US Naval Training Center - Compass Yearbook (Bainbridge, MD)

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Kliilll? SPHD HMI! . ...E ' it Main Gufe THE Naval Training Center at Bainbridge came into being when the former President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, approved the site and pur- chase of land and buildings from the Jacob Tome In- stitute in early 1942. This property, including build- ings of the Tome School for boys, was enlarged by the purchase of adjacent land which brought the total area of Bainbridge to 1,132 acres. Bainbridge is located on the northeast bank of the Susquehanna River, 35 miles northeast of Baltimore and approximately 75 miles from Washington and Philadelphia. This activity is under the military command of the Commandant, FIFTH Naval District, whose headquarters are in Nor- folk, Virginia. R 1 I Drill Hall mmm. We , , . W, 7 ., mnmt1gg BAINBRIDGE President Roosevelt named the Training Center for Commodore William Bainbridge, commander of the famous frigate '4Constitution and founder of the first naval training school- The Center was first activated on October 1, 1942, and ten days later was in operation training recruits. At the conclusion of hostilities on V-J Day, August 14, 1945, the Recruit Training Command had trained a total of 244,277 recruits. From August 1945 to June 1947 the training activities of the Center decreased due to the eventual reduction in the strength of the Navy. On June 30, 1947, Bainbridge was deactivated as a Training Center. In the summer of 1950, when the Korean crisis made it necessary, plans were form- ulated to reactivate the Center to provide men for the rapidly expanding fleet and shore bases. On February 1, 1951, Captain Robert Hall Smith, U.S.N., assumed command of the Center. The Naval Training Center, under the command of the Center Commander, consists of four subordinate activities, each under a Commanding Oflicer. These ac- tivities are: The U. S. Naval Administrative Command, the Recruit Training Command, the Service School Command, and the U. S. NavaliHospital. The Admin- istrative Command serves as the staff of the Center Commander in his direction and administration of the other subordinate commands and performs for him all the administrative, operational, and logistic func- tions not specifically assigned to other commands. These various functions 'includee.security, fire protec- tion, supply, disbursing, commissary, Navy Exchange., personnel, and religious administration, medical and dental care, maintenance and repair, transportation, communications and other vital services essential to the eilicient and eHective operation of a community Center Headquarters as ,ykfWw5,,M,,,,'W--,W..5.'.,,r...,,..,..,,,,,,,W,., , .,,,.. . M ,R Q 'Z 1 fx sgofrfe'-sae Mi 5 , Z1-ima, ' Y gd .,,,,,. , Y A Q 'ki P a - -F5 We airmail BMW ef-1-wwila 9 r Q63

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f 1 I 1 J s e mber U. S. our of ne re- 4acola, e USS o Pen- rn both rd the aiding rom a ack by nroute fal Op- i Navi- ,ties in Train- 3 IIISII- of the I Arctic leneral I of S03 rved H5 T rans- 0 Bain' he ning Of :I for 8 gllllsled ars. He bsertfer 1 Peufl' Asiatic' an Area rv Med' Korean 1s Sefv' COMMANDER NELSON C. BLIVEN, U.S.N., as- sumed the duties of Executive Officer, Recruit Training Command on 4 May 1953. Previous to reporting he had reactivated, recommissioned and served as Commanding Officer of the USS SMAL- LEY CDD565j, a FLETCHER Class destroyer. After graduation from the Massachusetts Nau- tical School, Boston, Massachusetts, in April 1940 with a Third Mate's License, having served two years as a cadet on board the schoolship NAN- TUCKET, a three-masted squarerigged sailing vessel, Commander Bliven was commissioned an Ensign, Merchant Marine Reserve. Upon comple- tion of a tour of duty as Cadet Ofiicer Instructor for the U. S. Maritime Commission at .Admiral Billard Academy, New London, Connecticut, he volunteered for Active Naval Service in October 1940. During World War II he served in various ca- pacities afloat in the seaplane tender USS ALBE- MARLE, the transport USS FLORENCE NIGHT- INGALE and as Executive Officer of the transport USS STORM KING. While serving with the Am- phibious Forces, Atlantic and Pacific Fleets, he participated in the invasions of French Morroco, Sicily, Saipan, Palau, Leyte, Luzon and Iwo Jima. Post war assignments have included duties with the staffs of the General Line School and the Re- cruit Training Command at Newport. R. I.. and as Executive Officer of the destroyer USS FORREST ROYAL. In January 1946 he earned his Chief Mate's License, and in September 1946 transferred to the Regular Navy.

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r ff? e st a 2, ff 49 a used A fhefT? ted. . . hen ii 'rm-y ,A J K . l . llle . Q . the iary :med .tial i0 Illllllly E. ' X MARYLAND totaling approximately 35,000 persons. A component activity of the Administrative Command is the Dental Technicians School the mission of which is to provide graduated recruits and fleet personnel with the tech- nical knowledge and training required to develop den- tal technicians for duty with the fleet and shore based forces. The Recruit Training Command, the largest of the four subordinate commands, is responsible for the administration of the Recruit Basic Training Program the principles of which are to guide the recruit in the transition from civilian to military life, to introduce him to Navy life, naval customs, traditions, discipline and esprit de corps, and, by intensive training and schooling, to fit him for naval service. A The facilities of the Recruit Training Command consist of four large regiments, each named after naval heroes-Rodgers, Perry, James and Barney. Each camp is an entity in itself,--with its own drill hall, swimming pool, rifle range, mess hall, drill field, class- rooms, barracks, and recreational facilities-and has the capacity to berth, mess and train a regiment of 5,000 population. All of the regiments are used to train regular male recruits, one regiment camp con- tains special facilities for training male recruits at- tached to the Recruit Preparatory Training Unit and for male reserve recruits ordered to active training duty for a period of two weeks, it also contains the only WAVE Recruit Training School in the Navy. This school, previously located at the U. S. Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Illinois, was established at Bain- bridge in October of 1951. V The Service School Command, the third major ac- tivity, provides further training for recruits and fleet personnel in the technical knowledge of ratings re- quired by the operating forces, and prepares them for . MQNBW, ...g..,W,. , ,, t. .... a..,4 J...if......-..,,s,.-.1-.....M-..,..,,,.., . bs. yuan: , f 1:s5axs,..i-,.,. .... X ' Recruit Barracks . more advanced education and training in such special field as gunnery, fire control, radio and other techni- cal subjects. A component activity of the Service School Command is the United ,States Naval Academy Preparatory School which, during the Fall and Winter month-s prepares enlisted men from all branches of the Armed Forces for the entrance examination to the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. During the Summer months this School also trains and selects enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps for en- trance in the following Fall to the Naval Reserve Oili- cers Training-Corps Program at a college or university of their own choice. a The fourth major subordinate activity is the U. S. Naval Hospital, a separate and detached command. The Hospital provides medical and surgical facilities for the proper care of all recruits, students, and per- manently assigned naval personnel of the Center and their dependents. Operating in conjunction with the Hospital is the Hospital Corps School, with about 1,200 students, whose function is to provide the tech- nical knowledge and training necessary to develop these young men into Hospital Corpsmen for duty with the fleet and shore based forces. Headquarters Recruit Training Command f- , 23 f 5 X- f, li Iwi' ' 95 1 Ls. 2