Damn. Naval Reserve Sailors earn a Sea Service metal after a certain number of cumulative days at sea. Whatever he received the Naval Achievement Medal for it wasn't on the bounding blue. 9 years and he must of barely got to sea at all. Maybe never sailed enough even to get over sea sickness? Maybe he got out due to ennui?
I don't think he's ever said much about being in the naval reserves other than he was in it and resigned before the gulf war. A couple of times I heard him say something to the effect he'd had a desk job as a publicist, information officer, something like that, and had never been on a ''boat'' (don't they call them vessels in the Navy)?