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  Lindsey E. Ford HMC (SW) October 3, 2014 at 12:04pm

  I see someone has seen In Harms Way. Henry Fonda had the line about the Navy never being wrong.
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  Thomas Collier October 2, 2014 at 5:46pm

  JOHNNY, YOU ARE SO CORRECT. HOW MAY TIME DID WE GO "HUH?" OR "ARE YOU SURE?" AND THEN ENDED UP SAYING "WELL IF YOU SAY SO."
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  Thomas Collier October 2, 2014 at 5:28pm

  WHAT WAS THE OLD SAYING? "IF IT MOVES SALUTE IT, IF IT DOESN'T PAINT IT!" WHERE IS THE BOSN? HE NEEDS TO TAKE CHARGE AND GET IT DONE!
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  Jon Yim October 2, 2014 at 5:09pm

  Well...it IS the Navy...where NO SENSE MAKES SENSE!!
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  David W Asche September 8, 2014 at 12:11pm

  Looks like no one has found any paint yet to re-do the hull number on the USS Recruit...   Need to GET-R- DONE!
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  Jon Yim September 4, 2014 at 12:15pm

  I'm a long-time -- and naturalized -- San Diegan...got here in 1976 as a recruit (CO 77-022), then BE/E student at SSC in 1977 and left there as an undesignated SA after flunking-out of the course (infamous Module 14, for those interested)...didn't come back until 1990 as JO1 for Petty Officer NAVLEAD course at NTC/SSC before reporting to my final PCS destination, NAS (now MCAS) Miramar...retired in 1993 from the air station and stayed...
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  Thomas Collier September 4, 2014 at 10:49am

  THAT IS AN OUTSTANDING UP DATE JON, I HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT THE OLD BASE TWICE A YEAR. LIVE IN ARIZONA BUT SAN DIEGO IS OUR VACATION GROUNDS NEXT TO FLORIDA. MORE ATTACHED TO SD THAT FLA.
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  bill fisher September 4, 2014 at 9:49am

  did boot and radio school in 1955. i can't remember my Co# but I still remember the song we sang as we marched past the Yeoman's barracks. We caught hell for that each time!
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  James W Ward September 3, 2014 at 10:36pm

  That is great news, we have hoping something like this would happen.  Next a museum about all us Boots... Been a few years since I was there. 
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  Jon Yim September 3, 2014 at 8:10pm

  USS Recruit – Under Restoration

  
  – AUGUST 29, 2014
  USS Recruit Beautification Project

  The Corky McMillin Companies has joined forces with the USS Midway Museum to get the USS Recruit looking “ship shape” again. McMillin reached out to the USS Midway leadership since they have been so successful restoring the USS Midway. Although the USS Recruit is a wooden structure and not a ship, the Midway staff is providing invaluable expertise and supervision to make sure the detailing is authentic. Local retired and active duty military personnel are enthusiastic about volunteering their free time to help restore USS Recruit. Construction staging for the effort is underway and the make-over will start in earnest in early September and take approximately three months to complete. It will entail exterior prep and painting, replacement of gun mounts, safety ropes and nets, deck fittings, and more.

  The USS Recruit was constructed in 1949 to serve as a general purpose naval recruit training structure for recruits of the former Naval Training Center. It was a sailor’s “first ship” where they learned basic naval procedures inside the classrooms and on and around the ship. Affectionately known as the USS Neversail, it was originally built as a two-thirds scale model of a destroyer escort. In 1982 it was converted to a training guided missile frigate. The USS Recruit saw over 50,000 new recruits annually who eventually served during the crucial decades of the Cold War.

  The USS Recruit has a special place in Naval history as being one of only three mock training vessels ever built, the only one on the pacific coast and the only one still standing. It is a contributor to the NTC Historic District which was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001 and was designated a California Historic Landmark in 2004.