and have in the past been an agent for
Transportation Unlimited, Bend, Oregon and Valley Transportation,
Milwaukee, Oregon locating trucks for loads. I have also independently
dispatched other trucking business trucks from 1999 to 2002 and from
2000 to 2002, served as the Executive Assistant for Chairman and
President of Sun Rivers Investment, Inc., Idaho and American Modular
Systems International (AMSI), Jefferson, Oregon, Chairman and President
Sam Sarich. Publication of The Magnificence of the Treasure Valley and
Growth of Ada and Canyon County of Idaho and A Planned Community
District or Municipality known as Montebello; illustrates one of the
largest proposed Planned Communities in Idaho as of 2002.
Present activities include Desigining Steel Homs serving as the
CEO/President of both New Home Generation, Inc. and Energy Equest
National Energy Efficient Development, Inc. (EQNEED) publishing books on
U. S. Navy Aircraft Carriers.
As the EQNEED Founder, in the last 25-years I have written many books on
the Environment and Natural Resources, Renewable Energy Technologies,
Planned Community Districts, Trucking issues and Energy Quest. The
California Energy Commission uses my book name "Energy Quest." I wrote
my first two books when I was in the U. S. Navy in 1980 and 1982.
John Wayne, C. Heston, Jimmy Stuart, Randolph Scott and many other
actors directly influenced my behavior and formed my character through
watching countless movies.
PageOneLit.com: Why do you write?
Bruce Henion: Writing is the only way I’m able to express ideas and
through researching U. S. Aircraft Carrier History I was able to compile
the most accurate accounting of aircraft carrier history any were in the
world.
PageOneLit.com: Discuss your military background and experience.
Bruce Henion: Serving onboard an aircraft carrier for 3 ½ years, from
December 1971 to August 1981, I obtained my GED, the rank of E-5 and
Student Pilots license, serving first in the Deck Department and then in
the Operations Department as the Departmental Yoeman, where my duties
ranged from typing top secret manuals to Officer FITREP’s and Enlisted
Evualations to Letter of Instructions, messages and assisting in the
management of the OPRDER during Operation Evening Light and Operation
Egale Claw April 1980.
Reinlisting in September 1980, the Chief of Naval Personnel assigned me
to the Naval Amphibious School (NAVPHIBSCOL); where I was assigned to
the Naval Special Warfare Training Department (NSWTD or (BUDS/SEALS),
Naval Amphibious Base, Coronado, San Diego, California on 5 October
1981. While assigned to NSWTD I was encouraged to run and swim with the
students and instructors, during which time I wrote, typed and published
Energy Quest Political and Economic Rights. I had recently finished my
second book, Energy Quest Political and Economic Rights and was awaiting
entrance into the SEALS when I was given a choice by Captain William's,
CO, NAVPHIBSCOL, co-sponsored by Captain Conley, Director Human Resource
Management Training Department (HRMTD), NAVPHIBSCOL, to either join the
SEALS or become the Administrative Assistant of HRMTD; with the
responsibility of editing all curriculum submitted by instructors to
Captain Conley prior to teaching Leadership Management Education and
Training curriculum to Commanders and below.
Accompanied with this position, I would be frocked to Petty Officer E-5
on 16 June 1982 and allowed to publish Energy Quest Political and
Economic Rights. One of the NAVPHIBSCOL civilian secretaries was typing
final drafts on EQ and everyone knew it.
I accepted the position of HRMTD Administrative Assistant and published
EQ Political and Economic Rights.
When the Navy Petty Officer Introduction Course for E-4 Petty Officer’s
was ordered published by the Chief of Naval Operations, Tomas B.
Hayward; Captain Conley made sure I attended the first Navy Petty
Officer Introduction for E-4 Petty Officer’s training course lasting
several weeks.
PageOneLit.com: Your new book is titled USS CORAL SEA CV-42, CVB-43,
CVA-43 & CV-43 HISTORY, AND THOSE AIRCRAFT CARRIERS OPERATING WITH CORAL
SEA DURING HER TOUR OF SERVICE AND A TOUR OF DUTY IN THE U. S. NAVY
(August 1977 to February 1983) --Please explain the title in relation to
the book.
Bruce Henion: CORAL SEA’s title best illustrates its content as Coral
Sea’s history while a narative summary is complete and her operations
are joined with other carriers that operated with her both on the east
and west coast. My tour of duty illustrates a young man defining is life
and over coming adversity, becoming an asset to the command.
PageOneLit.com: What do you hope to achieve with your book USS CORAL SEA
CV-42, CVB-43, CVA-43 & CV-43 HISTORY, AND THOSE AIRCRAFT CARRIERS
OPERATING WITH CORAL SEA DURING HER TOUR OF SERVICE AND A TOUR OF DUTY
IN THE U. S. NAVY (August 1977 to February 1983)? How was this aircraft
carrier different from others serving this period?
Bruce Henion: There are many stories of sailors that served onboard the
Coral Sea that deserve more credit then I, yet Hollywood doesn’t seem to
be interested in producing movies about those who have served onboard
aircraft carrier. My book creates a narritive historical summary putting
in perspective stateside activity and deployments abling others who
served onboard the Coral Sea the opportunity to rediscover their past
activities as well as those who had family or friends serving onboard.
Creating an on line library of content and aviation photos allows
interaction far beyond nearly reading a reference book.
USS Coral Sea (CVB-43) and her sisters, USS Midway (CVB-41) and USS
Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42), battle-class carriers, were constructed
with the most advanced damage control innovations possible, including an
armored flight deck and intensive internal subdivision not found on any
carrier or other combatant before or since during World War II.
The Coral Sea (CV-42), the 42nd aircraft carrier of the U.S. Navy, was
the second ship of the fleet to be named for the famous battle that not
only blunted a Japanese thrust toward Port Moresby, but was the first
marked successful U.S. naval engagement in the Pacific Ocean and the
first naval battle in which two opposing fleets operated with no visual
contact during World War I.
The Battle of the Coral Sea (4-8 May 1942) proved a serious setback to
Japanese movement toward Australia, and the anniversary of the battle is
still commemorated ‘down under”.
President Frankin D. Roosevelt’s death on 12 April 1945 prompted the
reassignment of the name ‘Coral Sea’ for a second time on 8 May 1945
from CV-43 to CVB-43 in the late-chief executive and war leader’s honor,
the last unnamed Midway-class carrier.
USS Coral Sea (CV-43) with CVW-14 embarked (tail code NK) departed 13
November 1979 Alameda, California, on her 13th “Westpac” deployment
operating with the Pacific Fleet (25 January 1960 to Present) and tour
of duty with the 7th Fleet in the Far East, she will under go her first
Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea deployment during the Iranian revolution &
Iran Hostage Crisis to strengthen the U.S. Naval presence in the crucial
Indian Ocean area as tensions heightened over Iran's taking of 52
American diplomats’ hostage, in what would turn out to be Operation
Evening Light during Operation Eagle Claw, the attempt to rescue the US
Embassy workers being held hostage in Tehran, Iran.
PageOneLit.com: Who took the great photos in USS CORAL SEA CV-42,
CVB-43, CVA-43 & CV-43 HISTORY, AND THOSE AIRCRAFT CARRIERS OPERATING
WITH CORAL SEA DURING HER TOUR OF SERVICE AND A TOUR OF DUTY IN THE U.
S. NAVY (August 1977 to February 1983)?
Bruce Henion: During my tour of duty onboard CORAL SEA, I made many
friends in the Photo Lab and the Inteligence Division whom would give me
ship and aircraft photos. I’m standing on the bow of the ship with
others when a photographer’s mate took the Coral Sea Front Cover Photo.
PageOneLit.com: What did you learn from writing USS CORAL SEA CV-42,
CVB-43, CVA-43 & CV-43 HISTORY, AND THOSE AIRCRAFT CARRIERS OPERATING
WITH CORAL SEA DURING HER TOUR OF SERVICE AND A TOUR OF DUTY IN THE U.
S. NAVY (August 1977 to February 1983)
Bruce Henion: In the seven years thus far of researching and writing the
Coral Sea History and as well, the history of all aircraft carrier’s
published under the title’s of U. S. Aircraft Carriers History, I’ve
learned the U. S. Navy needs more carriers as a result to 5 to 8 years
of construction time for a new carrier and at any given time we can only
deploy 60 percent of the present 11 commissioned carriers due to
overhaul, refitt, leave rotation, west and east coast ready carriers and
size of fleet. Once George Bush is commissioned the fleet of carriers
will remain 12 until the Kitty Hawk is decommissioned at which time the
fleet will remain 11 by 2009 years end. Furthermore the U. S. Navy has
never counted the deployments of U. S. Aircraft Carriers from 1948 to
present which I made an attempt to do. Overhaul, my knowledge of U. S.
Aircraft Carriers is much greater then when I was in the U. S. Navy,
having had the opportunity to research the history of the U. S. Navy’s
Fleet of Aircraft Carriers from 1922 to present.
PageOneLit.com: What's next?
Bruce Henion: Further publications of U. S. Aircraft Carriers History
and unable to follow through with more then a few years of college in
the late eighties and early ninities, having attended Linn Benton,
Albany and Chemeketa Community College, Salem, Oregon, enrolling for on
line study furthering my education presently working toward my Bachelor
of Science in Business - Management degree with Phoneix University is at
the top of my priority list.
PageOneLit.com: What was the last book you read?
Bruce Henion: Playing with the Enemy
PageOneLit.com: Do you have any hobbies? What are they? How do they
enhance your writing?
Bruce Henion: Steel Home Design, HO Trains/Cars, Internet suffering,
Remote control cars and reading. Years past driving a speedboat was my
biggest thrill in lakes and rivers.
I’ve been writing since 1979 and have complied through research many
books on our environment and natural resources, renewable energy
technologies, planned community districts, trucking and Energy Quest
Political and Economic Rights.
