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

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,......-i..7.--,- ,rl OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY WASHINGTON 25 D C f-jflbrx DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY gp -5:51 ' QF: XE Q ? ' ' T T0 THE PARENTS OF THE GRADUATES OF RECRUIT TRAINING Successful completion of recruit training is the first major accomplishment in every Navy man's career. His ability to adapt himself the Navy's high standards of not only to himself but also others in his home community become a fine young American Our Navy cannot achieve of the nation's defense team to Navy life and to meet performance is a credit to his family and those who have helped him to its mission as a member without the services of many thousands of young Americans who are willing to work hard and long to ensure that this country will be able to defend her precious freedom if the test 0011185 Q Whether your son decides to make the Navy his career, or prefers to return to civilian life upon completion of his present enlistment, he will need the encouragement and understanding of you at home in order to do his Navy job successfully. For our part, those of us in positions of leader- ship in the Navy pledge our constant loyalty to him and concern for his best interests. Working together, we can keep our Navy the world's best and a great protector of freedom throughout the world. CHARLES S. THOMAS Secretary of the Navy

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OMPASS is an instrument which in- dicates geographical directions by means of a compass card. A compass rose, furthermore, is a diagram of a com- pass card reproduced on a chart to assist the navigator in laying out true courses and directions. For centuries men who have sailed their ships to the far corners of the earth have depended upon tl1e compass to guide them safely to their ultimate des- tination. Recruit training may be compared to a compass in that it, too, is an instrument of direction but in the field of indoc- trination. The compass rose of intensive training in the basic fundamentals of the naval service is so designed as to assist the recruit, during his transition from civilian to naval life, in laying out true courses of endeavor and directions of effort. Upon the completion of his basic training the new bluejacket possesses a compass card of invaluable knowledge which will guide him, throughout his naval career, along a predetermined course and in the direction of his ulti- mate goal-that of being of real service to his Navy and his Nation, and a credit to himself.

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Launching the USS Nautllus ISSN 5711 the Navy s first atomic powered ship. Cgrgqirg returning to the USS Boxer lCV'2ll after a combat mission over North Korea. The Navy and Sea Power ARLY in the seventeenth century Sir Walter Raleigh observed that Who- soever commands the sea, commands the trade, whosoever commands the trade of the world, commands the riches of the world and, consequently, the world itself. That principle is as true today as it was centuries ago. Nothing of major import has occurred, not even the advent of the mod- ern aircraft, to lessen the importance of sea power and sea trade to our national defense and prosperity. The day hasnot been reached, nor ever will be reached, when control of the seas of the world can be exercised solely by shore-based aviation, guided missiles, and the atom bomb. Control of the sea can be exercised effectively only by forces which travel the sea and can remain at sea for long periods of time. Sea forces and sea-based air forces-in other words, sea power-furnishes the only effective control of the sea. Sea power has a mobility which land power can never have. Whatever the weapons used, aircraft carriers fhighly mobile air fieldsl can be moved at high speed to the most favorable Helicopter landing on the USS Box A corner' USS Anfiewm icv'36l 'md de5 '0Ye 1 U55 Sllelion er qffer q rescue m,,s,on KDD 7901 being refueled by USS Tolovana QAO-641. points for attack on enemy targets. What- ever the weapons used, large ground forces can be transported rapidly by naval means to selected coastal points and landed against opposition. The mere threat of such attacks at unpredictable points would im- mobilize large enemy forces held in reserve to meet them, thus forcing the enemy to effect a wide dispersion. Dominant sea power, therefore, in the hands of the United States and its Allies, would deny to an enemy the ability to attack us from the sea while conferring on us the ability to launch a seaborne attack at any selected point or time. The continued vital importance of sea power is clearly evident. Vlfhen the oceans of the world are no longer required for the transport of men and goods, then and only then can the United States afford to dis- pense with a Navy. The Navy's Offensive Power Fulfilling an historic role fthe United States Navy today, as in the past, maintains a vigilant guard over the fre om of the seas. Naval power, as exhibite throughout the struggles of World War Il and as used The destroyer USS Robt. H. McCord.