I was listening to music on XM Radio channel 6, which has music fom the 60's, nad they said something about this week in 1967 and I suddenly realized that it was 40 years ago this past week, 11/6 to be exact, that I shipped off from home to Navy boot camp at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center north of Chicago. I was only 18 and had never been away from home and my parents for more than a week (Summer Camp one year when I was about 13) except when I went off to my Grandparents' cottage in Manistee, MI with them when I was probably about 6.
I went downtown to the recruiting station and they put us on a bus to Detroit. There we were put on an airplane for the flight to Chicago and then another bus ride to Glakes NTC. I guess it was pretty easy to make the transition from home life to Navy life; all I had to do was just what I was told. They took all of our civilian clothes and shipped them back home. They gave us all the clothes we would need for the two months we would be training. After that, they would pay us a regular allowance to keep up our clothing.
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