Description:
The Wardroom recounts an officer's tour aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer. Thibaut Delloue confronted Russian battlecruisers off the coast of Syria and fought ISIS in Libya, all while struggling with an unhinged captain and his own sanity.
Brief description: Thibaut Delloue is a former naval officer, writer, and advocate for sailors and veterans. His articles and narrative nonfiction about the Navy have been featured in the publications Task and Purpose, War on the Rocks, the U.S. Naval Institute's Proceedings magazine, and The War Horse. His first book, The Wardroom: an officer's tour at sea and the crisis of the U.S. Navy, will be released June 2022Thibaut's road to the military was an unlikely one. Hailing from the great state of New Hampshire, he began his professional career as an English and reading comprehension teacher in China and the Boston area. In 2014, he stumbled into a Navy recruiting office and applied for the Navy's Officer Candidate School; some months later he began his military training at Naval Station Newport in Rhode Island. After receiving his officer commission as an ensign in the U.S. Navy, Thibaut was assigned to his first ship, the Arleigh-Burke class destroyer USS Carney.After completing his first tour, Thibaut was assigned to the littoral combat ship USS Coronado in San Diego, where he served as navigator from 2017 to 2020. He completed his active duty service at the rank of lieutenant in May of 2020 and, after a brief stint in the Navy Reserve, pursued a graduate degree at Stanford University's School of Education. Thibaut is currently an assistant principal at a charter school in Nashville, Tennessee.