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View Poll Results: When and Where Was Your Boot/Basic Training?
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Air Force
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33 |
19.30% |
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Army
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65 |
38.01% |
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Coast Guard
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2 |
1.17% |
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Marine Corps
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20 |
11.70% |
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Navy
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51 |
29.82% |
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Poll Created Aug 30, 2017. Moderator Will Update Manually --- Page 5
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09-30-2008, 11:47 PM
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Location: Sound Beach
2,160 posts, read 6,529,078 times
Reputation: 875
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 1979
I think this is one critical reason why so many people learned to hate the Navy fast. Great Lakes IL was a horrible place. Cold, gray overcast sky, bitter cold. If the boot camp was set in San Diego, they'd probably have much more enthusiastic new recruits. I've never been to Corpus Cristi, or Pensacola, but these might better locales also.
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Yup...went to OCS in Pensacola. I'd take the summer humidity over that wind off Lake Michigan any day! |
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10-02-2008, 12:14 PM
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Location: Where my bills arrive
7,158 posts, read 8,731,423 times
Reputation: 6922
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I went to Navy Boot Camp in Orlando FL, Aug - Oct 78. They use to tell us that off duty police hung out in the orange groves outside the base to catch those trying to escape....
Company 256 and I can still remember sweating off body parts marching on the grinder.
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10-02-2008, 02:23 PM
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Location: Bradenton, Florida
27,236 posts, read 40,212,801 times
Reputation: 10915
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Muhnay
I was thinking there are many of us on here.. maybe some of us did boot camp together. We might be able to reconnect to friends long lost.
I did Boot Camp in April of 1989 at Fort DIX New Jersey. I was in Alpha 2-26.
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Orlando RTC, started Sep 7, 1988. |
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10-06-2008, 03:09 AM
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Location: Lafayette, Louisiana
14,095 posts, read 22,933,804 times
Reputation: 7957
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February 1990 Orlando, Florida followed by Navy Nuclear Machinist Mate A school. Dropped out of Nuclear Power school.
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10-06-2008, 07:57 AM
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6,351 posts, read 18,857,157 times
Reputation: 9894
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 1979
I think this is one critical reason why so many people learned to hate the Navy fast. Great Lakes IL was a horrible place. Cold, gray overcast sky, bitter cold. If the boot camp was set in San Diego, they'd probably have much more enthusiastic new recruits. I've never been to Corpus Cristi, or Pensacola, but these might better locales also.
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The USAF's basic training is in San Antonio, TX. A GREAT place in the Spring, Fall and even most of Winter. But DAMN hot in the Summer. Glad I went thru in January.  |
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10-06-2008, 11:34 AM
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Location: Phoenix, AZ
5,910 posts, read 3,221,480 times
Reputation: 3643
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USAF: Lackland AFB, San Antonio, TX October 1986-Basic Training
Lowry AFB, Denver, CO December 1986 to August 1987-Tech School
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10-07-2008, 01:02 PM
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Location: Puerto Penasco, Mexico
967 posts, read 2,652,585 times
Reputation: 516
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Navy Boot Camp Great Lakes Company 256, 17th Div July 87
OCS (06-96) in P'cola September '95
Retiring November '09
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10-08-2008, 01:42 PM
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882 posts, read 1,294,472 times
Reputation: 1162
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USAF Lackland AFB, TX
August 1995
Mcguire AFB, NJ 605th AGS until August 1999
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10-08-2008, 08:51 PM
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52,426 posts, read 75,215,047 times
Reputation: 11595
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U.S. Army, Fort Jackson, SC summer of 1999
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10-09-2008, 08:31 PM
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44 posts, read 238,448 times
Reputation: 32
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Fort Sill, OK May 2003
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