US Naval Training Center - Anchor Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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5 ua i li li A continued 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 housed, fed, clothed and paid, and receive their medical and dental care. The Administrative Com- mand also provides such other community services as recreational and Navy Exchange facilities, communicaa tions, postal and transportation services: and police and fire protection. Under the Service School Command are grouped more than twenty Navy Schools in which recruits 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 infor- mation necessary to them to perform a specific petty officer rating. Among these schools are those which train electricians mates, radiomen. Other schools teach specialized skills such as teletype maintenance and stenography. The present capacity of the Service Schools is about 5,000 men. Now in its Fifty Third year of service to the Navy, the Naval Training Center, San Diego, faces with confidence the challenges of an unsettled world.

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continued the rapidly growing Pacific Fleet would require further expansion of this training center. Accordingly steps were taken by the Navy Department to reactivate Camp Elliott, formerly a World War ll Marine Corps training camp which is located ten miles north of San Diego on Kearny Mesa. On 15 January 1951 Camp Elliott was placed in commission as Elliott Annex of the Naval Training Center for the purpose of conducting the pri- mary phases of recruit training. ln March, 1953, 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 150,000 recruits received training there. Late in 1952 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, 1953, and con- struction work on the new camp was completed in 1955. RK In late 1965, the demand for trained Navy men to mar the additional ships and overseas billets, required to mee the Vietnam crisis, brought the on-board population to z record of over 18,000 recruits, the highest since Korea At the same time, a military construction program go underway with the foundation of a new 8,00-man mes hall being laid adjacent to Bainbridge Court. In addi tion, an ambitious five-year program was formalized fo the construction of modern barracks, TV classroom and administration facilities. The face lifting of the Re cruit Training Command was completed by the earlj 1970's. In the furtherance of its mission of supplying trainer naval personnel to the fleets and ships of the Unite' States Navy, each of the three subordinate command of the Naval Training Center has important roles to fill. The Administrative Command has the responsibilit of conducting most of the Center's administrative busi ness and furnishing a wide range of services necessary t the daily life of the large community which the Center

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CAPTAIN H.R. BIVIN, U.S,N. Commander US. Naval Trainizlg Center San Diego, California