I attended BE&E School, and IC-A School in 1969.  Lived in Snipes Castle, stood tornado watches, and I remember when they first let us keep civvies in our lockers on base.  I went to Nuke School in Mare Island (Vallejo, CA) in Jan. 1969, then S1W Prototype in Idaho in July.  Then the USS Enterprise for an all-expenses-paid trip to Vietnam.  I ended my six-year with a couple of years of new construction in Virginia (USS South Carolina, DLGN-37).  The South Carolina has already been decommissioned, and the Enterprise is due to be decommissioned this year.  I went to Boot Camp in Orlando, FL, when it was brand new, and it's history already, too.  No nuke school in Mare Island any more, either.  I guess I'm next in line for decommissioning.  Maybe I'll be able to skate by this, too.