“The former pollywog members of the President’s party have all survived [their Equator-crossing initiation], but while they are recuperating, this dispatch is being sent not by Mr. [Secretary Steve] ...

Robert W. "Rocky" Rachau of Selinsgrove joined the Navy in 1971 as a 19-year-old who wanted to see the world. When he crossed the equator, he went from a pollygow to a shellback aboard the USS ...