The United States Navy has only one location for boot camp. On the shores of which lake is it located?
Correct answer: Lake Michigan
Mama Crow
"Anchors away, my boys. Anchors away! Farewell to college joys, we sail at break of day...ay...ay... ay!..." LOVE this song! I teach it to my fourth graders every year. Thank you for your service, Navy!
WaldoLydeker
Hence, the famous Navy pier in Chicago.
:(Nancy E):
My Dad was in the Navy. We lived in Great Lakes in 1960-64. We lived in Halsey Village, on Yorktown Street. There was a Saratoga Boulevard, I can’t remember any of the other names right now. We moved to Illinois from Kodiak, Alaska. It was much colder in Illinois than where we lived in Alaska, there is the Japanese Current that keeps Kodiak Island from being brutally cold like the rest of Alaska. Good times to be a child.
Nutshell
Player #4265851, they closed the other training centers after the Cold War ended. There's still a Navy base in San Diego though, so if a girl's lucky she can still catch an eyeful of them training on the beach.... ;-)
Player #4265851
Maybe something has changed, but, in 1973 I was in Navy basic training in Orlando, Florida.
Player #8784512
Miss Pringle, It's aweigh, not away, though!! Go, Navy!!!
LittleTragedy7
Sandyberry, I'm very proud of all Service People Thanks for keeping everyone Safe
Alice
Go Navy⚓
Sandyberry
Nutshell, I remember going to San Diego with my when I was growing up. My sister and I loved watching the guys running by/training. Definitely a nice bunch of eye- candy😍😁
AnonymousCushion7056
1oldmanmudhen, RTC San Diego was decommissioned back in the 90's.
philly
Young people die for old people's profits. Despicable.
BlanketWarrior
:(Nancy E):, We lived in Kodiak for 11 yrs of my husband’s Coast guard service 97-2008. The old Navy base was turned over to the CG! It’s the largest CG base in the US. We loved Kodiak! Mostly raised our kids there!
Werewolf
Sandyberry, MCRD San Diego is also a Marine boot camp. SFMF!
Lionessa
Nutshell, The best day to visit the Zoo is Sunday, liberty day. White-uniformed sailors as far as the eye can see...
Shawn
Player #4265851, So was I in 1976
Player #111750937
Player #8784512, I was in Great Lakes in 1985 when they closed Orlando first time we saw women in boot camp
Katie
Nutshell, I worked at a nursing home that was next to a large park during the late 70’s . The dinning room faced the park. On weekends in the summer one of my coworkers would come to the front and say “ They’re coming!” And we would all scurry to the dining room for our coffee break and drool over the weekend warriors on their run through the park ( their building was a few doors down from the home)😁
Tina M.
I was a teenager in Lemoore, California, and there was a naval air station there. I dated a couple of Navy guys, and they were actually very gentlemanly! I had always heard how you could never trust them.
Lynn
Kat, not mine!
Lynn
Coconutcake49, Bainbridge, Md for me in '61
Lynn
cohelian, my basic training was @ Banbridge, Md
Lynn
Frank Zappa, I Was there in 63 for Hospital Corps school I think boot camp for the men was on the other side and infirmary in the middle!
solopatriot1800
there are more than one I did my basic training in San Diego in 1986
Player #22001137
Player #4265851, NTC Orlando was closed in phases starting with the closure of the Recruit Training Command and Naval Hospital in March 1995, the Service School Command in November 1996, and the Navy Nuclear Power Training Command in December 1998. All operations ceased at the training center on 30 April 1999.
Bjohn
I was there in ‘84
Player #61547029
Player #4265851, I was there, too, in 1976.
Organic Dude
Mama Crow, i play Anchors Away all the time on the trumpet. Great song to teach to kids.
Carl
Player #4265851, yeah Congress closed RTCs Orlando and San Diego in their base-closing mania. The base at San Diego is still there but the RTC is gone. I was at Great Lakes when they were starting to prepare to be the only RTC. That's when they told us women would be coming there (long after we graduated, unfortunately 😆).
Carl
Great Lakes Naval Training Center. I remember it well 😆. My Boot Camp experience I'll cherish for the rest of my life
Anita
LittleTragedy7,
I was born in Elgin, Illinois. Not to very far from Chicago. lived in Carpentersville. School trips to Chicago and trips to Chicago with my parents. Saw the Ringling Brothers and Barnamin Bailey Circus in Chicago. Loved it up there, but nothing beats the place I lived after that. In the Ozarks, Southwest, almost in Arkansas on the Table Rock Lake.
lida
I remember all the sonic booms from the navy fly-overs in the 60's. From great lakes naval air station
Ant
Graduated September 25th 2020 Div. 347 at RTC Great Lakes.
Quarter Pounder
Nutshell, Also one in Lemoore, but it's just gross and hot out there
mmm
To go wayyyyy back my father was in the Navy from 1939-1958. Upon retiring he was asked if he would like to push boots in San Diego. He declined, 20 yrs and 2 wars and his aircraft carrier having been sunk by japanese in 1942. He said thank you but no thank you. His boot training was in Pensacola.
stezo
the USnavy has 3 bootcamps
Colnago CLX
I graduated from boot camp in Orlando Florida.
dj
when I went to boot camp they still had San Diego and one in Florida
Tugboat
Player #48159245, Not no more. Only one now
Tugboat
Nutshell, My baby brother and I became Marines in 1980. The Navy did there basic training across from us.
Tugboat
:(Nancy E):, Chicago is my home, but I now live in Colorado. I lived in Tennessee for awhile after I got out of the Marines