Jeremy michael boorda biography of michael jackson
Jeremy Michael Boorda (November 26, 1939 – May 16, 1996) was a United States Navy admiral who served as the 25th Chief of Naval Operations..
Boorda, Jeremy Michael (“Mike”)
(b. 26 November in South Bend, Indiana; d.
16 May in Washington, D.C.), four-star admiral who was the only person in American naval history to rise from the lowest rank to the highest office. He committed suicide while serving as chief of naval operations.
The middle of three children of Herman Boorda and Gertrude Frank Wallis, corner-store clothing merchants, Jeremy Boorda had a difficult youth.
Boorda, Jeremy Michael (28 November 1938–16 May 1996), admiral and chief of naval operations, was born in South Bend, Indiana, on 26.
The family, which moved several times before finally settling in Momence, Illinois, was troubled as neither parent had much time for their children. Herman was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia after trying to commit suicide when Jeremy was thirteen.
An indifferent student and a loner at school, Jeremy quit high school during his junior year, and in early , lying about his age, he enlisted in the navy at sixteen.
Following basic training, he attended the Naval Air Technical Training School in Norman, Oklahoma, where he specialized in personnel adm