Recruit Training Command, San Diego, California
RTC/NTC SAN DIEGO COMPANY 270
I am hoping to connect with any of my shipmates from Company 270. Are any of you guys out there? Please say Hello.
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I am hoping to connect with any of my shipmates from Company 270. Are any of you guys out there? Please say Hello.
Read more…I would like to re-connect with any recruits from co. 788 from Nov. 12, 1968- Jan 30 1969 I still have my "ANCHOR" and all the names of my company mates. We were an outstanding group of sailors and I'd like to share comments about the rest of your Naval service THAT'S COMPANY 788 Nov 68- Jan 69 RTC San…
Read more…Lindsey,You are probably right, I think it was the sulfur smell to the boiled eggs. When we had troops aboard the chow was not great, the chow was great when in port and no troops aboard.
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I REMEMBER REPORTING JANUARY 1961. I HAVE BEEN MANY TIMES BACK TO SAN DIEGO AND ALWAYS MAKE IT A POINT TO VISIT THE RTC GROUNDS. MY SON WAS STATIONED AT SD IN THE COAST GUARD. I CAN ONLY TELL YOU THAT IT HAD A LASTING MEMORY THE RTC AND I AM GLAD THE USS NEVER SAIL (LOL) IS STANDING TALL AND IN NEED OF PAINT BUT STILL A SYMBOL OF CAMP, ODLY ENOUGH, I ONLY MET ONE OTHER GRADUATE DURING MY SERVICE TO OUR GREAT NATION.
Mr. Coffman, I wish I could see the differences between Boot camp in your day and 20 years later. I bet it had changed a lot more than from '72, when I was there, to '92, when the Navy was getting ready to close San Diego and consolidate all basic training at Great Lakes! :)
Any one out there that was in RTC San Diego back in April of 1951? most of our company went aboard the USS Iowa BB 61
I did get stationed with one guy from my bootcamp company on our first two duty stations after boot. We ended up at ACB-1 in Coronado for our first year, then another two years aboard LST-1166.
"Hawkeye" credited me with getting him through bootcamp, as he wasn't that sharp when it came to book learnin'. He had asked if he could copy a few answers during one of the harder written tests, and I told him to try and sit one row to the right of me, and one seat behind for a good view, and don't get caught! He didn't, and he graduated. We were separated for our last duty stations, with me ending up with a six month early out due to cutbacks, and I lost track of him ever since.
I left RTC on May 9, '72, and after the 2 weeks of boot leave, I reported to NAS Memphis, where many of the 'A' schools for aviation technical ratings were located. I ran into a dozen or so guys from my company (086) in the first week, but didn't really keep in touch for very long. Two guys from the company wound up in a sister aviation squadron, where we ran into each other every so often, but again, we weren't close friends. Since the advent of the internet, I've posted occasionally on sites like this, but never have made contact with anyone from my boot camp company.
it's kind of funny the last ship I was on was the Coral Sea, on board for 11 months August 13th 1962 my discharge date as I was sitting in the launch to go ashore I ran into 2 others that I'd gone through boot camp with. 11 months and I'd never seen either one. our company was either 301 or 501 it's been too long