Navy Graduation

[BigOgre]

I know a few here spent some time in our Navy. My neighbor's son is graduating at this very moment and his family sent out this link. Thought some of you might enjoy going back in time.

https://navylive.dodlive.mil/2018/03/30/navy-recruit-graduation-march-30-2018/

 

[its just rain]

Been there, great memories.

 

[Polarize]

Very nice - thanks for sharing. My niece went through there a few years back. Changed her life.

 

[Fred W]

My own boot camp was down in Orlando. Sad to hear that is no longer in operation. But I spent the first 3 years of my enlistment at Great Lakes. Its a tough place in the winters, but not so bad the rest of the year

 

[08FJR4ME]

I never got to serve but I do remember both of my sons graduations from boot camp.

Very impressive,

Dave

 

[Auburn]

My own boot camp was down in Orlando. Sad to hear that is no longer in operation. But I spent the first 3 years of my enlistment at Great Lakes. Its a tough place in the winters, but not so bad the rest of the year

I went to nuclear power school in Orlando.

 

[Brodie]

That was COOL!

Thanks for sharing the link.

Brodie

 

[bigjohnsd]

The Younger Generation will do is all proud!

 

[rbentnail]

How come they're indoors? Pussies....

My boot was Orlando in the summer, then Great Lakes for A School, then back to Orlando for nuke school.

 

[Uncle Hud]

Thanks for the memories, Mets Man!

Orlando was my boot camp -- that base is now a residential subdivision around Lake Baldwin. (Clicky.) Got snow in GLAKES prior to Halloween (ET school), and was glad as I could be to head south again. Returned to Orlando for nuke training, then out to the submarine fleet.

Navy boot camp changed your niece's life, Polarize? Did for me, as I bet it did for 99% of the folks that graduated.

 

[rbentnail]

Thanks for the memories, Mets Man!
Orlando was my boot camp -- that base is now a residential subdivision around Lake Baldwin. (Clicky.) Got snow in GLAKES prior to Halloween (ET school), and was glad as I could be to head south again. Returned to Orlando for nuke training, then out to the submarine fleet.

Navy boot camp changed your niece's life, Polarize? Did for me, as I bet it did for 99% of the folks that graduated.

^ Yep!! I was chatting with a couple guys the other day about it. Tell us Hud if true or not, small changes taught in the service last a lifetime. Like folding underwear.... I have no idea why but I freak out and refold everything my wife does b/c it's not the way we learned to do it in boot.

I left GLAKES (MM school) on Thanksgiving day just about the time it started snowing. A week later Chi-town was buried while I was back in Orlando. Then on to upstate NY for another winter. I started my Navy time completely bass-ackwards. DuhHuh.

Tell us also Hud, got anything left over from boot camp that you still have? Believe it o' not, I do! I still use the knee length rain coat.

 

[Uncle Hud]

No, I no longer fold my underwear, you pervert. (Really, dude, that's .... like .... a very personal question, man.)

Got out of boot camp in 1976. Still have and use my sea bag, and can fit into dress blues jackets, although I don't use them. I wore my peacoat (with the silver buttons) often in Boston during the winters of 2014 and 2015. They're quite fashionable now, and as warm as ever. Got a ball cap, boot camp issue, but lost my dixie cup; they came back just before I was discharged in Pearl Harbor.

I went to Orlando sometime in the mid-1990s, and drove Colonial-Brumby-Corrine as I did many times coming back from Rosie O'Grady's back in the day. Was shocked to see the base was closed and buildings empty/destroyed.

Anyone else want to chime in?

 

[rbentnail]

Ah yes, Rosie O'Grady's

, many a evening there! I can't tell you the last time I went to Orlando. Honestly I don't think I've been there since I left for prototype in '79.