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

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I Y , 2 xpansion of P49 the pop- twenty-ytaf an the Com- L, an iIIlITlC' ptivities took Center WHS 11 conllid it trained Per' Fleet would :ling CCl'1lCf- Depart- avy World rly 21 whifih is lo' earrll' Mai' 5 ptacedlw ,al Trainlllg rimary the P, ,C 953, H' It 5 the NaVYf d and if 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 in to service as recruit classrooms in April, 1953, and construction work on the new carnp should reach completion in l954g With the completion of this project the Naval Train- ing Center will have filled out to its present boun- daries of 435 acres. In the furtherance of its mission of supplying trained naval personnel to the fleets and ships of the United States Navy, each of the three subordinate commands of the Naval Training Center have im- portant roles to fill. The Administrative Command has the responsi- bility of conducting most of the Center's adminis- trative business and furnishing a wide range of Luce Audit services necessary to the daily life of the large com- munity which the Center has become. The Admin- istrativc Command has the responsibility of main- taining 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, com- munications, postal and transportation services, and police and fire protection. Under the Service School Command are grouped more than twenty Navy Schools in which recruits as well as men from the fleet receive training in the specialized duties of certain ratings. Most of these are Class AH schools, where non-rated men learn the skills and information necessary to them to perform a specific petty ofhcer rating. Among these schools are those which train fire control tech- nicians, electricians mates, radiomen, yeomen, com- missarymen and stewards. Other schools teach spe- cialized skills such as motion picture operation, tele-

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