The 39th U.S. president, who died Sunday at 100, began his storied life of public service as an officer in the U.S. Navy.

Two years out of Annapolis, a young officer in the Navy was up on the tower of a submarine during a horrible storm. He later became the 39th president.

Jimmy Carter knew from a young age he would go to the U.S. Naval Academy. The former president, who grew up in a small farming town in Georgia, said he would have been happy succeeding his father, a farmer and businessman,