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Tom McNulty
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In the beginning, Measles. At the end Pneumonia.
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JrKrup, Skimmer
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June 1963 San Diego boot camp. There was a big outbreak of Spinal Meningitis. They had reduced companies going through. Normal was 4 companies per "H" shaped barracks, We had one company per barracks. Instead of 6 squads, we had 4 with one squad taking up what would normally be a whole company - 80 men. It didn't hit us, but a couple guys got sent to the hospital and we never saw them again. In other companies, recruits died during the night. Those companies got quarantined. then split up. They shortened our company down to just a few weeks, never did mess cooking or service week. We also got penicillin pills, probably 3 times a day. They ran us through really quick.
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Jon Krup, Skimmer - Minesweeps
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bob dubois
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I got to San Diego right after Spinal Meningitis cleared up. |
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Bob DuBois SK1(SS)
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Dr. Stan
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Does anyone know if there was a USS Neversail at the Great Lakes boot camp? |
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Sewer Pipe Snipe
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I know there was a steam plant laid out like an engine room, but can't remember if it was a part of a fake ship.
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Walt,
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Dave595
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USS Recruit (TDE-1): She appears to be the only surviving example
of the Navy's landlocked ships, or "landships".
Her predecessor, USS
Recruit, also known as the Landship Recruit, was a wooden mockup of a
dreadnought battleship constructed by the United States Navy in Manhattan in
New York City, as a recruiting tool and training ship during the First World
War. Commissioned as if it were a normal vessel of the U.S. Navy and manned by
a crew of trainee sailors, Recruit was located in Union Square from 1917 until
the end of the war. In 1920, with the
reduced requirements for manning in the post-war Navy, Recruit was
decommissioned and dismantled, having recruited 25,000 sailors into Navy
service.
USS Commodore (401B),
also known as R.T.S. Commodore, was a landlocked "dummy" training
ship of the United States Navy, located at the United States Naval Training
Center in Bainbridge, Maryland. Built to
resemble a small escort ship she was equipped with operational guns and
equipment, except for an engine, to allow for the training of sailors in
shipboard operations in a reasonably safe environment during the Second World
War and early Cold War era.
Commodore was
equipped with most of the facilities found on a real ship, including deck guns,
a pilot house, davits with whaleboats, and mooring lines fastened to
earth-bound bollards, so that recruits could even learn the proper casting off
of hawsers and other lines connecting the ship to its dock. She was dismantled
when the base closed in the 1970s.
The USS Bluejacket a
mockup of a destroyer escort, located at Orlando Air Force Base in Florida (The Navy moved in in 1968, building a training facility for
recruits and renamed it Naval Training Center Orlando.), was commissioned 3 May 1969 when the Florida Citrus Queen smashed a bottle
of orange juice over her bow. She was also
dismantled when this base closed 31 March 1995.
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EM1(SS)
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610ET
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Great Lakes Boot 9/65 - 1/66. Two different companies because I was hospitalized with pneumonia. No recollection of the Recruit.
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SaltiDawg
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Up and Forward to STBD, Down and Aft to Port... |
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610ET
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Duplicate.
Edited by 610ET - 13 Mar 2020 at 9:47pm |
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Rontini599
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Jack was my EM CPO on the 599 way back. He is 85 and doing good.
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My heroes wear dog tags, not shoulder pads
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