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STGC(SW) Jeffery S. Edwards, USN (Ret.) |
Jeff Edwards is a retired U.S.
Navy Chief Petty Officer, and an Anti-Submarine Warfare Specialist (NEC
0417). He is currently working as an expert civilian advisor to the Naval
Mine and Anti-Submarine Warfare Command, and Naval Space Warfare Systems
Command.
A combat veteran, Jeff is a
recipient of the Combat Action Ribbon, the Navy Commendation Medal, the
Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, campaign ribbons for Operation Desert
Shield/Desert Storm, the liberation of Kuwait, and numerous other medals and
citations. His naval career spanned more than two decades and half the
globe - from chasing Soviet nuclear attack submarines during the Cold War,
to launching cruise missiles in the Persian Gulf.
Jeff's first novel, TORPEDO, won the Admiral
Nimitz Award for Outstanding Naval Fiction from the Military
Writers Society of America, the American Author
Medal from the American Authors Association, the
Reader's Choice Award, the
Editor's Choice Award, the
Star Performer Award, and was nominated
for the American Library Association's W. Y. Boyd
Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction. |
