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This was the north grinder. Recruits spent many hours marching here. Early in the morning, Navy songs were played while you marched.
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RTC Orlando
THE HISTORY
The Orlando Naval Training Center (NTC) was commissioned on July 1, 1968. It was established to enhance the manpower training capabilities of the United States Navy. It was the final of three active training facilities for Navy recruits, the others being Great Lakes Naval Training Center and San Diego Naval Training Center.
Orlando NTC was built on land used by the Army Air Corps during World War II as part of the Orlando Army Air Base. This base was decommissioned in 1946 with the military retaining the land with the exception of the airfield being returned to the city of Orlando (today's Orlando Executive Airport).
RTC (Recruit Training Command or boot camp), was charged with "providing basic indoctrination for enlisted Naval personnel.
In 1970, the Recruit Training Command has an average on-board load of about 3600 recruits occupying its five modern barracks, each of which houses 12 recruit companies. These five barracks, plus a 4,600-man mess hall, a classroom building, a recruit chapel, a training ship mock-up, and other facilities comprise the first camp of the Recruit Training Command.
In 1969, construction on the second camp began with targeted completion date in mid-1973. The recruit population will then exceed 8,000. The second recruit camp will be identical to the first with five barracks and additional support buildings for training purposes.
In 1973, Orlando became the sole site of recruit training for enlisted women. Prior to this, women had been trained in Bainbridge, Maryland. The move to Orlando created the first co-located training site for enlisted men and women.
In 1993, many military installations across the country were ordered to close by the 1993 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission. After much discussion and input by the local community, NTC Orlando was chosen to be one of the bases closed. The Recruit Training Command graduated its last company of 459 recruits in the 1321st Pass-In-Review Ceremony Dec. 2, 1994. The command closed officially March 31, 1995.
More than 652,000 recruits graduated from RTC. The Service School Command officially closed in November 1996. The various schools relocated to other bases, primarily Naval Training Center Great Lakes, Illinois. Naval Nuclear Power Training Command, the last major command to remain aboard the training center, graduated its final class in December 1998, thereby completing thirty years of Naval training in Orlando.
With the closing of the Naval Training Center, Orlando and the surrounding area was left with no military bases. The closest being Patrick Air Force Base on the Atlantic Ocean. The property owned by the Department of Defense for the NTC was returned to the City of Orlando and a large-scale redevelopment plan has been developed turning the location into a major sub-unit of Orlando called Baldwin Park. The redevelopment includes hundreds of homes and apartments as well as shopping areas, parks and schools.
From 7/16/1984 ( from my official United States Navy documents: I completed United States Navy basic training Orlando Florida and was transfered to Service School Command US Navy Orlando Florida as US Navy E-3 Seaman Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/2/1994 is 3791 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/20/1976 ( Gerald Ford - Remarks in Asheville, North Carolina ) is 3791 days
From 1/19/1993 ( in Asheville North Carolina as United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess I was seriously wounded by gunfire when I returned fatal gunfire to a fugitive from United States federal justice who was another criminal sent by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal in another attempt to kill me the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/2/1994 is 682 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/15/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Amok Time" ) is 682 days
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1994-12-02/news/9412010966_1_naval-training-center-orlando-naval-orlando-community
Orlando Sentinel
Kudos To The Ntc Graduates
December 2, 1994
Today marks the beginning of the end for the Orlando Naval Training Center. This morning, 459 recruits will be the last graduates of the Recruit Training Command on the base.
A victim of military downsizing, the Naval Training Center will be gone by 1998. Memories of the base - and those who have passed through it - will live on, though.
Since the Orlando boot camp opened 26 years ago, more than 652,000 recruits have begun their military careers here. Most of them were in Orlando only long enough to go through basic training.
Still, their fresh, young faces and crisp uniforms became fixtures in the Orlando community, at the nearby malls and shopping centers, movie theaters and other Orlando haunts.
Ever since the first class graduated in December 1968, the training center has been churning out recruits schooled in everything from firefighting to health and hygiene.
In 1972, women arrived at the Naval Training Center. The base became the basic military training site for all women entering the Navy.
As today's graduates leave, the eventual dismantling of the Naval Training Center will begin - the hospital, the commissary, the training schools. High-profile tenants such as the U.S. Customs Service and the Department of Veterans Affairs will move onto the property.
Today, though, belongs to the current occupants of the Naval Training Center. So long, graduates, and thanks for being a vibrant part of the Orlando community.
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1994-12-04/news/9412050232_1_schilke-naval-training-center-orlando-naval
Orlando Sentinel
FINAL SALUTE
652,000 Recruits, Just 1 Boot Camp
December 4, 1994 By Jeff Kunerth of The Sentinel Staff
Donald Schilke was new to the Navy when the Navy was new to Orlando. He came to Orlando in 1968, a 22-year-old college graduate from New Jersey with a degree in music, to become one of the first recruits to graduate from the Orlando Naval Training Center.
The first graduating class comprised five companies and 394 men. There were 86 men in Company 001, at least one from each of the 50 states, many of them college graduates, all but a couple of them white. They spent 10 weeks being trained at a Navy base still under construction.
''We didn't have anything in raw training except classrooms,'' said Schilke, 48, a member of Company 001. ''We didn't have a firing range. We just went out and did some firing at some made-up targets.''
Florida Technological University (now the University of Central Florida) had opened with 1,500 students three months earlier. The 5-year-old Kennedy Space Center was preparing to send Apollo 8 to the moon.
Students were rioting at San Francisco State College. Half a world away, 192 American soldiers were killed that first week in December in South Vietnam, a slight drop from the previous week, bringing the nation's casualty count to 30,057.
''I knew I'd be going to Vietnam, but I felt it was my part to join up and do whatever I could do,'' said Schilke, who would spend a year in Vietnam as a naval diesel mechanic.
That was 26 years, 1,321 graduating classes and 652,000 recruits ago.
On graduation day, Schilke was director of the Navy base's 35-man choir. Friends and relatives stood on the sidelines while recruits marched across the parade grounds before bleachers set up for dignitaries.
''We were all excited. We wanted to look good,'' said Schilke, co-owner of his family's New Jersey construction company. ''It was something we had never been through. It was a special graduation.''
Subsequent classes would graduate on Fridays, but that first group graduated on Thursday, Dec. 12, because the reviewing officer, Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, didn't want to fly on Friday the 13th.
Although the skies were clear and the temperature was in the mid-60s, two men fainted. Future classes would be taught how to bend their legs at the knees and loosen their grip on their rifles to prevent passing out in front of their parents in the grandstand.
The first class was all male. Following classes would remain that way until 1973 when women recruits began training at the Orlando base.
The final class will again be all male; the last class of women recruits graduated from the Naval Training Center on Oct. 14.
The last graduating class of the Orlando Naval Training Center will include about 400 men in five companies. Basic training has shrunk from 10 weeks in 1968 to 8 1/2 weeks in 1994.
The last company of the last class, Training Group C059, will consist of 77 men from 24 states. The majority - 40 - are from the South. Only four are from Florida including Fredrico Rodriquez, a recruit originally from the Dominican Republic who now lists his hometown as Altamonte Springs. Texas has the largest representation at 16, while only two recruits are from the Northeast - one from New York and one from New Jersey.
Forty-four men in the training group are white; 18 are black; 10 are Hispanic, four Asian and one is an American Indian.
They belong to different times, Company 001 and Training Group C059. But they are joined by traditions of basic training that have remained essentially unchanged over the years.
In 1968, when young men wore shoulder-length hair and big bushy afros, military haircuts were 1/32-inch on the sides and a half-inch on top. In 1994, a year when young men shave their heads, military haircuts are still 1/32-inch on the sides and a half-inch on top.
They emerge from those haircuts changed in appearance; they emerge from basic training changed forever. Navy bases may disappear, but something of the Navy remains inside a person forever.
''The sad part is none of us have kept in touch,'' Schilke said, ''but you never have friends you would die for like you do in the service.''
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1994-12-04/news/9412020960_1_training-wide-world-recruits
Orlando Sentinel
FINAL SALUTE
The Last Voyagers
December 4, 1994
Officially, they are designated Training Group C059. They call themselves, more appropriately, the Last Voyagers.
The last company of the last class. The last to pass lock step in review during a graduation ceremony at the Orlando Naval Training Center.
Their precise columns were really the conclusion of a line of 652,000 recruits who have trained at the base in the past 26 years.
Two months ago, the line was crooked as the men of C059 waited at the Recruit Training Command barger shop for their first military haircut. They entered as individuals. They emerged looking oddly the same.
For eight weeks, they exercised at 4 a.m., sweated nervously through inspections, learned grueling discipline from two company commanders.
In the end, they not only looked the same, but acted that way - no longer 77 men, but a single company.
On Friday, Dec. 2, they marched behind their company flag for the last time, then split up and shipped out to live the destiny that flag foretold: On one side, Neptune, god of the sea, embracing the wide world. On the other side, an old pocket watch with a date painted on its face - 1968-1994.
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Amok Time [ Star Trek: The Original Series ]
Stardate: 3372.7
Original Airdate: Sep 15, 1967
[Spock's quarters]
(Spock is staring at the picture of a young girl on his monitor, but switches it off when the doorbell buzzes.)
SPOCK: Come.
KIRK: Stay. McCoy has given me his medical evaluation of your condition. He says you're going to die unless something is done. What? Is it something only your planet can do for you? Spock! You've been called the best first officer in the fleet. That's an enormous asset to me. If I have to lose that first officer, I want to know why.
SPOCK: It is a thing no out-worlder may know except those very few who have been involved. A Vulcan understands, but even we do not speak of it among ourselves. It is a deeply personal thing. Can you see that, Captain, and understand?
KIRK: No, I do not understand. Explain. Consider that an order.
SPOCK: Captain, there are some things which transcend even the discipline of the service.
KIRK: Would it help if I told you that I'll treat this as totally confidential?
SPOCK: It has to do with biology.
KIRK: What?
SPOCK: Biology.
KIRK: What kind of biology?
SPOCK: Vulcan biology.
KIRK: You mean the biology of Vulcans? Biology as in reproduction? Well, there's no need to be embarrassed about it, Mister Spock. It happens to the birds and the bees.
SPOCK: The birds and the bees are not Vulcans, Captain. If they were, if any creature as proudly logical as us were to have their logic ripped from them as this time does to us. How do Vulcans choose their mates? Haven't you wondered?
KIRK: I guess the rest of us assume that it's done quite logically.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 6:00 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Sunday 12 June 2016
