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  • Proud to have gone through the gates of NTC San Diego.

    July 9, 1991. Co. 209

    Ships sponsor: USS Horne

  • Pave paradise and put up a parking lot..Company 253. 1991.

  • Thanks for posting this, man....

    Co. 086 1972, March to May

  • I never did get that square needle in the left nut,I hated to be a road guard marching back to the barracks.great memories!!! Aug-Oct 1974 company 244.

  • I did boot from Oct.-Dec 1971 COM.347 with CC B/M 1st class Seneiff. from the 1st day of R&O of getting yelled at by a disinated RCPO only to be replaced the next min.by a brown shoe. he made the 1st one do 50 pushups for the yelling.

    we learned what is ment by "NUTS TO BUTTS" on the 1st day in line for chow.

    especialy when waiting outside at parade rest & hope you don't get splatted by the sea gulls.

    lots of greats memorys from the 1st day to the end

    thanks for bringing them back again.

  • I graduated 15 NOV 85 w/Company 194, Div. 6. C.C. was SH1 Abordo, short filipino who pulls me out of ranks grabs my hanky and barks "What the puck ees dis? (oh snap I left it in the pocket and it turned light blue in the laundry) "Dis a UA gear son and you goin' to marchin' party because I'm a goud coom pa nee coomander and you mudda puckas better leeson to me" They MASHED me HARD after taps! After graduation was "Liberty Call". He smiles at me & says "Go get some poosey now you made it" LOLOL

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  • i went through here in sept of 87 such a shame i was one the last companies through there was a beutifull place loved it

  • CO. 022 Div IV graduated in 83' with Company Commander AO1 Stemler and Asst. CO RM2 Ambach. Color Company. Later joined the fleet onboard USS Kitty Hawk CV-63 after completing FN Apprentice Trng. Got out as a Hull Technician 3rd Class Petty Officer. Used the kicker GI Bill to attend college and is now a succesful businessman. Thanks Navy!

  • Yes I was there in Nov.1980 Co.283 under Chief Lovett, would never have thought I'd miss it so much. Did active duty at NAS Lemoore VFA-125 F/A 18 Airdale. CV-64 as well. I heard about the controversy about the Base design and just found out about it no longer being the Recruit Training Center. Hope to see some fellow shipmates that severed with me as well. Bless all who Started a New Life there as I.

  • What better place than Sandiego for bootcamp. Right near the Ocean and 32nd St naval station and North islan NAS across the bay. I was in Co 200 Sept 1985 Company comander was Willy Sweatt BT1. It was so sad going back to San diego in 2009 and seeing the old barracks trashed. E01 SW Garelli...

  • Such a shame they closed the base...was one of the nicest any where. Was in co 278 1971...

  • CO. 237 here. July 17, 1989 to Sept 23, 1989 CC,s Chief petty officer Rhail. And Petty officer 1st Class Peterson. Good Old NTC San Diego. Now my son serves USCG!!

  • Co 016 January - March 1970. Lots of memories here. What beautiful buildings. Can I have a couple of these acres??

    - CT-3 S.D. Regan

    - Dr,.Stephen D. Regan, retired Dean

  • July 89' boot camp to Sept 89. Then started Radioman A school beginning of Oct of 89 to 90. Soon as I was available to take the promotion, I got shafted. Pres. Bush had started to do cut back in Military. no promotion for almost 2 years in RM rate. stayed RMSN for the whole 4 yerars.

    RMSN Malone

  • I went to boot camp there in Jan. '67 then on to two tours in Nam as a Corpsman. It was an expierience, my tour in Nam was something I am still trying to forget to this Day. Co. 016

  • I joined the Navy at Oakland California and was sent San Deigo Boot Camp on February 1, 1966. I belong to Company 079, and our DI was BTC Morris. Its too bad closing the training facility. This video bring many memory of our life.

  • Very nice video. It looks like a very beautiful place they have built there. Now I guess I can only see my old barracks in my feeble brain. I took my boot camp there in January 1976 with Company 017 Company Commander AO Burr. He broke his ankle tripping up a curb one day. How many of the old buildings did they keep. My barracks was 96 south lower, right across the street from the galley. One of the proudest days of my life was to "Pass In Review" on graduation day. AHHH---to be that young again.

  • I went there in November 1988 and graduated in early 89. Its amazing how we bury these memories in a vault and just by watching this video its ALL coming back to me now! What a great and innocent time of my life that was. To see what has happened to it kinda got my heart a lil broken.

  • Thank you for that, I went through Camp Nimitz in 77, at age 17. During hell week 7th week, we were mustered on the grinder and told if you change your a school to BT, or MS, it was a $1400 bonus, BTS are allways dirty so I took the ms. after Graduation no a school walked over the bridge got a plane ticket and flew to the PI boarded the Shitty Kitty CV- 63 pride of the 7th went to sea with war vetrans and heros came back to Diego a proud sailor, and will go to my grave a proud sailor. 

  • 1983 for boot camp drill company. Then on to Radioman "A" school followed by Morse Code school and then back later for Teletype Repair School. It was a fine base. Fond memories of the "Burger and Brew", and the Enlisted Club and the PO Club.

    Nice to see the architecture survived the makeover.

  • Navy Boot Camp in San Diego was great, it broke my heart to see them tear it down.

  • I went through boot camp in Great Lakes in the fall of 1987 right after high school, then to Radioman A School here, great memories for my first time from po dunk Michigan.......

  • sdcheapshot, Great video. Went to Boot in 1963, Company 364 --then on to Radioman Class A school in SDiego --then on to Comservpac/Cincpacflt in Pearl. Nice to see all the memories.

    RM3 Tony D'ALonzo

  • I graduated on the "grinder"! that's now a nice pasture.

  • I went to MCRD San Diego, right next door, for boot camp. I havent been to San Diego for at least 5 years. Has the NTC already been transformed into a shopping center? I never new that it closed.

  • Sept-Nov 1972 company 369. Then Radioman "A" School there. It's a shame what has happened to the old base. I wonder what ever became of the old "Zodiac" Massage parlor that used to be just outside the recruit liberty gate. I knew many recruits that spent some money in that place! Lol

  • 1974 company 244, went to many marching parties! had to stay a extra 2 weeks for fleet training after boot,then went to sea duty on the U.S.S. San Bernadino,2 west pacs. best time of my life!

  • 1966 Company 740. I am so thankful that I wasn't a part of 739 which had some trouble. My company commander, a chief, authorized practicing part of the Queen Ann manual of arms. I did so while on laundry watch when 739 came back from something "mandatory". Their company comander didn't like what I was doing so my springfield flew against a wall. After I reported what happened he was replaced and everything was flying out of their 2nd floor windows. A troubleshooter & I think SP had arrived.

  • I was in boot camp at NTC in November 1968..........Iam totaly amazed at the transromation.......some of the old is still there along with the new.......I would have never beleived that this would take place.....wonderfull

  • This is a sad story. It seems ever place I served is gone. The Dixon is gone. The Proteus is gone. The NTC San Diego is gone. I wonder if Polaris Point Guam is gone. Yeah, a real American era has ended. The new era is wierd subverted and just plane odd, Not what I served to protect. We dont even have a ture America politician that will fight for the citizens. The average blue collar citizen has no chance if he/she grows old in a country where no one cares. America is a selfish nation now.

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  • 1970 Company 010. CC was MMC Cox. Returned to NTC for BE&E school before heading to Fleet ASW school for training on the MK111 Fire Control System. Many fond memories of my time at RTC and NTC. The destroyers I served on have been scrapped and now the bases I was trained at are going also. Fleet ASW school at Key West is also gone.

  • 1969 Company 191. CC was T.L. Nazworth, BTC -- we were his first bootcamp company. Then to Hospital Corps training in San Diego, as guaranteed at time of enlistment due to loss of Corpsman in Vietnam.

  • I was there in 1982. Company 091 Division 4. !8 June 1982 to 20 August 1982. CC's were EM1 Fontillas and MS! Ruffin. Thank you sdcheapshot for posting this. Peace, Paul "HerkyHawk1985"

  • alot of the original buildings still remain onsite and are utilized in all of the new buildings on liberty station

  • Co. 056 March 87 excellent video. I have added to my favorites and greatly appreciate you posting this and giving me a tour of the old RTC/NTC. I left in there and headed back east to join the fleet. I always smile when I think of those days, and I have to wonder what life might have been like if I had stayed on the west coast. Either way thank you for the memories.

  • I was in Company 79 1966 our DI was Chief Moorfield.

  • Graduated RTC with Company 143 in Sept. 1988 at the tender age of 17! CC's were OSC (SW) Calma and QM1 (SW) Simmons. Attended Basic Electricity Electronics school at the NTC after that. I remember the good old F.R.E.D. computer based learning which we said it stood for Fu%king-Re-medials-Every-Day :-) So many good and terrifying memories of that place. Kuddos to sdcheapshot for posting this!

    ET1(SW/AW) Troy Yarborough

    USN Retired

  • Company 156, July - September 1993. Chief Kruz and PO1 Teh .. Our company commanders turned us into hardass sailors and men during them months!

  • I entered NTC San Diego boot camp as a 20 year old kid in 1969 (Co 741). After boot camp there was IC “A” school, two months aboard the USS Nashville, Sub School, and the remainder of my four years aboard the USS Seadragon. I recently visited San Diego and the site of the old NTC. The visit brought back many warm memories. It also felt like I the death of an old friend. Looking back over my past 61 years, I have to say that the Navy was one most valued experences.Thanks so much for this video!

  • OMG! What an awesome video! Sdcheapshot, thank you for the video and the memories. I went to boot here in 1990 (company 058-the "G" force), attended Radioman A school, and afterwards went to the fleet and served aboard the USS John Young DD-973 and later FACSFAC NAS North Island. Those were the days! I truly miss every single one of my boot camp, school, and fleet shipmates!!

    RMSN Carl W. Francis

  • Feb 1970,CC Duboise. co. 131. Then radio A school. The typewriter repairmen 2nd class Dave Clark. I worked with him for 6 months waiting on orders.Got staff duty comphibron 7 assigned The Okinawa. The ships crew hated us.we had our own compartment. and our own duty roster. we had a turncoat radio senior chief. Kissed ass on ships com officer.He was transferred right after I got out. I had two weeks short and ship went on a westpac. I declined the offer to go. I knew the chief was mad cause.

  • I was in boot camp there in August 1982. Company 156. Company commander BTCS Oakman. I went to A school at NAS Memphis, TN. After that, in 1983, I went to NAS Norfolk,VA. Helicopter squadron HM-16. Was on USS Inchon LPH-12 and USS Okinawa LPH-3. 1986 reenlistment. Stayed in NAS Norfolk, VA worked at AIMD Jet Shop. Got out in 1989.

  • I was in Boot Camp also here in 1969......Company 248 and also went on to Radioman A school and then to the USS Navasota where I did two West Pac tours and then came back to North Island for my last few months..................my strongest memory is the first morning......our CC came in about 3:30 and threw a metal trashcan down the middle of the barracks (in Camp Nimitz) and it went from there.....................

  • Great video! What a change.

  • I am in the Navy stationed here in San Diego. I currently live in military housing located in Point Loma on the site that was once San Diego boot camp. It is very nice here and I am glad that they have incorporated some of the history of the old boot camp into the area here.

  • RTC Company 035 - 1979

    Bravo Zulu on the video.

  • So sad to see it gone. Roy Benson Co 938, 1980 Company commander SWC Pete Garza

  • Recruited in the winter of 1968 from the draft the Army that almost got me; thank God!

     It is a shame that it had to end up like ships in moth balls or even the torch of the scrap heap in which two of the ships ended up, USS Fox DLG-33 (scrapped)and the USS Kitty Hawk CVA-63(moth balled). That is the way life truly is, a time to tear down and a time to build up. But what is held in my memories is the best time in my life and the pride that I saw in my Dad's face upon graduation day.

  • Amazing views, I went thru there in 1963, Company 098. A lot of wonderful memories. The Co Commander was MR1 Smally, great guy.

  • First, Kudos to the man who published this video ! Excellent work !

    I graduated NTC back in the summer of 1971, Company 224.. Our Company Commander was EM1 Bondi. Never will forget NTC, "Worm Island" and those Hell Raisin US Marines next door.

  • I went to Boot Camp there in 1969. I was in Company 215..our Company Commander was BT! Harris...many great memories..I miss it.....I also attended Radioman A School there...I later went to the fleet aboard the USS Constellation CVA-64....i sure miss all of my Boot Camp and Fleet shipmates.

    RM3 Chuck Urso

  • Thank you for your comments. I always enjoy hearing from new (and old) shipmates. I pass through the site weekly, it is always a memorable experience. sdcheapshot

  • @sdcheapshot

    Thanks sdcheapshot for the memorys.

  • I went to my favorites list to view the old video and was surprised to see it had been removed. What a relief to see this new improved version. Now please dont scare me like that again.

  • VERY WELL done, Chuck!!!!!!!!!!!! Amazing, and true--WHAT memories. Sad to see the old place done that way. Rob.

  • Superb! Brings back a lot of memories.

  • This video brings back alot of memories for me. I arrived there sacred to death in the wee hours in the month of Jan1985. I was in company 013 and attended Radionman A school. Thanks for posting a wonderful video

  • This is terrific. Wonderful history and all the way up to the combined new uses of this historic place.

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