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

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-7..i Recruit Training Commander Presents Recruit Training Commander Presents Athletic Excellence Award Flag Perpetual Athletic Excellence Trophy Officers Center The B rigade

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During the early months of the Korean conflict it became apparent that the demand for trained personnel in the rapidly growing Pacific Fleet would require further expansion of this training center. Accord- ingly steps were taken by the Navy Department to reactivate Camp Elliott, formerly a World War 11 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 'Draining centeri for the purpose of conducting the primary phases of recruit training. In 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 con- struction 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 construction work on the new camp was completed in 1955. In late 1964 a new school to train recruits in the vital function of fire-fxghting was opened at Carroll Canyon, some 15 miles north east of San Diego. With the completion of this project the Naval Training Center filled out to its present boundaries of 535 acres. In late 1965, the demand for trained Navy men to man the addi- tional ships and overseas billets, required to meet the Vietnam crisis, brought the on-board population to a record of over 18,000 recruits, the highest since Korea. At the same time, a military construction program got underway with the foundation of a new 8,000-man mess hall being laid adjacent to Bainbridge Court. In addition, an ambi- tious five-year program was formalized for the construction of modem barracks, TV classrooms and administration facilities. The face lifting of the Recruit Training Command is expected to be completed by the early 197015. In the furtherance of its mission of supplying trained naval personnel to the Heets and ships of the United States Navy, each of the three subordinate commands of the Naval Training Center has important roles to fill. The Administrative Command has the responsibility of conducting most of the Centeris administrative business and furnishing a wide range of services necessary to the daily life of the large community which the Center has become. The Administrative Command has the responsibility of maintaining the Centefs 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 Command 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 iiAii schools, where non-rated men learn the skills and information necessary to them to perform a specific petty ofiicer rating. Among these schools are those which train iire con- trol technicians, electricians mates, radiomen, yeomen, commissary- men and stewards. Other schools teach specialized skills such as motion picture operation, teletype maintenance and stenography. The present capacity of the Service Schools is about 5,000 men. The largest of the three commands at the Training Center is the Recruit Training Command. Here the recruit undergoes his transi- tion from civilian to military life; learns the history, traditions, customs and regulations of his chosen service; and receives instruc- tion in naval skill and subjects which will be basic information throughout his period of naval service. Most of the facilities of the Recruit Training Command are centered on Bainbridge Court and occupy the western half of the Training Center. Here are concentrated the barracks and head- quarters of the recruit brigade, and nearby are located the mess hall, classrooms, athletic fields and recreation buildings used by the recruits. Now in its Fiftieth year of service to the Navy, the Naval Train- ing Center, San Diego, faces with confidence the challenges of an unsettled world. NTC SAN DIEGO

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