Naval Training Center - Rudder Yearbook (Orlando, FL)

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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 indoctrina- tion for officer and 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 lWomenl 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 approximate- ly 9,000 recruits at a time in seven male and two female divisions and one division for housing approximately 900 apprentice trainees. 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 air- conditioned. Command facilities include: A Naval Dental Center Annex and Recruit Clinic of the Naval Dental Center, a training lclassrooml Building equipped with closed-circuit televisions and the most modern training aids, two dining facilities capable of feeding 9,200 people in 90 minutes, an indoor pistol range: olympic size poolffield house lgymnasiuml complex: and the second largest Chapel in the Navy. These facilities are supported by: an In-Processing Facility where new recruits initiate their recruit training, a community center complete with exchange, post office, bank, barber and beauty shop, and portrait studio: and the uss BLUEJACKET, 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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1 April 1982 COMMANDER, NAVAL TRAINING CENTER, ORLANDO REAR ADMIRAL PAULINE M. HARTINGTON, U.S. NAVY Rear Admiral Hartington is a native of Providence, Rhode Island, and a graduate of Classical High School and Rhode Island College of Education, Providence. She was commissioned Ensign, U.S. Naval Reserve on 25 August 1953, completing Women Officer Indoctrination School lClass W- 1 3l, Newport, Rhode Island, in December 1953. She subsequently served in a variety of junior office assignments as Communications Watch Office, Research Assistant, and Infor- mation and Education Officer at Newport, Rhode Island, and Olathe, Kansas. In May 1959, she reported as Aide to the Director, Aviation Plans Division COP-501, serving until May 1963, when she reported to the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, for duty under instruction. After completion of the Personnel Management Curriculum in 1964, Rear Admiral Hartington was assigned as the Navy Member, President's Task Force on the War Against Poverty. This task force was the nucleus for the Office of Economic Opportunity, where she served as Special Assistant to the Director, Urban Centers, Job Corps, until April 1966. Rear Admiral Hartington served subsequent tours at the Bureau of Naval Personnel as Head, Officer Undergraduate EducationfForeign Language Training, and as Head, Disability Retirement Branch. She returned to Newport, Rhode Island, on the staff, Commander, Naval Base, as Plans Officer and Assistant for Women. During this tour, she served additional duty as Area Logistics Officer for the Latin American CNOs Conference hosted by Admiral Zumwalt at the Naval War College in April 1970, and received the Navy Commendation Medal. Upon her detach- ment from the Naval Base Staff, she received the Meritorious Service Medal and reported to the Naval District Washington, as Director, Military Personnel Division. In July 1973, she was selected as the first Navy woman officer to attend the National War College, Fort Leslie J. McNair, Washington, DC. Upon graduation in June 1974, she reported to the Office of the Secretary, Joint Chiefs of Staff, as Chief, Control Division. She was promoted to Captain on 1 September 1974. In May 1975, she became Executive Secretary, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Deputy Secretary on 1 June 19765 and was appointed Secretary, Joint Chiefs of Staff, on 1 September 1976, the first woman to serve in a billet that had been filled previously by a flag or general offi- cer for thirty-four years. She was awarded the Legion of Merit upon her detachment in May 1977. On 22 June 1977, she assumed command of the Navy Manpower and Material Analysis Center, Pacific, San Diego, California, becoming the second woman to command a maior shore installation in the Navy. She relinquished command on 28 June 1979 and was awarded a gold star in lieu of a second Meritorious Service Medal. On 1 August 1979, she became Deputy Director, Total Force Planning Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations lManpower, Personnel and Trainingl QOP-017. She was selected for appointment to Rear Admiral, Unres- tricted Line, in February 1981, becoming the second woman officer so selected. She took command of the Naval Training Center, Orlando, Florida, on 10 September 1981. In addition to the Legion of Merit, two Meritorious Service Medals, and the Navy Commendation Medal, Rear Admiral Hartington wears the National Defense Service Ribbon with Bronze Star. Rear Admiral Hartington is a permanent resident of Chappell Hill, Texas. She is the daughter of Augustine Hartington of Middletown, Rhode Island, and the late Katherine lKosikaskil Hart- ington.