Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes is located in Northern Chicago, Illinois
Reunion,for 12th.Div.Company 377,Cobra Company,October 01,1986
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Read more…Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes is located in Northern Chicago, Illinois
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Read more…GREAT LAKES ILLINOIS,RTC/NTC,GRADUATE.BOOTCAMP,(airman recruit).12th.division,company 377/cobra company.Oct 01,1986-jan31,1987.graduated distinction.I was a e-1.northern chicago. I love chicago,my city.chris,usn/dav/prm.2018.20180623_015516_kindlephoto-138102106.jpg
Read more…HELLO HOW,ARE YOU SAILORS DOING?THIS SAILOR IS DOING GREAT.I WAS IN BOOTCAMP AT GREAT LAKE'S,ILLINOIS.OCTOBER01,1986THRU. JANUARY 31,1987,ALSO COMPLETED AIRMANAPPRENTICESHIP SCHOOL,RIGHT AFTER BOOTCAMP,AT THE SAME PLACE.MY DIVISION WAS 12th.DIV.MY COMPANY WAS 377.IS THERE ANY SAILORS,OUT THERE THAT WAS WITH ME.
Read more…Hey, shipmates!Anyone out there who was part of Company 053 at Great Lakes in early 1972? Bill DitewigRPOC, Co. 053
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Cold? Understatement. I remember the double penalty of having to shovel snow so we could march.
Waiting in long cold lines outside with that itchy wool watch cap on.
You know, I am almost thinking (now) that I miss those days!
I was there when it was cold and there was three feet of snow! You were lucky Michael. Oh, and if I am not mistaken, I think there was a record snowfall sometime within the time you were there and I was. I seem to remember them (company commanders in staff training where I worked) talking about a major snow a few years earlier...Stick probably knows, and may have been there when it happened in fact.
Feb 69 to May or June
then home for a couple weeks and then Memphis NATTC for AME and then NAS Albany Georgia with RVAH3 (RA5C Vigilantes squadron) and finally RVAH1 at NAS Albany.
Incidentally Michael, your experience may have been the incident that we heard about and helped to save a lot of recruits from suffering a similar fate. Kudos to ya brother!
I guess the stories we heard were true then. We were warned that guys who jumped down from the top bunk the next morning after the horrible shot collapsed!
Hate to hear you were one of them Michael :(
I remember when we were waiting in that room for the shot and had been told to be silent and a fellow in front of me whispered something to another guy and a first class pulled him out of the group and said since he couldn't keep his mouth shut he would get to go first! The look on that poor guys face is one I can still see today...he went pale and there was a frozen look of sheer terror in his face.
Anyway, they ordered him to drop his trousers and bend over and the guy took a syringe and jabbed it in and literally "smacked" the plunger in and the guy yelled and jumped forward a good four feet! Then, before he could do the recommended workout to get the stuff absorbed, he was ordered to sit down on a metal stool and told that he would swab our butts with alcohol as we filed by. After that, you could have literally heard a pin drop to the floor and there were about a hundred of us in that room I bet.
Oh yeah, I remember the ditty bag and ties lol. And the smoke and coke breaks too. They taught us to "field strip" the cigarette butts too.
Did you guys get the dreaded "bicillin" double butt shot? And were either of you top bunkers?
I was so scared that I did so many deep knee bends that I couldn't hardly walk the next morning because my knee joints hurt so bad lol. The shot was rubbed into my backside so much (I did a lot of that too) I barely felt it. But my aching knees....