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Navy Boot Camp 1917
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Posted: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - 08:00 PM UTC
Some pretty neat clips here of 1917 recruit training-Great Lakes.
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Posted: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - 09:26 PM UTC
Except for the hammocks these pics look pretty much the same as when I went to Navy boot camp in San Diego in high school NJROTC in the 70s.

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Posted: Thursday, May 17, 2007 - 03:58 AM UTC
I went to Great Lakes in the late 60's, and we gave up dragging around field pieces by hand.
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Posted: Thursday, May 17, 2007 - 04:00 AM UTC
Check out the new-improved boot camp Roger:
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