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BOOT CAMP

, The Navy formerly operated Recruit Training Centers in San Diego, California; Orlando, Florida; Meridian, Mississippi; and Port Deposit (Bainbridge), Maryland.  From 1942 to 1946 the Navy had two additional training sites. Naval Training Station (USNTS Sampson)  near Seneca Lake, NY trained over 400,000 recruits. as well as Farragut Naval Training Station in Bayview, Idaho.

In order to show our ship mates and our families what Boot Camp was like,  I have loaded mine from San Diego; I was there in October to December 1957.    Jerry Manriquez, FTA3 Fox Div, 1958-1960
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HISTORY OF SAN DIEGO BOOT CAMP

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA

 This Book is for Company 387 which went through Boot Camp from October to December 1957.  
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The Anchor - Part I
The Anchor - Part II
The Anchor - Company 387 - Part III
The Anchor - Company 387 - Part IV
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​SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA

 This Book is for Company 295 which went through Boot Camp from October 1953 to January 1954.  Thanks to Richard Werline, M Div, 1954-1957

The Anchor - Part I
The Anchor - Part II
The Anchor - Company 295
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BAINBRIDGE,
MARYLAND

This book is for Company 184 which went through Boot Camp in 1956.  Thanks to Roy Lammey for sharing this with us.

The Compass - Part I
The Compass - Part II
The Compass - Part III
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GREAT LAKES, ILLINOIS

This book is for Company 246 which went through Book Camp in 1948.  Thanks to Sheliah Shepard the daughter of shipmate John Pilon who shared his book with us.  John served aboard the Des Moines from 1949 to 1951.

Part I 
Part II
Part III

Other Company at Great Lakes in 1948
Companies 230-239
Companies 240-249
Companies 250-259
Companies 260-269
Companies 270-279
Companies 280-283
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Sampson - United States Naval Training Center

​The facility was established initially by the United States Navy as a Naval Training Station (USNTS Sampson) in 1942. The station was named after Rear Admiral William T. Sampson. The Navy obtained 2,600 acres of former farmland and also vineyards for the facility on the east side of Lake Seneca, New York. Construction of the facility took 270 days to complete. Along with the training station, a 1500-bed hospital was constructed. The mission of USNTS Sampson was Naval basic training for large numbers of new recruits. During the war, over 411,000 recruits were trained at the station.     With the end of the war, USNTS Sampson was closed, and turned over to the War Assets Administration in 1946
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