On trial is Lt. Stephen Maryk Joe Sikoraa), who has been accused of insubordination for wresting command of a Navy destroyer-minesweeper from Queeg during a fearsome storm in the Pacific in the latter days of World War II.
In command of the destroyer Kelly and the 5th destroyer flotilla at the outbreak of World War II, he was appointed commander of an aircraft carrier in 1941.
During World War II he served in the Naval Reserve, rising to second in command of the destroyer USS Kearney.
In 1926, he assumed command of the destroyer.
In 1911 he was given command of the destroyer, which he commanded throughout the war.
In May 1939, Tarbuck received his first command, of the destroyer, which was part of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
He served as a member of its crew until March 1917, when he assumed command of the destroyer.
His naval career began on a destroyer in the final months of World War I. Following command of the destroyer and logistical work prior to World War II, he took command of the Missouri in 1944.
He was assigned to the Receiving Ship, New York, from October 1926 until March 1927, when he assumed command of the destroyer.
He saw action in the Korean war (1950-53) and the Malayan Emergency (1951 52), and two years after qualifying in gunnery (1958) was given command of the minesweeper HMS Fiskerton (1960-62), based in Singapore.
