Naval Training Center - Rudder Yearbook (Orlando, FL)

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BARBARA R. NYCE UNITED STATES NAVY COMMANDING OFFICER TRAINING COMMAND CAPTAIN RECRUIT Captain Barbara R. NYCE was commissioned an Ensign in December 1962 and served her first tour as the Educational Services Officer at the Naval Security Station in Washington, D.C., from March 1963 to July 1964. She reported to the Recruit Training Command in Bainbridge, Maryland, in August 1964 for duty as the Assistant to Military Department Head. She subsequently served as Head of the Military Department, completing her tour in September 1966. Ordered to the staff of the Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe in Naples, Italy, in October 1966, Captain NYCE was assigned first as a Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff and later as Flag Lieutenant to CINCSOUTH. Returning from overseas in November 1968 she spent a year as a student at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. In January 1970 Captain NYCE reported to the staff of Commander, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet where she served for two years in the Resources Management Branch as the Type Commander's Budget Officer. In February 1972 she was assigned to the Bureau of Naval Personnel sewing first as Head of the BUPERS Manual Branch, next as a Branch Head, in the Compensation and Entitlement Policy Division, and finally as Action Officer in the Officer Professional Development Division. From July 1976 to July 1977 Captain NYCE attended the College of Naval Warfare at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, after which she was ordered to the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations in the Systems Analysis Division and assigned to the Resource Analysis Group. Captain NYCE served as Commanding Officer, Naval Technical Training Center, Treasure Island, from June 1978 to September 1980 and as an assistant Division Director and Division Director in the Distribution Department of the Naval Military Personnel Command until October 1982, when she was assigned as the Special Assistant for Women's Policy in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations lManpower, Personnel and Training IOP-01Wl. Captain NYCE assumed command of Recruit Training Command, Orlando, on 8 June 1983. Captain NYCE is a graduate of Towson State College in Maryland where she was awarded a B.S. degree in Education. In 1969 she was awarded a M.S. degree in Business Administration lEconomicsl from the Naval Postgraduate School.

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HISTORY OF NAVAL TRAINING CENTER ORLANDO Commissioned on July 1, 1968, the Naval Training Center, Orlando, Florida, was established to enhance the manpower training capabilities of the United States Navy. Occupying the site of the former Orlando Air Force Base, the training center rapidly became a show place among training commands in the armed forces. The Commander, Naval Training Center, is tasked with providing basic indoctrination for enlisted personnel, and primary, advanced specialized training for officer and enlisted personnel in the Regular Navy and Navy Reserve. Subordinate commands of Naval Training Center are the Naval Administrative Command, Recruit Training Command, Service School Command, Personnel Support Activity and Naval Construction Battalion Unit 419. Twenty-four tenant commands include Naval Nuclear Power School, Naval Hospital, Naval Dental Center, and the Naval Training Equipment Center. Approximately 2,500 Navy men and women and 2,900 civilian employees have permanent duty at the Naval Training Center. NTC's non-permanent personnel include an average on board count of 6,000 men and women recruits and 4,000 other officer and enlisted students. The Recruit Training Command was commissioned on July 1, 1968, and 400 male recruits graduated on December 12, 1968. Women began recruit training in Orlando in 1972 and on April 1, 1974, the Recruit Training Command twomenl and Recruit Training Command were consolidated and the Recruit Training Command, Orlando thus became the only Navy Command where both men and women undergo basic training. The Recruit Training Command has the capability of accommodating approximately 9,000 recruits and 900 apprentice trainees at a time. Located on the Northwest side of the Naval Training Center, the Recruit Training Command is one of the most modern training centers in the world. All buildings are of modern construction and fully airconditioned. Command facilities include: A Naval Dental Center Annex and Recruit Clinic of the Naval Dental Centerg a training lclassrooml building equipped with closed-circuit televisions and the most modern training aidsg two galleys capable of feeding 9,200 people in 90 minutes, an indoor pistol range, olympic size poolffield house lgymnasiumj complex, and the second largest Chapel in the Navy. These facilities are supported by: an ln-Processing Facility where new recruits initiate their recruit trainingg a community center complete with exchange, post office, bank, barber and beauty shop, and portrait studiog and the USS BLUEJACKEE a scale model two-thirds the size of a frigate, outfitted with actual shipboard equipment, including sound-powered phones and a boatswain's chair.

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MESSAGE TO RECRUITS FRCM CO, RTC 3 0? DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY RECRUIT TRAINING COMMAND ' ORLANDO. FLORIDA 32813 Y, To the Graduating Recruits, Congratulations on having completed a most rigorous and demanding period of training. You have been introduced to a new way of life and have risen to the challenges posed during your transition from civilians to Navy men and women. I am confident that as you report to your ships, squadrons and stations around the world you are ready, willing and able to accept the awesome responsibility which character- izes service in today's Navy. You have been taught many things that will be useful to you during your naval service and throughout life. The most important of these is that you can accomplish any task if you have the desire, the determination, and if you expend the effort. This spirit of success and accomplishment is the very heart of what has made our Navy what it is today. It is this spirit that I charge each of you to nurture and protect. It is the essence of pride in service and pride in self, and gives significance to the word nshipmaten. D I wish each of you fair win .following seas and Godspeed. ,f f B. R. CE Capta' , U.S. Navy Commanding Officer