Naval Training Center - Rudder Yearbook (Orlando, FL)

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MESSAGE TO RECRUITS FROM CO RTC YANT Ur DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY gf - I I ,Y Rzcnun' TRAINING COMMAND onumoo. n.omoA 32813-6lOO , 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 characterizes 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 Ushipmate.U I wish each of you fair winds, following seas and Godspeed. C 4 ,M 1 I, 4 I , HA LEY Ca ain, U.S. Nav Commanding Officf

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CAPTAIN JAMES J. HANLEY, USN UNITED STATES NAVY COMMANDING OFFICER RECRUIT TRAINING COMMAND Captain Hanley was commissioned from Officer Candidate School following graduation from Iona College in New Rochelle, New York in 1962. His afloat tours include Commanding Officerof the USS ARTHUR W, RADFORD lDD-9683 and the USS LESTER fDE-1 0223, Chief Staff Officer of Destroyer Squadron Twenty-Six, Weapons Officeron the USS BEALE CDD-471 l, First Lieutenant on the USS RADFORD QDD-446l and Five-Inch Battery Officer on the USS RANDOLPH QCVS-153, He received a Master of Science degree from George Washington University in 1980 and is also a graduate ol the Industrial College of the Armed Forces and the Armed Forces Staff College. Additional tours ashore have included assignments on the staffs of the Chief of Naval Operations, Chief of Naval Personnel and Commander Naval Forces Vietnam. His personal awards include the Meritorious Service Medal and Navy Commendation Medal with Gold Stars in lieu of second awards. Prior to arrival at the Recruit Training Command, Captain Hanley was assigned as the Naval Attache to Belgium. Captain Hanley was born in New York City, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Hanley. He is married to theformer Suzanne P. Esserof Augusta, Maine. They have three children, Brian, age thirteen and John and Courtney, age ten. 6

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THE NAVY 0F YESTERYEAR The second Continental Congress established the Continental Navy on October 13, 1715. 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 frigates 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, George 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.