Attended RTC Orlando Florida January to March 1972. Company 001. We got to go to Disney World for leave the first year it opened. Awsome company of Men. Received orders to USS Butte AE27 Homeport out of Norfolk VA. Flew to Rota Spain then met the Butte in Naples Italy. Alot to experience for a 18 year old. Vietnam December 1972 -July 1973. I loved the Navy and would serve again. Now 71. Thanks to the US Navy for the memories , discipline and character building. Welcome to the old Navy.

I entered Basic in the USAF in 1967. The challenges and camaraderie depicted here somewhat paralleled my experiences, although there appears to be more technical subject training such as firefighting and damage control that I did not experience in basic.

Went through Boot Camp in San Diego in 1970, then on to NAS Memphis for AT A school, the NAS Pax River for C school before flying out to NAS AGANA Guam for the next three !!

The one's that go on to "The Fleet" will not be as cheerful once they are there for awhile.

I was there in 1988

I prayed it would rain in San diego n we would get light duty lol NEVER RAINED ONCE WTF

San Diego 7/90-9/90 181 ty for publishing this was close in company numbers

July 1961 I had just truned 17 and went to San Diego bootcamp. One of the best things I did in my life.

I always enjoyed Mchales Navy.

Mats for doing P.T? Not when I was there in late '79.

I joined the same year 1990. Strangely enough, I live in San Diego yet they sent me to Great Lakes for Boot Camp. Then again my A school was in Mississippi. So it made sense to have me closer to my next duty station after Basic. My favorite memory of Navy BC was the haircuts. I later became an SH and became a Ship Barber(trained at this same NTC in SD for 4 weeks) myself the last few months before leaving the Fleet.

CO 045 RTC San Diego graduated April 1985, served 20 years as a Navy Corpsman and retired 2005!!! Salute Navy brothers!!!

'77 missed all the vaccines as I was in sickbay for a week. No one noticed. Went overseas never ill except in San Diego twice.

Went to boot camp in Great Lakes Il. June 1973 company 212

Navy bootcamp 1995 great lakes

Navy 1982 to 1988 AZ2 VS-41 and VS-33 two west pacs went to San Diego company 200 Oct 82 to Dec 82

This is the REAL U.S. NAVY, when they made you work for every penny of your paycheck, unlike today!

That Navy was great except I never liked the FORCED VAXX PROGRAMS. I'm not a guinea pig but I digress...

I never understood why the navy shut down San Diego. The Marine Corps is smaller and still has two recruit training depots. San Diego had character and a rich history, as well as some fun times. My favorite memory was the shared fence between MCRD San Diego and RTC San Diego. In the morning it was common to see blankets covering the top of the fence. This was from recruits trying to escape to the airport, but only to land onto a USMC DI😂. Those were isolated incidents and all were handled differently.

I graduated there in 1985 company #121

C191, RTC Orlando, July -Sept 1987…good times

0:43 that’s my company 007, Oct-Dec 92. I was the office yeoman. CC’s PN1 Hobart, OM1 DeLeon.

USMC Veteran 83 to 90. You guy always gave us the best rides to battle

USMC, "the Men's Dept. of the Navy" OORAH, Semper Fi!!!

Navy is to SOFT. Civilian Sea Scouts are tougher than navy boot camps of today. I am Old Navy, ashamed of the present ones.

I was in the Army as an Airborne Infantryman or as a Paratrooper. I grew up Navy in a Navy family with my Uncle Chief Maldanado who was a CS on aircraft carriers. I have big respect for the Navy seeing the mighty battle fleet of aircraft carriers and other ships. The US Navy is a projection of power all over the world. My parents sent me to live with my Uncle Chief Maldanado and my Aunt Ashely and my cousins Sim and Jim. I became the third family member, I learned to respect and become part of my own family and the Navy family around respect and obedience to good American tradition. I went from San Deigo, Long Beach, Oxnard, Alameda NAS, and to Pearl Harbor Hawaii. When I finally went back to my parents I appreciated the travel and seeing the discipline of the US Navy. Later I joined the Army after high school to get the crap beat out of me but remembered that the Sailors that served under my Uncle were truly disciplined Sailors.

I was across the bay in Marine boot in 93. Navy boot camp is tame.

1990 Co146 Div5 Colored and Ironman. CCs Master Chief Torres and PO1 Donato was Crack Rifle Drill Team for graduation. Good times! Thanks for posting Michael Peterson! 🫡⚒️🪽AMS1 Michael Peters Retired

I was in company 184 1991

ALoft, there are personnel working aloft...

I thought their recruit training was in Chicago Illinois?

CO 255 Great Lakes Aug88 to Oct 88 then I went to millington tn for a school

Company 085, March 1991 here. CC’s FC1 Claros and SM2 Herring. My father graduated RTC San Diego in 1961! A Family tradition!

Wow very interesting here how they getting ready for where ever they are going to go!

I'm a retired Marine, San Diego, Nov 1983. Most successes take place when they are encouraged to push through a tough environment. Each individual pushes to their limit as they realize others are persevering through the same adversity. That's how healthy competition is built and makes you grow beyond limits.

RTC ORLANDO September 2, 1986 K125

Don't fall asleep in class...I did and the instructor threw an eraser at me and hit me in the forehead..never fell asleep after that. Don't forget the 11 general orders of the sentry. I

Great Lakes...93

Now a bunch of overweight woke kids wearing half Marine Uniforms.

J1969 NTC SAN DIEGO. COMPANY 703 .The training is different from what we were trained. 13 weeks, same as MCRD across Channel from NTC and the Airport. I could see people on the plane as it lands. Shave every day no peach fuzz. Gas chamber remove our masks recite an order from the 11th. General Orders. We March with our 1903 Springfield Rife.

I was over the fence getting wrecked! Hahahahaha!

Hell week

This is the bootcamp I remember. Great Lakes Jan 94 CO 123. Coldest weather this Ga boy ever experienced.

73 greatlakes

I did boot camp in 1975 how much can it change?

Hey kids 😊 company 415 CC was SFC ROSENBLAT i myself retired CWO4 😊

NTC/RTC San Diego. Company 079 May '88. Color Division and Color Company. I was a Navy Sea College Program enlistee. Weren't many of us. As I went the full Delayed Entry (1 year) after joining, I was most likely the last Sea College guy in the Navy. Two year ride, and then off to a 4 - Year institution for our degrees. Loved San Diego. Got apprenticeship training and my active duty command (USS Tripoli), and active reserve command (VF-301) all there, while completing my degree at the U of Arizona.

Never caught it before but, I doubt anyone was in step. The red rope CC (my CC had the blue and gold Aiguillette for drill company) was calling cadence and they were ATFU. 🫡 our drill company, this was the mid 80’s, won every star, diamond and torch. Our CC, he was a signalman (damn flagwaver) was selected as CC of that cycle. I switched branches and went straight into the Army, lost a rank, from STG1 to a SGT. Had to do basic at Dix and was immediately made platoon guide and led PT, marched for every evolution, etc., and was the Distinguished Honor Grad for the division but, didn’t get it because I was prior service. WTF…I could have had free time during basic but, NO…I was the drill SGT’s and their mommy. Would have been an ARCOM but, over my 17 year career in the Army I made up for it. 🫡🫡🫡

January - April 1966, San Diego RTC, Company 026. CC was BM-1 Richter. Navy boot camp was less physical and more mental than I expected. Amazed to feel like I can remember almost every detail of that 3 month experience. Camp Nimitz, the day we "crossed the bridge," the USS Bunker Hill tied up across the water at North Island NAS serving her final duty as an electronic weapons test platform, washing clothes by hand every night and being sure to tie my skivs to the clothesline so the fly faced toward the Marines boot camp nearby.

Company 415 Sept.63 CC was SFC ROSENBLAT, good man 😊