Kelly Medina was born to General Florencio Medina and Carmen Medina on October 25, 1931, in Manila, Philippines. Right after graduating from high school from Mapua Institute of Technology High, he attended Mapua's Engineering School and later took Nautical Science at Philippine Maritime Institute. He taught Marine Engineering at PMI and later joined the U.S. Navy and stayed for twenty years and retired on April 27, 1976. After retirement, he worked for Morris and Guralnick Marine Engineers and Naval Architect Associates as Design Engineer and then moved to Federal Civil Service as Supervisor for Shipbuilding and Conversion and as Ship Surveyor and then as Head of Machinery Planning Department of Shore Intermediate Maintenance Activity, San Diego, and retired in 1989. The author has written these matters in a single volume because they are interrelated- any of them without the others would be less meaningful and less interesting. Medina's early years were covered briefly, but beyond that, it is mostly historical than biographical. Although events take precedence over the author in part 1, they drew his stories. In part 2, the author gradually emerges into full view as his career developed.