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

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THE TRAINING CENTER EMBLEM, MAIN GATE UNITED STATES NAVAL TRAINING CENTER BAINBRIDGE, MARYLAND HE Naval Training Center at Bainbridge came into being when the former President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, approved the site and purchase of land and buildings from the Jacob Tome ln- 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 Hlashington and Philadelphia. This activity is under the military command of the Commandant, FIFTH naval District, whose headquarters are in Norfolk, Virginia. President Roosevelt named the Training Center for Commodore VVil1iam Bainbridge, commander of the famous frigate Constitution1' and founder of the first naval training school. The Center was first activated on October I, 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 -Tune 1947 the training activities of the Center decreased due to the eventual reduction in the strength of the Navy. On June 311, 1947, Bainbridge was deactivated as a Training Center. ln the summer of 19511, when the Korean crisis made it necessary, plans were formulated 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. ST. PAUL'S CHAPEL AND CENTER SALUTING BATTERY The Naval Training Center, under the command of the Center Commander, consists of four subordinate activities, each under a Commanding Ofhcer. These ac- tivities are: The U. S. Naval Administrative Command, the Recruit Training Command, the Service School Com- mand, and the U. S. Naval Hospital. The Administra- tive Command serves as the staff of the Center Com- mander in his direction and administration of the other subordinate commands and performs for him all the administrative, operational, and logistic functions not specifically assigned to other commands. These various functions include security, fire protection, supply, dis- bursing, commissary, Navy Exchange, personnel, and religious administration, medical and dental care, main- tenance and repair, transportation, communications and other vital services essential to the efficient and effective operation of a community totaling approximately 35,1100 persons. A component activity of the Administrative Command is the Dental Technicians School, the mission of which is to provide graduated recruits and fleet per- sonnel with the technical knowledge and training re- quired to develop dental technicians for duty with the fleet and shore based forces. The Recruit Training Com- mand, 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, tradi- tions, discipline and esprit de corps, and, by intensive training and schooling, to fit him for naval service. - iviil Y . f T - i . '3

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COMMANDER NELSON C. BLIVEN U. S. NAVY Executive Officer, Recruit Training Command OXINIXNIJIQR NELSON CI. ISLIYEN, ll.S.N., aminiiiul thuicls :is Executive Ollit-at on 1 Mau' l95fl. Piiui' to IiClJOl'llIlg zihogirtl, hc haul 1'cc'mm11is During XYm'lcl XY:u' ll, Clmiiiiiuiiclei' Bliven served ziliozml the scqiplzuu- tciulci l'SS .-XI,BENlfXRL1i, thc LIXEIIISIXJII USS ELORENCIE NlCH'1'lNG,XLE, sioiictl :uul sci-veal tis Ctmiiiiziiuliiig Ollicci' ol' thc as Executive- Ollifci' ul the lI'llIlSlJOI'I USS STORM tlestmy ci- l'SS SXIALLEY. .Xlitci gi-guluzition lioui the XlZlSSllC'llllSCllS Nziuti- utl Scliool with ai 'I'hi1'cl Nlzitds 1,ict-iisc iii .Xa l 19-10, lixiviiig scrvccl two yexuis :ls at czulct on hozml thc sclloolsliip N.XN'I'l'llKliT. xi tlilvc-iiizlstccl SilllllliC1'igQCCl mailing vcsscl, hc' wats tmuiilisximictl T mi :ui Ensign. Xlcirliziiit Klzu-ine lxt-sci-xc. l'prm cc plctioii ul' xi tout' ol. cluty its Clzulct Ollitci' lllSll'llC'lOl' for the l'. S. Xlxiritiiiie Clmiiiiiissioii, hc xoliintecrccl lm' zutivc uzivzil SCITIKC 111 Octohci' ll?-lil. KING, amd pzu'tic'ipzuccl iii the invzisioiis ol' French Xlo1'0c'r'o, Sicily, l.c'ytt', quul Iwo lima. Post wzu' 2lSSlg'IlHlClllS hzivc iiuluclecl duty with thc stall' ol' the Ceiicrzil Line School and the Rc- cruit Tiuiniiig Cmmmizuicl, Newport, R. I., and :is Executive Oflirci' ol' thc clestroyer USS FORREST ROYAL. In hltiiiiigtry I9-16 he ezirnecl his Chief KlatC's Liccnsc zuul iii Scptemhcr llllfi II'2lIlSliCl'l'Cll to the Regulzu' Navy.

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. . W' iiftst-W5 N. 'f f as ' A , . ' ,L, , is-ft'Ii'ijQitZf,hZi'5'3iivf'f5'+V-?Y'F,1'52' X ' ,. HEADQUARTERS, RECRUIT TRAINING COMMAND The facilities of the Recruit Training Connnand con- sist 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, classrooms. bar- racks. 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 re- cruits: one regiment camp contains special facilities for training male recruits attached to the Recruit Prepara- tory Training Unit and for male reserve recruits ordered to active training duty for a period of two weeks, it also contains the only XVAVE Recruit Training School in the Navy. This school, previously located at the U. S. Naval Training Center, Great Lakes. Illinois. was established at Bainbridge in October of l95l. The Service School Command. the third major ac- tivity, provides further training for recruits and lleet personnel in the technical knowledge of ratings required by the operating forces, and prepares them for more ad- vanced education and training in such special field as gunnery. fire control, radio and other technical subjects. A component activity of the Service School Command is the United States Naval Academy Preparatory School which, during the Fall and YVinter months prepares en- listed 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 entrance in the following Fall to the Naval Reserve Ollicers Training Corps Pro- gram at a college or university of their own choice. 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 permanently assigned naval personnel of the Center and their de- pendents. Operating in conjunction with the Hospital is the Hospital Corps School, with about l,200 students. whose function is to provide the technical knowledge and training necessary to develop these young men into Hospital Corpsmen for duty with the fleet and shore based forces.