US Navy Recruit Training Command - Keel Yearbook (Great Lakes, IL)

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THE INTRODUCTION JUST as the keel is the first part of a ship to be laid, in the same way boot camp or recruit training is the begin- ning of a Blueiacket's naval career. The shipbuilder and the Navy man know that a ship's keel is its principai structuiial membenvits foundatian upon which the entire strength of the vessel is dependent. lt is fitting, then, that this cginpany bgqk its .fcajlegl ffThieM!Qeel -for Qthis book ifelrii iilie ister? Sf irecruit trainingf- which actually ismthe keel of the Blueiacket's life in the Navy. E

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ii . V-Y ,I 1 - X X fx .i in ,A ,f if Y . . . Q5 ww P' ' 1 M1 2 1 ' .1 , .ft I 1 Mai - Xxuax A 5-sv. -w:I:2 :Em at -' W 4-. .. ... . 35.35 k K is ,-:-. : ig? Q i g i :,: E Qian: fs it 3 1 1' tl! I- I ,N ADMIRAL FRANCIS P. OLD, USN Commandant Ninth Naval District L ff' 4 3 asses xxxauah ' .2239 lun . I mr W f,-7 b v . A 'Wa Q mg C . A 07 X J 54 xxk J B CAPTAIN JOHN B. MCLEAN Commander, USNTC. Great Lakes, Illinois