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For some weird reason, the author included an unusual amount of dental procedure photographs. And parade grinder photographs were also in great supply. Plus the first quarter of the book featured the Navy in it's infancy stage in San Diego at Balboa Park. But the focus of the book - as per the title - should have been primarily NTC. Still though, a good look back at history through photographs. My sister found a photo of my father at basic training, and we determined it was taken at San Diego's Naval Training Center in Although my father is no longer with us, reading this book gave us a another bit of insight to his life.

My biggest regret is that it wasn't published in time for us to share it with him, and hear his stories. Matt Hudson rated it liked it Nov 06, Ted rated it liked it Jul 04, Johnson rated it liked it Jul 24, Jessica Savalla rated it it was amazing May 19, Lawrence rated it really liked it Dec 09, Carmel Chapline rated it liked it Sep 04, John rated it it was ok Jul 16, Patrick added it Feb 09, Andy Geise marked it as to-read Dec 28, This new home for recruits initially provided 16 barracks for 3, Sailors. There was also a galley with eight different mess hall wings big enough to accommodate 5, Sailors.

In late , a new demand for trained Navy personnel to man additional ships and overseas billets, called into service by the Vietnam War , surged the onboard recruit population to an excess of 18, Concurrently, expansion plans and projects continued with the laying of a foundation for a new 8,man messing facility adjacent to Bainbridge Court. Additionally, an ambitious program outlaid over five years planned extensive upgrade and construction of new classrooms for 31 apprentice class "A" and advanced schools, administrative facilities, and barracks for NTC.

These upgrades were completed by By the early s, San Diego had become home to more than one-sixth of the Navy's entire fleet. San Diego had more than a dozen major military installations, accounting for nearly 20 percent of the local economy with more than , uniformed personnel and another 30, civilians relying on the military for their livelihood.

The base still houses a "non-ship", the USS Recruit , a landlocked two-thirds model of a warship — a concrete structure built right into the ground. Built in and commissioned as a regular ship at that time, she was used to teach shipboard procedures to recruits. She was decommissioned in but continued to serve as a training facility. In she was reconfigured from a model destroyer escort to a model guided missile frigate. She has been proposed as a maritime museum, but there is currently no definite plan for her future.

At the northern end of the base there is a 9-hole golf course, the Sail Ho Golf Course. It was built in the s as a recreational facility for the base.

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It is now privately operated and open to the public. The end of the Cold War led to military downsizing and the need to close surplus bases. The Navy closed NTC facilities incrementally. As the military functions on the base dwindled, so did the Navy's budget.

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In April, , the Secretary of the Navy changed the status of the Training Station to that of a group command and redesignated it the U. Naval Training Center, San Diego. Under the Center Commander were established three subordinate commands: The years immediately following World War II saw a considerable reduction in population of the Training Center despite a post-war expansion of the Service Schools, and by the end of the population of the Center had dropped to a twenty-year low of 5, men.

Six months later, when the Communists invaded the Republic of Korea, an immediate expansion of all Naval training activities took place and by September of the Center was again operating at nearly full capacity.

During the early months of the Korean conflict it became apparent that the demand for trained personnel in the rapidly growing Pacific Fleet would require further expansion of this training center. On 15 January Camp Elliott was placed in commission as Elliott Annex of the Naval Training Center for the purpose of conducting the primary phases of recruit training. In March, , in line with the planned reduction in size of the Navy, training at Elliott Annex was discontinued and it was placed in an inactive status.

During its two years of operation, over , recruits received training there.

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Late in projects were approved to convert some recruit barracks into classrooms and to extend training facilities by construction of a permanent recruit camp on the undeveloped Training Center land lying to the south and east of the estuary. The six converted barracks went into service as recruit classrooms in April, , and construction work on the new camp was completed in With the completion of this project the Naval Training Center filled out to its present boundaries of acres.

In the furtherance of its mission of supplying trained naval personnel to the fleets and ships of the United States Navy, each of the three subordinate commands of the Naval Training Center has important roles to fill. The Administrative Command has the responsibility of conducting most of the Center's administrative business and furnishing a wide range of services necessary to the daily life of the large community which the Center has become.

The Administrative Command has the responsibility of maintaining the Center's buildings and grounds, and through its facilities all personnel on the Center are house, fed, clothed and paid, and receive their medical and dental car The Administrative Command also provides such other community services as recreational and Navy Exchange facilities; communications, postal and transportation services; and police all fire protection.

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Under the Service School Command are grouped more than twenty Navy Schools in which recruits as well as men from the fleet receive training in the specialized duties of certain ratings. Most of these are Class "A" schools, where non-rated men learn the skills and information necessary to them to perform a specific pet officer rating.

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Among these schools are those which train firecontrol technicians, electricians mates, radiomen, yeomen, commissarymen and stewards. Other schools teach specialized skills such as motion picture operation, teletype maintenance and stenography. The present capacity of the Service Schools is about 5, men.

Here the recruit undergoes his transition from civilian to military life; learns the history, tradition customs and regulations of his chosen service; and receives instruction in naval skills and subjects which will be basic information throughout his period of naval service. Most of the facilities of the Recruit Training Command are centered on Bainbridge Court and occupy the western half of the Training Center.

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Here are concentrated the barracks and headquarters of the recruit brigade, and nearby are located the mess halls, classrooms, athletic fields and recreation buildings used by the recruits. Now in its forty second year of service to the Navy, the Naval Training Center, San Diego, faces with confidence the challenges an unsettled world.

Before NTC expanded to over buildings with nearly 3 million square feet of space occupying almost acres onsite plus training buildings at 32nd Street Naval Station.