Chuck Olmstead interviews Patriot’s Landing resident Ron Brockman, who retired as a captain from the U.S. Navy and was also a U.S. Marine. He was born in Kodiak, Alaska in December 1940. He went to the University of Alaska for a semester, then joined the U.S. Marine Corps. in 1959. The day he graduated from boot camp, he received a nomination letter for the Naval Academy. On his first leave as a marine, he bought a book on how to prepare for the exams and passed it, and joined the class of 1964 Naval Academy. He is also a doctor of osteopathic medicine.
