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I graduated from the Great Lakes Naval Training Center on November 22,1963. We were all dressed up and, in the hall, ready to go When suddenly the commander came to the mike and announced " President Kennedy has just been assassinated in Dallas Texas". Needless to say, the ceremony was called off. We did, however, sing the "Navy Hymn" and then left in silence, many of us with tears in our eyes. I was only seventeen at the time, but on that fateful day I knew the country would never be the same and I had to grow up very fast.
Update. I just wanted to say thanks for all the nice comments. I think most of us went into boot camp as boys, but we came out as men. Cheers to all my fellow Navy vets.
that's very interesting story to hear. I admire your honor and am thankful for your service.
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Wow thats my birthday! I graduated January 14th of this year! Hooyah shipmate
I went to Great Lakes Sept. 15, 1965
@@paulwilson9191 My nephew went there a couple of years ago. I hear it is a very different bootcamp from the one you and I went to.
Orlando May - July 1976. My first day in Bootcamp they woke us up at 4:30am by throwing a garbage can across the barracks. At that moment I thought I made the worst decision of my life. As it turned out it was one of the best decisions ever made. I went on to serve 6 years in the Submarine Force. These turned out to be some of the best years of my life. From the newest recruit to the oldest salt - thank you for your service!
In 1976 I was a teenager vacationing in Barbados and was given a tour of SSN 614 Greenling - have since wondered if there was any way to find out more about our guide Petty Officer Schroder, who I recall had just signed on for another few years.
Orlando March 76-June 76. Company 268. I'll never forget. 20 years later retirement ceremony. The best years of my life.
Oh, how well I remember those garbage cans. and our CC always banged them with a smile on his face. And like yourself, my joining the nave was the best decision I could have made. ⚓⚓
That's how we woke up at great lakes too
Same thing here bro only May 1975. I was at the Orlando Florida boot camp. Nothing like arriving at 2:30 Am, 2 hours of non sleep and then that trash can! I served on The USS Ranger. Aviation ordinance. 1975-1979. Take care and god bless brother! I'm from Connecticut.
I'm now into my 70's and I still consider joining the military (Air Force) as one of the best decisions I have made in my life.
Same here
I had my leg shattered sophmore year playing football also was my life plan. I’m 60 now.
@@mikejacobs2886 Air Force? lmao.
Thank you for your service
@@chris-thumper7205 Ha ha, right.
I was a Marine 1986-1993, would later join the Army 1995-2012. Retired infantry my entire time in. If you served, thanks for your service. 🇺🇸
Same years I served
If all our young people were required to go through boot camp, what great group of citizens we would produce.
Humility, discipline and teamwork go a long way in life.
Absolutely all should serve!
Amen to that brother!
It's not for everybody.
@@Jagar_Tharn we dont want everybody................
Oh that cold cold morning at the Airport before getting on the bus to Bootcamp - 5 degrees outside Feb 2nd 1989 arrive at Great Lakes at 2 am and ready for my new life.... U.S. Navy Veteran
So glad I did mine in the summer lol
Woooo damn!!! I’d have frozen in place at the airport 😆.
Same place, same time, but January 5th, 1981,it was cold for this Alabama boy
Great lakes 73 January
My son leaves February 2nd 2022 for Navy bootcamp. I am so proud of him
My daughter graduates 2/4/2022. Congratulations!
Please thank him for his service. My dad was in the Navy. Navy Veteran now
I thank you and your son for his service.
He'll make corporate interests proud.
we as navy vets are proud of him as well
USN vet here, may I join in the wonderful comments that while at the time, our training was daunting at our young age. I think we all came in with many hopes that service would GIVE us. I think most of of vets appreciate that the service quickly calibrated our focus on not what the service could give me, but what I must do to help my fellow shipmate/ soldier/ airman/ marine. As I was told in the fleet "Duty is defined as actions you are BOUND to do. " Thank you US Navy for making me a better American, husband and father.
May 22, 1980.. Great Lakes. Best thing I’ve EVER done in my life. Most of the guys I grew up with are dead. Drugs, jail or murdered. 42 years later I’m still doing almost what I did when in the Navy and with some of the same people.
San Diego, CA, summer 1987 I went to NAVY boot camp. Since then this base had closed down.
I joined the Navy in Jan.13, 1966 San Diego boot camp. It's alot different now. In the beginning nobody was sure what we were into. But you learn as things go along. Then graduation day is a proud moment. Your ready to go to your duty station, and that's when you become a sailor.
Now they don’t even have to cross the bridge😎
Hello. I graduated from bootcamp April 2002. It was great. They yelled at us but mostly all we did was March and eat chow and go to class! I loved the cadence I still sing it around the house now!
I had a chief on rove at 2am start reading navy poetry in my face. It was very eloquent and beautiful but he seemed like he was trying to mess me. GMC Morgan Morgan was his name. Amazing guy and very knowledgeable of Navy tradition. He'd come and over navy tradition with us on holiday all the time.
This video brought back a lot of memories of my training at RTC Great Lakes in Waukegan, Illinois. I graduated on August 23, 1991. I learned a lot about responsibility and discipline. I feel that this training and experience helped me to become the man that I am today. I got money for college from the Navy. I think that being 5 years older when I went to college worked to my advantage. I also get my medical care from the VA. I think that the Navy was well worth the 4 years that I served. I think that it is an excellent learning and growing experience
I went though this whole process, from O’Hara airport to Great Lakes, and strangers yelling at you!! Those was great times!! Anchors away!!!
We didn’t sleep for an entire day. Standing for hours in those “Smurf” uniforms 😂😂😂
@@csharp57 I fell asleep during battle stations and still passed 🤣
You landed at O'Hare, not O'hara. It is "anchors aweigh," by the way... You forgot attention to detail.
@@wagonmaster1974 LOL beat me to it
It's amazing how quickly you can learn hand signals for salt when you see people doing 8 counts in the p-way outside of the mess.
I dont mean to be off topic but does someone know a tool to get back into an Instagram account..?
I somehow forgot the password. I would appreciate any tips you can offer me
Faaaaaaaaacts! Lmfao.
I went through Marine boot camp when barely 18, and the. Air Force officer training at 27.
Boy do I wish I was that fit and young again!
I am now 66 I had a great career in active duty and reserves!
Never regretted it even when being in combat many times.
Very proud to have served like my father and uncles.
Everyone longs for youth and its normal
super mad respect for any young adult who serves their country! May God watch over all of them…always. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
First off, thank you for your service. I did my Basic and AIT at Ft. McClellan back in the late 70's. Things were tough back then and that made me a better person and soldier. I was also 4th generation military, grandad's fought in WWI, my dad WWII, and my brother in VIETNAM, so I knew what to expect. I wish all these kids have successful military careers.
Great lakes 73
This was too nice of a video, my RDCs were yelling in our faces it was real 😂
This was fake. I was one of the RDCs in the video
@@actafuknfool what was your name?
They were being nice for the camera. Our RDCs would not let off for two seconds. They were always in someone's face.
I went to boot in 71. Wtf is an RDC. THANXX
@ Recruit Division Commander. Is what (RDC) means. They are drill instructors for the Navy. What did they call them in 71? And thank you for your service.
This is right around the time I went to boot camp. February of 2014. So for me it’s surreal to watch this because it’s the same exact thing I went through. It’s weird to remember that first night and the weeks that followed and how you smile every time you think about it but you probably only smiled a total of two times while there haha.
You had it easy then I went in 95 they did not talk this polite at all they swore humiliated us and broke us down this video is like Disney World compared to mine
They are all stupid. Why didnt they go to the naval academy in anapolis and start out as an officer.
@@mfsports1368: Well guys, back in '63 it was really tough. Lots of smoking, salty language, CC's calling you every name in the book, and not a female in sight. If I sound like an old fart, it's because I am. But as I look back and think of the great time and great friends I made; I would do it all over in a second
@@jerrera45 oh me too I am not complaining about my experience I loved it. I'm complaining how they coddle the kids today. The military needs to be tough It should be implied
I went to navy boot camp in spring 2006. Brings back memories
I was there October 16, 1965. I never regret being a vet. Go Navy
I went through the gate at Camp Berry on August 31, 1961, during the height of the Berlin Crisis. One of the proudest moment of my life. Company 223, Drill Instructor, Sigmalman First Mahoney, from Springfield, MA. Was on the USS Randolph, February 1962. Tasked to recover John Glen, following America's first orbital flight. I was in the Hospital Corps and met him when he was brought aboard for his post-flight physical and debriefing. My brush with history. Pleased and honored to think I am a lifelong member of the greatest fraternity in the world: The United States Navy.
I went through that gate on AUG 30th. COMPANY 418
This vedio shows a boot camp I would have never believed could exist. Went in July '68. Eight weeks of yelling and scrambling around until we became acceptable sailors. We shaved from the top of our ears down to our collarbone. One DI was a 1st class MM and his JDI was a recently graduated SA. The DI was tuff but his JDI was more of a pain in the ass than anything else. Our company ended up being an honors company to everyone's surprise. I thought I was outsmarting the service by joining the Navy to keep from going to the Nam. Had two tours there. Navy Seabees. Surprised me, huh??
That was way more relaxed of an initial arrival phone call than what my son had! He read a script and that was it. No exchange whatsoever allowed. lol! All good though! Thanks to all that serve! God Bless!
That’s weird. I went through in 99-2000 and our calls were similar to the video
@@Tpac19 I went thru in 2020 and they handed us a paper and told us to read it and hang up. My next phone call was a month and a half later.
I went in July 29.1971 and trained in San Diego. Became an Airedale in ordinance. Loved almost everyday.
With new bell-bottom dungaree pants and chambray denim shirts, we all looked like fresh convicts in prison.
My grandfather was a Navy Captain in WWII and The Korean War. He told me some crazy stories of his time from scary, to funny, to mysterious to his honor. William J. Humphries.
I joined the Navy in 1979. Went to boot camp in San Diego. I medically retired out at 15 years after a great career. I would do it all over again if I could move
Thank you for serving to these recruits and all military veterans. Go Navy.
Was there in 84. Company 221, 14th division. Mayfield and Utt were my Company Commanders. Hope both are doing well, would love to shake their hands again.
Check for them on Facebook
I found both of mine on Facebook
I'm very impressed watching this video. The Navy really cares about it's recruits and wants them to succeed. There boot camp is not as rough as the army or Marines. I'm very impressed with the instructors and how they treat the recruits. They want them to succeed and really care about them.
Totally different from when I went through in 1986. Kinder Gentler Navy now.
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I went through NAVY
BOOT CAMP in 1969
Old school NAVY
I was 19 ill be 72 in 2 wks. love to take a walk thru again
I graduated from the Great Lakes Naval Training Center on September 1, 1977. I joined at the age 19 two weeks after I graduated from Philadelphia Olney High School.
I served in the U.S. Navy for 30 years and retired. Now I am a Designer for an engineering firm and have experience for 17 years. I followed the U.S. Navy Core Values: HONOR, COURAGE AND COMMITMENT everyday of my life. Then I created 3 additional Core Values with my profession: MOTIVATION, DETERMINATION AND ACHIEVEMENT. These Core Values help me focus my mission of my company.
Looks pretty different then it did in 1976, but one thing that seemed the same, attention to detail... I remember on the "evening" (more like 0300) of 1-3 we were 'shaken' from our racks by one of our CC's tossing that highly polished galvanized trash can that sat up in front of the barracks (the one you NEVER used) down the middle of the barracks. Our first locker inspection.
I went through Air Force basic in 1976. Cracks me up how each service plans your arrival at night.
Summer in San Antonio TX. HOT !!!! And at night trucks drove by the dorms spraying chemicals in the air to keep the bugs in check. Awful smell while we’re trying sleep.
So different now.
The galvanized trash can were used in San Diego in June 1982 as I remember the words "Wake up Recruits" as passed my swimming test sadly my foot contracted an infection requiring my stay in Balboa, honorable discharge a month later
Dec 7 1977 rtc Orlando . 17 years old..Arrive at 0200 and the fun began. Hit the rack at 0400..Popping tall an hour later!!!.Holy shit!!
I went to Navy boot camp in March of 87 and I waited a little longer than most I was 27 years old and went to R O T C in high school and I wanted my children to have good medical and grow up in that atmosphere my Father was a chief in the Navy and retired the year I graduated high school so I knew discipline and had worked to that point for several years I was the momma figure to most of the younger women and truly it was the best thing I had ever done 3 years later I met the most wonderful man and he was Navy also I only spent 4 years but he had done his 20 and I truly believe my children got what I always wanted for them and I also got two beautiful stepchildren to boot I lost my love in September of 2015 all I can say to anyone joining be polite and do everything they tell you God bless all
Fifty years ago, I entered Navy boot camp at Great Lakes, IL. The first thing said when we arrived was, you got ten seconds to get off this bus and nine of them are gone already. Don't look like much has changed, all in all it was a positive experience.
Great lakes 73 , this is great . All good memories , even happy hour
June 23rd 1966 in San Diego Boot Camp which lasted until September 23rd! Wake up call to becoming a man instead of a boy. Stood on numbers outside the office that processed our entry into the Navy until 1:30am. Ran up to the barracks and slept on bare mattresses, no pillows or anything. Woke up to a garbage can thrown down the middle of the room at 3:30am and found out what it means to start boot camp. Company 363!
"Great Mistakes, IL" LOL. I'm grateful for my Navy enlistment!
Did tdy in great mistakes in '72🤣
Helped me get out of the rut at home. And grew up and got to see a lot of the world. Don’t let lowlifes criticize or cut it down it’s a good choice for a lot of people.
Arrived at Great Lakes RTC back in Nov93 and oh wow what an experience lol never before had seen cold nor snow like they had that winter.
Amazing how that post has changed since back then. Barracks are nice and modern looking as opposed to the old ones we had.
Brings back memories, if I were young enough I'd join again. Best benefits in the world.
TU 168 NTC Orlando Fl. Feb 1977. Turned 18 in Boot Camp. Was in Barracks #8 right by the training ship replica . Have good memories of that time!
I entered the Navy May,1964. I remember my time training at Great Lakes. The buildings look new since I was there.
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We arrived at Great Lakes about 2:00 a.m., on the North Shore Line, getting off and walking as a group up the street to the gate; going in we were directed into a civil war era brick building, and into a room with a long counter running its length. We were given sea bags and told to walk the counter. Behind it were sailors, and as you passed, they threw skivvies, shoes, your dress and undress blues and whites, your socks, your white hats, and then out the door. Boxes were available if you wanted to mail your civies home. Then outside and across the gridiron to another ancient building and into a bay with bunk beds three tiers high, a naked light bulb dangling from the ceiling, and you climbed in and wondered what you had just done to yourself. I was seventeen a high school drop out like, I suppose, most of these kids in this video.
51 years ago, on Sept 24, 1969, I went into the Army as a draftee. I enlisted soon after to get a good school after basic. After training, I went to Vietnam for a year, a bit over a year at Ft Hood TX, and a year in Germany.
Bro I went to boot in 2018 and they were NOT this gentle lmao. It's all for the cameras
Then you must be talking about All Hand Magazine's full length album. That's the one with Judgment & Criticism
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I went to bootcamp in 2000 and was nothing like this. The second we got off the plane and went to the USO the RDC’s aka red ropes where already there waiting for us and asked us to empty our pockets and throw gum or anything we had away that wasn’t our wallet or anything valuable. The second we got on that bus for that 45 minute ride it was as quiet as a pin drop and the video of bootcamp playing on the TV’s and once we got there they were already on the bus yelling at us to get off and get into the processing building and stand at attention near the bulkhead aka wall. Ahh the good ole memories of that place lol 😂. I do miss it
I was born and raised in the Navy. So, when I went to bot camp, I felt I was home.
"Every day is a training day."
I halfway expected him to start quoting Sgt Apone there.
Went to Great Lakes boot camp on April 17, 1973. This video is a huge difference. Like there was a company commander and that was all we saw. Turned 18 in boot camp. The company commander spanked me with a watch belt (it didn’t hurt very much as I was laughing throughout it).
Like John, I graduated from Grake Lakes boot camp in January 1984. Later in my Navy adventure we had the gulf war and I was on the USS Midway which was heading to the gulf.
I arrived at Great Lakes in Aug 1975, about 12:30 am, hit the rack at 2:am, woke at 5:00 am, missed breakfast because i took my time and was in the back of the line, when i sat down to eat, our CC yelled, ' company 179, fall out, by the time lunch rolled around at 11:30 am, i was hungry as hell as i had not ate since 9:00 am the previous day, learned my 1st lesson, from then on, i was always near the front of the line, i never thought i would say this, but i miss those days.
My Daddy is Senior Chief Ewing. I love and miss him everyday ❤❤😓 5:20
That was my dad too…
I remember the Great Lakes a little bit. Still can't believe I don't have my gear those were some memories. I still can't believe I joined the US Navy because I'm trinidadian. I still love the US Navy wish I relive those experiences in my mind.
You're name isn't Sean, is it?
This is weird seeing this , it's been 50 yrs
Went to boot camp in San Diego.. 92-96 AO here ... go Navy! 🇺🇸❤️
I joined the Naval Reserve at Freeport,NY,as a CT striker in the 50's.Yep the 50's.First required 2 week cruise was to boot camp at Bainbridge,MD.Boarded the PRR from Penn Station to Perryville MD.Met by Navy school bus which headed to Port Deposit but made a right turn half way there and proceeded to NTC Bainbridge.There were 5 regiments spread over the hills.We were assigned to the rec area in the 4th reg,on top of the hill.There was a mock-up of a navy vessel on one corner of the grinder.The big accomplishment was learning to march and stay in step....Join the Navy and see the world...more on that later.Bainbridge was being reactivated due to the Cold War/Wooden barracks/2 stories high and that was it.Stay tuned for more.Thxs for your interest,,,b
The good old Pennsy! Did you ever have a GG1 heading up your consist at that time in particular?
I went to naval nuc power school at Bainbridge in 1975.
I was at Bainbridge in 1974 and I recall the abandoned buildings that were last used in the Korean war I think, I walked around them and found a newspaper in good condition from 1953 laying on the ground. I would have been in a lot of trouble if I was caught in that off-limits area.
@@jessicaburdell7779 I'm guessing that it would have been a G as that was the Pennsy's main locomotive on the corridor.
this makes it look better than the official video i've seen. follow the rules do your time. have a good career.
I graduated Navy Bootcamp in the summer of 81 at NTC San Diego! I went on to become a Boatswain's Mate, and serve on 3 different Warships all through the 80's, sailing all over the world (2 WestPac Cruises, 2 MEDCRUISE cruises, plus tons of other little deployments, mostly in the Caribbean! ! I also went to at least 3 fire fighting schools, other than the Bootcamp training! No regrets! I had a blast! :)
I graduated NTC SD spring 82 went to IC school there and on to DDG2 we did alot of caribbean sailing too it was great
Boot camp has changed alot since I went in 1986. We were screamed at and called every name in the book
Ahh 😌 the good ole days. I will never forget going into the head one time and seeing a poem written on the stall that said “I made love in France, I made love in Spain, I even made love off the coast of Maine, but I won’t be happy until I see the navy get fucked like the navy fucked me”. I missed Great Mistakes when I went through there in 2000
I went through NTC RTC San Diego in July 1976. Proud Navy Vet!
Yes I remember Navy so wonderful experience,
Wow, those chiefs actually seemed to care, and that’s not an insult. A kinder, gentler Navy than what I remember. I do think there’s a benefit to dialing up the pressure, though.
Part2...Our company commander was BSN mate first class named Barnes,Rumor said he was married to an Admirals daughter.Bainbridge assigned us to class A..ET school at Treasure Island CA. About six of us were sent via B&O and Union Pacific the Overland route to the Bay Area.TI sat in the middle of San Francisco Bay,Oakland to the east,SanFrancisco to the west and Alcatraz to the north.Took side trips to L.A. and the wine country...the best.Cable cars still climbed Nob Hill on the way to Fisherman's Worf and Coit Tower.....On graduation we were assigned Naval Security Station,Washington DC for more security training.Join the Navy and see the USA in your Chevrolet!Our next assignment was Brooklyn,and the MSTS flagship the General Marine Rose,the most decorated General of the 2nd world war. Six of us and 1500 soldiers and airmen set sail of South Hampton the six of us were sent on to US Naval Facility,London.We arrived at night and were assigned a B&B on Sussex Gardens,Paddington.{before the bear} The so called facility was 17 N Audley st.the Offices of IKE during the war.A few blocks north the street was called Baker St the home at 221B was famous, need I say more.Our next assignment was BPE Bremerhaven Port of Embarcation.One morning I went down to pick up the mail and ran into Barnes...now a chief and in Electronics it was a pleasure.The base's a German navy school for sub mariners. The old salts claimed it to be the best duty station in the world's say all of us...Stay tuned....
Ahhh that brings back some memories! Uniforms were different 16 years ago though.
Just graduated from bootcamp 6 months ago and i found this video interesting
MAN...................I would have LOVED this easy stuff.
Not like it was back in my day. LOL!!!
Went thru USAF basic training at Lackland back in 1981. Did 8 years after that. Some didn't pull through. Basic wasn't as nice like this. Tough TIs (Training Instructor). But the pride of completing Basic and Tech School was such a life experience and gift to one self.
Wow..you are right..this is nothing like Air Force Basic..i was in at 85..but kudos to anybody that joins any branch!
This video is from 9 years ago. The only reason the RDC’s are being nice here is because the cameras are on them. Trust and believe this was only what they wanted the public to see. Shit isn’t actually sweet like this for real. We got our asses handed to us everyday and they broke us down mentally. Our boot camp is definitely harder than anything the Air Force does.
I arrived at Camp Berry in Great Lakes on August 12, 1972. It was a different world, that’s for sure.
Awesome gig
I volunteered Oct 8th 1964 and this is nothing like we experienced exiting the bus to the grinder Great Lakes Training Center! A whole different process with a petty officer rather loudly instructed in no uncertain terms in less than civil terms what's expected. Watch Full Metal Jacket and you'll get some of the Rogers and day to day life at that time period. we'll before the " New Navy " came about!
I went through Sep '95. Bootcamp was a lot different then. I actually enjoyed it, though. I was an FMF Corpsman 8404 so I spent almost my whole time in with Marines but I do miss my shipmates from Bootcamp
Urgh, Doc.🇺🇸
1992 I shipped out to beautiful NTC San Diego.... Alot better than Great Mistakes.
I love basic army-enjoyed being hollered at
I had my boot camp in Feb !956 in San Diego and it was the worst time of my life, but at least I wasn't at Great Lakes, where I have to fight the cold too. I had never depended on others until I went to boot camp. There you are forced to depend on others.
WOW!!! things have really changed since I was in boot camp in March '64
My basic training at great lakes in September 1987 was much tougher with my drill instructors with PO 1 Santiago and Chief Connan.
I remember laying in my rack and those two coming in with a stick and garbage can as your 2 am wake up day 1 and throwing it down the deck and the yelling beginning and the start of breaking us down and building us back up as United States Navy sailors the next 8 weeks.
Same year shipmate. San Diego. Could of been a 4 star admiral by now???
I thought I was never that young looking.
At age 17 I reported to Great Lakes on June 30, 1960.
A year later I was sworn in as a Midshipman at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. Spent 24 years as a Submariner before retiring.
I graduated from navy boot camp in July
1969 Damm it sure has changed
I commend these young men and women who stepped up and signed on the dotted line. I entered Army Basic training 24 years ago as a Reservist, and during my 6 year enlistment I saw Europe, the Caribbean, and three trips to Asia, including a 1 year deployment. It was difficult at times, a lot of fun once in a while, and a tremendous life experience that I look back on with great pride.
Very easy going for basic training.
My start Great Lakes thanks PO Marks!!
Such a nice reception.
It's just a haze-fest, pure and simple!
A great deal of pride in yourself when you graduate basic training. Then the reality set in when you hit the fleet your just another warm breathing body.
Was there winter 78-79 spent alot of time shoveling the grinder, two months of 17, best decision i ever made.
12:15, the RDC talks about sending a good product to the fleet. My Senior CC, EMC Aguado, stressed to us the following, "Look, people. You are the ones that are going to be taking our spots out there. You are the ones that will be replacing us. That's why EM1 Frilles and I have to ensure that we send you out there prepared. Understand?"
Hell of a lot different than my arrival in Dec. 1962!!!😊
We used to smoke cigarettes and ate "geedunk" while shining our boots in Boot camp. Co 295 RTC San Diego. Not very healthy back then.
Great Lakes 1974 , I went in February , all I took with me was 20.00 for food . My recruiting officer was in my fire department,so I had may options I could pick main was Seabees or firefighter . , thanks Co Parker . I’ll never forget his … I’m a supersonic shit bird ….
I was there , took fireman was a Bt
Did that in '72. Seems a lot nicer than they were to us.
Man, we didn't get to talk with the outside world until the 3 rd week of boot camp, 1976 Army, Ft Jax. S.C.
Bless each one of you. Thank you for serving your country.
Boot camp 1966 San Diego. Yes they taught us unity. More importantly they taught discipline and organization. I hated it but I know it was the best thing that ever happened to m, that is why I have survive. Juanito
NTC San Diego January 1966 Company 045 SM1 Wayman Hester was our Company Commander.
Brings back memories. 011096/ship 12/Div 001.
I reported to SD Dec 28th 1983 and my company was commissioned Jan 2nd 1984.
And I must say they are going easy on these kids now days.
I graduated from the Great Lakes Naval Training Center in June of 1976. Then on to retire in September of 1997.