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"In Company 016 (11/1968) we were in tennis shoes for the first two weeks then Boondockers and leggings until week 6 when we took the leggings off, cut our belts and switched from ball caps to white hats. Some of this I remember like yesterday. I…"
"Yes - I knew it was long gone. Amazing, it was newly born when I became a boot in November 1968 and long past now. Thanks for the comment."
"Posted pictures from Company 016 on Navy Vets and Picasaweb Navy Vets - Orlando RTC Album or Picasweb Orlando RTC Company 016 Album"
"Actually I enlisted from Columbia. I'm the only Yankee in my family. My dad came up here after WWII. I was living with my maternal GM when I enlisted so AFEES intake was at Fort Jackson which my paternal GM used to own a part of. My Aunt, his…"
"I want to correct our Company Commander's name which was LeRoy A. Schouest GMGC. We were Company 16 1st Regiment 3rd Battalion. I still have our Rudder which says we commenced training 5 November 1968 and completed training 24 January 1969. I…"
"Company 016 11/68-01/69. Company 001 was still in boot when when I came aboard. Our company commander was Gunner's Mate Chief Schuest. The group I was with took a train down from Columbia, SC because a coastal hurricane had closed Columbia (CAE)…"
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Location
Chicago, IL
Birthday:
August 13
Rank
Petty Officer Second Class
Where were you or your family stationed?
NTC/RTC Orlando, Florida Company 016 11/68-01/69 NCTC Pensacola, Florida 1/69-6/69 USS Jamestown AGTR-3 7/69-11/69 RadRecFac, Imperial Beach, CA 12/69-11/71 SUSLAK , Seoul Korea 11/71-04/73 TAD - USS Providence CLG-6 9/70 & 1971 TAD - USS Chicago CG-11 1971 TAD - USS Ticonderoga CVS-14 1971
Veteran of Foreign War
Vietnam
Current Status with the US Navy
Honorably Discharged
Start date of your service
November 4, 1968
End date of your service
April 3, 1973
Comments
Hi David, Not often I see something about Orlando RTC boot. I was in Company 4 under CPO Toland. I now live in Orlando. (I did then. I thought I was headed for GLNTC but ended up about 15 miles from home.) Did you know the training center os gone? They tore it down.
Hey I hear y'all Brother...I think I post our company pics in my pics...Great to know y'all...yea I went from there to NAMI there at Mainside in Pensacola as a Research Subject for NASA...and then sent to the USS Lexington CVT-16 till I got out in '73...Flew Zero G flights and Lunar flights in KC 135 with the Air Force...
Damn it man...y'all went through boot at around about the same time...my shipmate Gerald Hargis and I went through...I also rode the train from Columbia, SC...I was raised in Newberry, SC and born in Charleston...How in the world did y'all wind up riding a train out of Columbia when y'all are from Chicago...?