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Originally posted by PHPaul:
Been a LONG time (2/69) but I'm pretty sure boot was 12 weeks.

Don't remember any SERIOUS fire/damage control training, just some basic familiarization.

I entered Great Lakes Navy boot camp in January 1969. I remember it as 12 weeks also. I was fortunate to be selected for the drum & bugle corp so I skipped a lot of classes. It was an easy path to A School.
Mike

quote:

Originally posted by PHPaul:

Been a LONG time (2/69) but I'm pretty sure boot was 12 weeks.

Don't remember any SERIOUS fire/damage control training, just some basic familiarization.

Nine weeks for me at Bainbridge, starting May 1956, then nine months at guided missile school at Dam Neck (the nine months actually stretched to more than that because I was hospitalized for a while with pneumonia / pleurisy and re-joined a later class).

Fire-fighting was a big deal for us, putting out a large oil fire.