On the way to submarines
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Topic: On the way to submarines
Posted By: Dave595
Subject: On the way to submarines
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2020 at 7:54pm
Not necessarily sub related but, 60 years ago this month in boot camp we trained on the USS Recruit (TDE - ). Thought some of you might want to see her again.
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Posted By: gcconnor1
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2020 at 8:06pm
58 Years ago for me on Feb 20th!!!!!
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Posted By: bob dubois
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2020 at 5:23am
57 years
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Posted By: Tom McNulty
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2020 at 9:11am
I never stepped aboard. Don't know why but perhaps it's when the company did but I was a week in sick bay with the measles. This would have been March 1963. Didn't do service week either. I was the company MAA so I was the one the company commander told to make up the watch list for service week. Needless to say, I opted out. The company commander knew I was a Sea Scout up to the age of 16 so he knew I didn't need the USS Recruit experience.
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Posted By: Bgurls
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2020 at 9:48am
62 years ago this date I was at RTC GLAKES enjoying the balmy winds off Lake Michigan. Caught strep, nobody cared.
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Posted By: ftg1ss
Date Posted: 13 Feb 2020 at 5:14pm
43 for me, guess I'm just a youngster
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Posted By: SaltiDawg
Date Posted: 13 Feb 2020 at 7:07pm
60 years for me - Company 280 RPOC.
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Posted By: jack mcpherson
Date Posted: 14 Feb 2020 at 6:44am
66 years for me
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Posted By: Dr. Stan
Date Posted: 14 Feb 2020 at 8:07pm
60 years this summer. I didn't know the old USS Neversail was still "sailing". I still remember the main task I had was polishing the brightwork. Also learned that you go up the ladder on the starboard side and down on the port side. Or was it the other way around?
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Posted By: Runner485
Date Posted: 17 Feb 2020 at 9:47am
Yer right Stan...Up starboard down port.
And I too had a case of strep. A horrible way to start boot camp. UGH!
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Posted By: Tom McNulty
Date Posted: 17 Feb 2020 at 2:17pm
In the beginning, Measles. At the end Pneumonia.
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Posted By: JrKrup, Skimmer
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2020 at 12:21am
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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Posted By: bob dubois
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2020 at 5:36am
I got to San Diego right after Spinal Meningitis cleared up.
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Posted By: Dr. Stan
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2020 at 11:45am
Does anyone know if there was a USS Neversail at the Great Lakes boot camp?
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Posted By: Sewer Pipe Snipe
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2020 at 2:12pm
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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Posted By: Dave595
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2020 at 2:50pm
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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Posted By: 610ET
Date Posted: 28 Feb 2020 at 11:58pm
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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Posted By: SaltiDawg
Date Posted: 29 Feb 2020 at 9:19am
Dr. Stan wrote:
...Also learned that you go up the ladder on the starboard side and down on the port side. Or was it the other way around?
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Up and Forward to STBD, Down and Aft to Port...
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Posted By: 610ET
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2020 at 9:46pm
Posted By: Rontini599
Date Posted: 25 Mar 2020 at 5:56pm
Jack was my EM CPO on the 599 way back. He is 85 and doing good.
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