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(Click on portraits to go to military web site!) The beginning...Navy boot camp...Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, IL January 1984...Company 020.
(LEFT) Here is a *very* young 20 year old Company Yeoman (YO-YO) Scott Tacoma reading his mail with the Company Assistant Recruit Chief Petty Officer (A-RPOC) -and soon to be promoted- Louis Church mugging for the camera =:-O
After my hair grew back, I went to Basic Electricity and Electronics (BEEP) School and then Electronics Technician "A" school, both right across the road at Service School Command Great Lakes, then on to Naval Nuclear Power School in Orlando (since closed). After somehow managing to pass the 4 hour final, I went on to Nuclear Power Prototype Training in Idaho Falls, ID (since closed too). I didn't make it through there (a good thing in my opinion)...became a "conventional" ET... SATCOM school in Ft. Gordon, GA in late 1986, and a 3 year assignment at MacDill AFB, Tampa, FL at the Joint Communications Support Element (JCSE). Worked with all 4 branches of the service. Lots of TDYs (especially to Jordan, Egypt, England, Panama and West Germany) but good duty (except for PTs!). Left in May 1990 for NCTS Sicily SATCOM (Sigonella Naval Air Station). Decided to leave the Navy in March of 1993. What? The Air Force uniform? Read on... |
