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  Jerry Ballard(sw)SH1Ret December 1, 2012 at 3:01pm

  BOOT CAMP SAN DIEGO, CA JULY 1974

  Had long hair and the Barber asked me, " Do you want to keep your side burns"? and I told him yes please!

  So he gave them to me and put them in my hands!

  
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  Jerry Ballard(sw)SH1Ret September 11, 2012 at 9:16pm

  He was there when I went to Boot Camp in 1974
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  Larry Penatzer September 7, 2012 at 2:17am

  Capt French was the CO when I was there in 1986.
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  Richard Galen Watts September 5, 2012 at 11:32am

  Wow, I am so glad that I found this site. I was in RTC San Diego as a member of Company 86-184. My Company Commander was PCC J. Rogers. I wonder whatever happened to him?
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  Mr Michael J. Kaczor I September 3, 2012 at 4:18pm

  Capt. French was the CO when I was there in '75 Co. 904. He was a freind of my dad's and I think they went to Command and General Staff School in Ft. Levenworth together.
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  Lawrence "Ski" Gorski August 17, 2012 at 2:30pm

  Hey Jerry, I remember Capt. French.  He was the CO while I was there on my second tour of duty at RTC San Diego, boot camp being the first.  I was a red roper (Company Commander), Division Adjutant and senior enlisted in the Recruit Affairs Office (located under the Command Master Chief's Office).  I made Master Chief there then came back 3  1/2 years later as the Command Master Chief when we shut her down in 1994.  Last recruits were out of there before the holidays in 1993.
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  Jerry Ballard(sw)SH1Ret July 27, 2012 at 8:33pm

  Thought some of you might enjoy this song...Ya I know it's not about Boot Camp but heck it's an Sailing song.

   
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  H. Buning July 27, 2012 at 6:33pm

  I remember Capt. Bivins' name....at the time, of course, we

  had to know the entire chain of command, but Capt. Bivins

  is the only one I remember. I also remember watching for

  officers and P.O.s involved in recruit training that we had to

  salute (AND call "attention on deck!" for). Sometimes you

  had to, and sometimes you didn't, it was a bit nerve-wracking.

  I sympathize with the guy who shouted "There's one!", LoL.
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  Thomas Collier July 27, 2012 at 6:22pm

  Johnny

  I would not have been surprised if the whole company was given the refresher course. It always seem to happen in our company.  Learned the true meaning of "the grinder!" 
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  Mike Nigro July 26, 2012 at 7:58pm

  Richard..that's funny. I thought I heard them all. The Legal Office was down the hall from my office. It had two long sitting benches at the main entrance. It was not unusual to regularly see four or five recruits sitting on each bench who were being processed for a fraudulent enlistment. If I recall correctly they processed out about 30 a week.