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Recruits are issued complete uniforms (left). For identification of gear recruits stencil each item with name and serial number (right). Serial numbers did not equal the Social Security Number as used today. Strangely, even after all this time has now passed, I can still sound off my original serial number from memory as assigned back then. - Chainfall |
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Clothing
is checked by tailor for necessary alterations. Seventy-one clothing
and bedding items at $178.00 (back in 1963) are given to recruits.
Future items must be purchased by the individual from his clothing
allowance. |
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Recruits muster in front of R and O. Soon they will hear a welcome aboard lecture on behalf of the C.O., Recruit Training Command, and then will be formed into a company. |
| Processing goes on continuously. Some have had their shots; others are next on the schedule. A newly arrived group removes jumpers and line up. |
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General Classification Test (GCT) battery (commonly referred to as the Basic Battery Tests) is important in determining a recruit's future assignment and training. Test has four parts: general intelligence, mechanical aptitude, clerical aptitude, arithmetic aptitude. Terminology has changed to where GCT refers to the general intelligence score. Doubling that test result roughly equates to one's I.Q. (Intelligence Quotient). Back then, the highest score attainable was 75. - Chainfall |
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Barracks
at Camp Nimitz. Not exactly the Waldorf, but at least a piece of
NTC to call home. Familiarization with ship terminology begins here:
bulkhead for wall; ladder for stairs; deck for floor. Barracks wing
holds a company of some 82 men. Long table is used for letter writing;
buckets are for scrubbing clothes. Upon completion of three weeks
primary training, men move to main side for advanced training. |