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  • Mark D. Mayer May 24, 2015 at 10:32am

      I did my basic Aug 74 , I was in company 259 my company commander was EM1 Butcher. WE won the color company award we were two flags from honor.    Great shipmates, if you know or served you can e-mail me at markmayer31@yahoo.com

  • Stephen L Waters March 12, 2015 at 2:00am

    Arrived in Dec. 1968 for BP&E school then BT/A school. Coldest winter in my life, for a Florida boy.

  • Daniel Lee Campbell May 20, 2014 at 8:25am

    I also worked at the Transient Personnel Unit at Great Lakes from July 1972 until November 1975.

  • Daniel Lee Campbell May 20, 2014 at 8:20am

    PERSONNEL SUPPORT DETACHMENT APR 1987 TO AUG 1992

  • Chuck Holcomb May 17, 2014 at 2:11pm

    I attended boot camp at Great Lakes in November '76, Company 356, but I wound up back in GLakes about a year later, working at Bldg 2023, Cold Storage with a great bunch of civil service guys, another sailor and an army vet specialist, who inspected the food. Delivered all those yummy frozen eggs to recruit side, plus fresh and frozen edibles to main side, hospital side and even the odd trip to NAS Glenview from time-to-time. Not the most illustrious of naval careers, but I count it a great privilege to have served in any capacity.

  • Willie Brown March 28, 2014 at 9:10am

    Boot Camp-Company 001, 1967. BP&E/EN-A, 1967. EN-C, 1968/69(8-268, 12-567, 16-278.

    SFC Sheets Boot Camp

  • Randal E Waldon March 17, 2014 at 4:58pm

    I did my apprentice training here after boot camp March - April 1983. On to the USS SEATTLE as a striker in engineering. I ended up striking in the IC rate.

  • Kenneth Edwin Griffin March 2, 2014 at 9:05am

    August 1966, Company 516, Company Commander QM1/SS Lathrop.

  • Robin Bear January 21, 2014 at 1:44pm

    Attended ET "A" School Aug '81 - Apr '82.  That was another polar vortex winter!

  • David M. Kent January 18, 2014 at 11:11pm

    LOOKING FOR ANYONE FROM 1966 COMPANY 114 R.L. PEOPLES CO. COMMANDER

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FEB 1966 COMPANY 114 CO. Commander R.L. Peoples

Looking for anyone who was in this Company.On the day of scheduled departure R.L. Peoples said"I've got some good news and some bad news"The bad news is you are all so screwed up you get to stay and march more.The good news is you get to spend some more time with me.He was a sadistic Company Commander.I remember "were gonna have some smoking choking and cokeing.On the coke and cigarette break he would stick his thumb in some young recruitsadams apple. He never did it to someone his own…

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Company 444 Sept 1963

How could I forget, Boot camp started Sept 12 1963  COMPANY 444  our graduation day was Nov 22 1963, we all know that terrible day, needless to say our festivities, pass in review and the rest were cancelled no Ceremony at all. Sad day for all. Lots of parents families and friends came for nothing.

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IC-A School

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…

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