Recruit Training Command, Orlando Florida
RTC Orlando Veterans Roll Call online
Roll Call for all former recruits, Company Commanders, and staff stationed at RTC Orlando.https://rtcorlandoreunion.com/rtc-orlando-veterans-roll-call-entry/We held our first reunion this month and it was a blast! If you haven't already, please join our group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/RTCOrlandoReunion/ The next reunion is scheduled for October 9-14, 2018 in Orlando, Florida. Please SAVE THE DATE!
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NTC ORLANDO , I BELIEVE THE CLOSING OF THIS BASE CONTRIBUTED TO THE ADMIRAL COMMITING SUICIDE.
Any of my old recruits or CC's. I started in RTC Orlando on March 1978. Iran the Holding Company , Clothing Issue and the Stencil room. Then was then CC for the following companies:
Company 243 - 09/16/1978 MMC Py & MM2 Buck
Company 011 - 10/17/1978 MMC Py
Company 052 - 01/02/1979 MMC Py
Company 185 - 09/06/1979 MMC Py & BTC Salvador
Company 004 - 10/02/1979 MMC Py & BT1 Crain
Company 039 - 11/30/1979 MMC Py & ETC Ward
On 02/30/1980 I was advanced to MMCS then became a Instructor at the Fireman Apprentice School.
Navy ships I sailed on were USS Intrepid CVS11, USS Mount McKinley AGC7, USS Basilone DD824, USS Johnston DD821, USS Spiegel Grove LSD32 & USS Lexington CV16.
I was advanced to MMCM March 1983 Was the Command Master Chief for the Spiegel Grove then US Naval Ship Yard. I retired on March 1985
Jan 1979 to March 1979
Was in K076 - anyone else? :-)
@ Julie Allen - Thanks! I intended to do my four years and get out but I kept re-enlisting. I did get out for a while but came back home and enjoyed every minute of it!
May 1984-August 1984. Best experience .
Arrived RTC Orlando Nov 1969 from Naval Medical Center, Bethesda Naval Hosp. Assigned to Recruit Evaluation Unit. Enjoyed working with recruits for a year, than transferred to Naval Hosp, Orlando. Spent most of my off hours at the enlisted men's club at NTC and Daytona Beach. Great duty, great place ,great memories, sad it is all gone!
attended boot camp, NTC San Diego Aug-Oct 1968, sadly, it is gone too!
Ted Blair HM2
Served from Feb. 1969 to Dec. 1974 - Nuke IC-1
Original Co. 072/077 at RTC Orlando - 4 of us were sent to the new boot camp from the Los Angeles Induction Center. Everyone else in my company was from Georgia and Louisiana. Went on to NTC GLakes since there were no schools yet at Orlando. Served aboard the USS Enterprise, plank owner of USS South Carolina.
NAVET from April 89 through June of 89