Naval Training Center - Rudder Yearbook (Orlando, FL)

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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

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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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THE NAVY OF YESTERYEAR The second Continental Congress established the Continental Navy on October 13, 1775. During the Revolutionary war, the newly-created Navy never had more than 27 ships. The Navy relied on the support of privateers who had been defending the harbors and shores of the colonies since 1661. Successes by the small continental Navy were numerous during the Revolution, yet the Navy was disbanded and the last ship was sold in 1785. In 1794, The U.S. Navy was once again established by Congress to protect U.S. shipping in the Mediterranean against Algerian pirates. Two of the six frigafes constructed, the CONSTITUTION and the CONSTELLATION, are still afloat today. Famous names during the first 100 years of the Navy included: John Paul Jones, Robert Morris, Lafayette, Stephen Decatur, Oliver Hazard Perry, Geor e Bancroft and David S. Farragut. During the first 100 years, naval hospitals were established by Congress, Antarctica was discovered, the Navy suffered its first mutiny, the trans-Atlantic cable was laid, The Confederate Navy surrendered, petroleum oil was tested for use as a fuel source and the USS INTREPID, the first warship to be equipped with torpedoes, was commissioned. F fi Li MMT' lt