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

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cians, ,dental technicians, boilermen and hospitalmen, to name a few of the specialties. The Dental Technician School is one of the few Armed Forces schools offering instruction to Army and Air Force personnel as well as Navy. The Hospital Corps School, which can accommodate 1600 students, is a part of the U. S. Naval Hospital at Great Lakes. The Naval Hospital is one of the Navy's major hospitals for treat- ment and care of ill and injured personnel. At the height of the Korean fighting, more than 700 battle casualties were under treatment here. The establishment of two large Naval supply activities here in re- cent yeatshas increased Great Lakes' importance as a Naval supply center. Numerous Naval activities throughout the Midwest, as well as ships of the fleet, obtain equipment through the enlarged Naval Supply Depot. In addition, a large Electronic Supply Office at Great Lakes controls the procurement and distribution of repair parts required for the maintenance of electronic equipment at shore stations and in Navy ships. Great Lakes also is the headquarters of the Ninth Naval District- the largest Naval district in the nation, encompassing 15 midwestern states. The Commandant of the Ninth Naval District directs the hun- dreds of Naval activities in this land-locked area. Included among these activities is administration of the large Naval Reserve program in the Midwest, where civilians who are Naval Reservists receive practical instruction in weekly drills at 72 training centers. They also participate in annual cruises aboard ships of the Great Lakes training squadron. Other activities at Great Lakes have all-Navy functions. These in- clude: lj the Naval Examining Center, which prepares and processes rating examinations for the entire Navy, 25 Fleet Home Town News Center, which receives news stories and photographs of Naval personnel from all parts of the world and distributes -them to home- town newspapers, and 35 Navy Medical Research Unit No. 4, which conducts research into the cause, cure, and control of respiratory diseases. Waves have been stationed at Great Lakes since the Navy volunteer women's organization was established in 1942. A Wave recruit train- ing school was located here from 1948 to 1951. In addition to filling essential jobs at Great Lakes, Waves also attended some of the specialty schools here. Great Lakes' history dates back to 1904, when a board appointed by the President selected the site of the Naval Training Center from among 57 locations on the Great Lakes. The Merchants' Club of Chi- cago raised the funds to purchase the property, and the land was presented to the Government as a gift from the people of Chicago. On 1 july 1911-six years to the day after construction began- Great Lakes was commissioned. It consisted of 59 buildings, with a capacity of 1,500 men. During World War I, the training center was expanded to 775 buildings with a capacity of almost 50,0001 trainees. More than 125,000 men received their first Navy training here during World War I. Great Lakes' population dropped sharply during the years between wars, but population and construction began a rapid increase after President Roosevelt proclaimed a national emergency on 9 Septem- ber 1959. Pearl Harbor threw the expansion program into high gear, with 13,000 civilians working in shifts, seven days a week, to build additional barracks, mess halls, and training facilities. A total of 675 buildings had been erected by the end of 1942 and in 1944 the population reached a peak of more than 100,000. At the end of World War II, Great Lakes consisted of approxi- mately 1,000 buildings. Since then much new construction has been accomplished in a continuing modernization program. New bar- racks, a new mess hall and other modern buildings are replacing the World War II wooden construction. In keeping geared to modern methods, the Recruit Training Com- mand has installed a closed circuit television channel in the classrooms of its up-to-date classroom building. With sets in each room 2400 men can be taught at once using only one cameraman and one in- structor-and it has been found that this method of instruction is far more efficient than the older methods. From its earliest beginnings the base on the shore of Lake Michigan -the Great Lakes Naval Training Center-has been a major bastion in the Navy's ever-continuing progress forward in training. Today, as in the past, it maintains its position as both the largest center for the training of recruits and as a major center of advanced technical training. 'i5 Z ' W. ':'f'-T-ll-'ff f1 f F-r,?'i'1 ,. ,. e - 1 P -1N 2 ' 'az-c' -2- ' fa'-Qu: -9- +'- ' f - riiaaaaiaaataamamtawaaaastrtwiiaftffiiaftaxis?-raw-,EsJaA.swJtsifra'ff1ia'a5 f-an t . li w ll ., .., W , ii. , . 'zzit -- t -- M is ...iii , , ., 'IXIZ f g,r1,U - '- TfT f-- --- -...N -W, ,,.,, 1 . -X, i. .':.'arn. ,. ---5 ' .-.-.--- , - .,. w-fs -- . c.. .Y xx ' m. T me--I--2, -im 'f T l V .ha A H, . 4.5

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COMMANDER W. W. WATKINS Executive Officer mig ,, mv-1 gf-if CAPTAIN V. SOBALLE Commanding Officer, Recruit Training Commdnd if H N 5 FS