Bruce Jones was born to wealthy parents in the suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Growing up, he was always fascinated by the tale of the existence of the Loch Ness monster, called Nessie that reputedly inhabited the water around the Scottish Highlands. Throughout his career in high school Bruce maintained a stellar academic profile. His parents expected that Bruce would be interested in an Ivy League institution like Harvard, Yale or Columbia for his next academic phase. But to their surprise, Bruce announced that he would like to serve his country for a few years before finding his true calling in life. Accordingly, he applied to attend the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland and successfully crossed all the hurdles to get admitted into the storied institution. In the third year of his studies, Bruce had to decide and declare his future interest in the naval operation, whether it be a marine, a jet fighter pilot, or a surface warfare officer (SWO) in a nuclear powered aircraft carrier. He chose to be an SWO on an aircraft carrier patrolling around the world to maintain American supremacy in the global theatre.
On finishing the academic program, Bruce was assigned to the missile-carrier destroyer USS Vincent to patrol along the Mediterranean Sea as a part of the US commitment to maintain peace in Europe. During one such operation when his destroyer was heading towards the Black Sea in north, two Russian jet fighters suddenly appeared in the sky encircling the destroyer, locking the vessel into their firing range. Though emergency sirens began to blare within Bruce’s warship for a possible confrontation, it turned out be a part of a regular harassment by the Russian air force personnel to the American naval forces in the region.
Next year, based on his commanding performance on the destroyer, Bruce was promoted to a Lieutenant level and assigned to the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Lincoln. His first mission was to take part in a joint naval exercise involving other NATO countries, off the coast of Faslane, Scotland. In the dark of the night his naval vessel slowly approached the naval base there. Bruce, through his night-vision goggles, felt spotting his childhood dream creature Nessie, the Loch Ness monster at the distant. Excited, he burst into the vessel’s control room, announcing Nessie’s presence at the horizon. The intelligence-gathering officer in charge smiled and pronounced “That’s no Nessie, but a Russian nuclear submarine, keeping a constant watch on us from underneath the international water.”
When this mission was underway, a change in political leadership had taken place in Washington, DC. As the morning sun began to appear in the eastern sky, Bruce received a wire report from the central command. It detailed about the secret collusion of his country’s newly elected political leadership with the arch enemy of Russian hierarchy in order to be victorious in that recently concluded national election.
On finishing the academic program, Bruce was assigned to the missile-carrier destroyer USS Vincent to patrol along the Mediterranean Sea as a part of the US commitment to maintain peace in Europe. During one such operation when his destroyer was heading towards the Black Sea in north, two Russian jet fighters suddenly appeared in the sky encircling the destroyer, locking the vessel into their firing range. Though emergency sirens began to blare within Bruce’s warship for a possible confrontation, it turned out be a part of a regular harassment by the Russian air force personnel to the American naval forces in the region.
Next year, based on his commanding performance on the destroyer, Bruce was promoted to a Lieutenant level and assigned to the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Lincoln. His first mission was to take part in a joint naval exercise involving other NATO countries, off the coast of Faslane, Scotland. In the dark of the night his naval vessel slowly approached the naval base there. Bruce, through his night-vision goggles, felt spotting his childhood dream creature Nessie, the Loch Ness monster at the distant. Excited, he burst into the vessel’s control room, announcing Nessie’s presence at the horizon. The intelligence-gathering officer in charge smiled and pronounced “That’s no Nessie, but a Russian nuclear submarine, keeping a constant watch on us from underneath the international water.”
When this mission was underway, a change in political leadership had taken place in Washington, DC. As the morning sun began to appear in the eastern sky, Bruce received a wire report from the central command. It detailed about the secret collusion of his country’s newly elected political leadership with the arch enemy of Russian hierarchy in order to be victorious in that recently concluded national election.
