Dad enlisted in 1946. Retired in 1971 as a Master Chief. He got spoiled early as his first ship was the USS Missouri. From there they sent him to Great Lakes to radio school. And then kept him there for three long years as an instructor. Left there as an E-6 though. Made E-7 in 1956. I miss my dad also.
San Diego was the home port for my destroyer when I went on board in 1954. USS Hopewell DD-681 Fletcher class from WW-2 shipyards. Battle stars from WW-2, Korea and Vietnam. Now a fish hotel off Orange County CA. Miss those days so much.
My 97-year old father in law was on the Hopewell during WW II. His daughters don’t think he wants to talk about the war but when the two of us are alone that’s all he talks about. Some pretty gruesome stuff occurred when he was in it.
The publisher mentions two familiar faces, George Reeves and Robert Armstrong. I noticed a third worth mentioning, Herbert Anderson who played the father on Denise the Menace tv series beginning in the late fifties. I've been through basic training twice, once as an enlisted man and again as an officer candidate. I didn't have this much fun.
Was there in 1965 , company 653 , then to San Francisco for DC school, one year in Da Nang shore duty Vietnam , USS Arlington agmr2 Damage Control 3ed class for 15 months. From Japan to Sydney and everywhere in between lots of good times .
I consider it an honor to have served in the US Navy. I might not have liked all aspects of it at the time, but looking back, I wouldn't have changed a thing. _salute_ CVN-65, VF-114, 1984-1994.
Went to boot camp here 45 years after this was filmed. The grinder and barracks are still identifiable after all those years. Not so today, they are condos.
I was there too in 1975, l went to be in the 30 year retirement ceremony of an old shipmate 6 years ago and saw what happened to RTC San Diego, 'bout broke my heart, what's not already gone was being torn down.
I was there in 77' place sucks now! Great Mistakes is the worst place in the US for boot! The Navy paid me 2 million dollars to remodel the NTC galley and less than a year later it was demoed!
I still remember those concrete clothes wash tables. Still there in the summer of 1974. Never saw the mast style drying lines though. Those seem to have been in the older Mission style barracks.
@ 1:13 I remember having to sound "Retreat" (for the Colors) several times a week at that very flagpole during bootcamp. I was lucky enough to have been a member of the RTC Drum and Bugle Corp during the summer of 1974. Spent the next 20 years in the Submarine Service.
The bugle call is incorrect for this scene!! I can't believe they played *To the colors while raising the flag!! Reveille is for raising the flag not *Retreat* and *To the colors*!. Whoever was in charge of the bugle call when that shot was made needs to be fired, 🤣🇺🇲 Oh and thank you Mr. Andis, for your service and sacrifice to this great country of ours.
@@RandomGuy17768 Reveille was held around 6am for wake-up and "To the Colors" was held at 8am to mark the start of the workday. "To the Colors" bugle call is used anytime there's not a band around to play the National Anthem.
@@1SemperDad Well Sir, I don't know how the Navy does things, but I do know how the Army does. Retreat was played first followed by To the colors. This was always done at the end of the work day to lower the colors. Ive never in all my years in the Army heard "To the colors" used in any other ways, although there are numerous bugle calls throughout the work day, such as chow or formation and of course taps. I found this ua-cam.com/video/7KdctpcPv1g/v-deo.html
North Island Naval Air Station. One of the wonderful, old duty stations in San Diego, CA., but I wish it still looked like it does here. And that goes for San Diego as well.
Pier Echo, at Terminal Island. That was where the U.S.S. Rochester heavy Cruiser, and the USS Chicago were both berthed. My Dad was a Warrant Officer on board in O.E. Div. I was a SM-3 in operation "Market Time", this was after my Dad reired, and during the VietNam War.
My uncle, a boatswain with some extra special skills acquired during the wars) knew his way around a lot of the bases and repair facilities (bars and cat houses in a number of foreign and domestic ports). Some like San Diego, like the back of his hand. He served from 1941 to 1973 ? I think. Floated on everything from Captain's gigs to PT's to tugs, PA's to Destroyers and Cruisers and then some. I served at VC-3, a C-130A air launch and ground launch target drone squadron at the NAS just after he retired.
Biggest mistake made by the Pentagon and DoD was the whole "Base Realignment" fiasco in the 1990s. Yes.... let's close the Naval Training Center San Diego... which is right across from North Island,....down the road from the Submarine Base......a few miles from the SEAL Base Coronado.....a short drive to the 32nd Street Naval Station....a shorter drive to Fleet Operations Center.....perfect weather.....on the Bay....next to the Pacific...... near the USMC's training center.....down the road from Camp Pendleton....a short drive to the then-Top Gun NAS Miramar....been there since WWI....... shown in several movies about the Navy......in a relatively safe town............. and move it all to THE GREAT LAKES!!!!!!! Gee.... who wants to train in Chicago in 11 months it sucks!!!
Those boys had no idea what was staring them down at the end of 1941. They couldn't have even imagined. All the golly gee stuff was going to be replaced by some very harsh realities.
Its the absolut opposite of this terrable German Nazi Propaganda... (I'm German) Amerika had one thing on the war that Germany and Japan never had and its for me the main reason why America ist still the strongest country on earth. Respect for Individuals and nothing is so strong than free people fighting for the same Things.
As a retired Master Chief, this film is great! Ok, so the acting is corny, but if you take it's messages...wow. First, the camraderie of the Navy...three completely different guys come together and learn together in boot camp...teamwork....second, the color blindness....still the same, although you wouldn't get kicked out (unless you came in fradulently like he did!), and third, the Chief going to bat for him at the end because it's the right thing to do....what a great find on UA-cam, thanks for posting! And of course, the Pennsylvania BB-38 at the end....I am a plankowner of USS Pennsylvania SSBN-735 :-)
I sure don’t remember boot camp and company commanders being so nice and friendly! I’m color blind and couldn’t go to A school for any of the ratings I wanted. Ended up going to Engineman A school. Worked out okay. Decent rating.
I was set to join the Royal Navy in the seaman branch when I was 15 but my colour perception is 3 on a scale 1 to 10. 1 being perfect and 10 monochrome, like a black and white TV. I was heartbroken. I can distinguish colours fine but some shades of blue I see as green and vice versa. However, a year later they changed the minimum standard to 3 and so I joined at 16 during 1972. I thoroughly recommend anyone before leaving school to have a colour test to avoid disappointment when going for a job where colour vision is important. Good film, differences to USN and Royal Navy is we called boot camp 'basic training' and our classes were smaller.
I went to bootcamp there in 1978 company 152.. then on to Great Lakes for OSA school, then on the U.S.S. Wabash AOR-5. Wish I could turn back time and do it all again.
Except for the cartridge belts, we did those same exercises on the grinder in 1963, carrying the Springfield . Washed our uniforms on those concrete tables too
fun fact about the 3 destroyers in the vid. all 3 made it to January 1st 1945. Sadly, DD-208 was sunk by a kamikaze, but DD-206 picked up survivors. Both DD-206 and DD-207 survived the war.
In the early 1970s I flew several missions with VP-94 out of NAS Key West when the squadron deployed there for a couple of weeks. Flew as port observer/ordinanceman on ASW flights, as I wanted the experience and was a bit short on flight time. I normally flew as a spook on VQ-2 EC-121Ms from VQ-2 (Rota, Spain). The SP-2H Neptunes were pretty neat aircraft!
@@williamc.1198 That was one of the places dad was offered but took Bremerhaven, Germany instead. Some of dad's friends died on an EC-121 that was shot down. Dad's burial plaque from the Navy only list Vietnam ( served from 1946 to 1971 ) but as far as we ever knew, he was never there. Only way that would have happened was if he had also caught a flight out of Atsugi on one of the EC-121s stationed there. And yes, he was a spook. A CTMCM.
wow. I'm ex-navy, my son is navy, and I can't wait for him to come home on leave and get drunk and watch this together. And we're from kansas. what a hoot! and I'm colorblind too. Kept me from Annapolis but not from enlisting.
King Kong's captor, Dennis the Menace's Dad, and Superman all in the same film. Grandpa was a sailor in WWI, serving on a minesweeper. He looked a lot like Herbert Anderson. My wife's uncle served as a gunner's mate on PT boats in the South Pacific from 43-44. He said he only drilled with a rifle in basic training and never actually fired a weapon until he was assigned to his PT, then he had to teach himself how every gun worked, from various small arms to the 40mm Bofors.
Was stationed on USS Semmes DDG 18 at Charleston Naval Base SC, USS Cape Cod AD 43 and USS Kinkaid DD 965 at 32nd St Naval Base San Diego, USS Whidbey Island LSD 41 Little Creek Amphibious Base and USS Wasp LHD 1 at Naval Station Norfolk VA. Stationed at ASU Bahrain with COMUSNAVCENT, Fleet Information Warfare Center Little Creek Amphibious Base and Fleet Combat Training Center Atlantic Operations Specialist A School Instructor twice.
Pretty neat short film. I spent 27 years in the Navy, served aboard submarines, destroyers, cruisers and aircraft carriers.Had good times and some not so good times; but the good far out-weighed the bad! By the way, destroyers were the best!
I knew an Army MG who would disagree on the Destroyer bit. He also served on a Battleship and went over to a Destroyer for a meal at their invitation. Turned a " beautiful shade of Army Green " was how it was describe to him.
I was in basic training at the RTC in San Diego back in 1985 ….. boy the Navy sure had changed drastically from 1940 a lot of the stuff they do in this film is no longer in effect by the time I enlisted
Interesting to see them drilling on the grinder in their "Whites" which is something we never did in 1970. We pretty much lived in our seafarers in basic with a change from dixie cups to ball caps after service week. I'm trying to remember if I ever wore my Whites at all during my enlistment.
Dad spent a bit of time in whites. But in Dress Whites as a Chief. Only picture we have seen of him on Cyprus in uniform was in dress whites. Otherwise he spent most of his time out of uniform. Travel to and from base to/from home was always done in civilian clothes. He was buried in his dress blues. Overseas travel orders always were for in civilian clothes too. Even on military aircraft.
The first color episode of 'The Beverly Hillbillies" (9/15/1965) [Admiral Clampett] was probably the funniest one; Mr. Drysdale has invited the Clampetts down to the yacht club to encourage them to purchase a big yacht. Not knowing what the proper attire is at a yacht club, Mr. Clampett sends Jethro out to buy some "proper attire" and he comes back from a Hollywood costumer with naval officer uniforms. Then they get lost driving and end up at the Naval Base. Hilarity ensues!!!
That was how dad got out of Great Lakes after 3 years there as an instructor. BUPERS told him the only way out was to join the Naval Security Group or he would be stuck there even longer. Next day after signing on the dotted line, he had orders to Hawaii to school and then to Guam. In 1956 he was forced to sign another form changing his rating from an ET to a CT or he would be removed from the NSG.
This is totally tacky, but still fun to watch. And being color blind will not keep you out, but it does restrict what ratings you can go for quite a bit.
I never told them I have double vision and I spent 22 years in the navy . When I first went in I had over 20/20 vision and wore glasses when I took my eye test they asked why I wore glasses told them I did not know : )
@@Darrellbalfour Dad went in in 1946 but wasn't color blind. Back then they had a lot of people that they were cashiering out and were a bit more picky about those coming in. Dad was one of the last ones to graduate in 1946 at Bainbridge and had to stay an extra day for a parade as it was the 5th anniversary of Pearl Harbor.
Those concrete washing tables and wooden brushes still looked same in 1963. Got home from boot camp the day before John F Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 @ 11:32AM PST.
I found a frozen cat while on fire watch once while there. Plopped that cat on the watch desk and got that nights fire watch patrol suspended that night. Fire Control Technician School.
MMMM no I was born and grew up in Chicago and lived One block from the lake It was not a good type of frozen You could see water flowing under it and it went up and down as you walked on it .
Robert Armstrong was a native of Michigan, born in 1890. Regional accents such as his were very pronounced in America until well after WWII. Also the acting style of pre-WWII films was different. Armstrong was noted for his clipped, rapid-fire delivery, similar to James Cagney and Pat O'Brien.
Now they knew how to wear there white hats : ) I hate the way they wheat them now days ,Had wings on mine and on the back of the head with a big blond wave of hair ,Just not when the shore patrol was a round ha ha ( was 1960 to I ret )
I wouldn't say heavily. The Pennsylvania only took one bomb hit and less then 40 casualties. She was also repaired fairly quickly. Her sister the Arizona was the most heavily damaged Battleship and had the most casualties.
bustermk2 honestly the navy wouldn't be a good choice lol. Sometimes the whole ship would go down and sometimes only a few hundred out of thousands will live
I wish my dad was still around. He enlisted in the Navy about this time; it would have been great to get to reminisce about his experience.
Y que se siente haber luchado para un país más racista y discriminador que los nazis?..."" 😷🇺🇸
Dad enlisted in 1946. Retired in 1971 as a Master Chief. He got spoiled early as his first ship was the USS Missouri. From there they sent him to Great Lakes to radio school. And then kept him there for three long years as an instructor. Left there as an E-6 though. Made E-7 in 1956. I miss my dad also.
San Diego was the home port for my destroyer when I went on board in 1954. USS Hopewell DD-681 Fletcher class from WW-2 shipyards. Battle stars from WW-2, Korea and Vietnam. Now a fish hotel off Orange County CA. Miss those days so much.
My 97-year old father in law was on the Hopewell during WW II. His daughters don’t think he wants to talk about the war but when the two of us are alone that’s all he talks about. Some pretty gruesome stuff occurred when he was in it.
Just speechless. Wow. There is a massive difference between boot camps. My Dad was a Navy man, I’ve always been proud of him. I miss him.
The publisher mentions two familiar faces, George Reeves and Robert Armstrong. I noticed a third worth mentioning, Herbert Anderson who played the father on Denise the Menace tv series beginning in the late fifties. I've been through basic training twice, once as an enlisted man and again as an officer candidate. I didn't have this much fun.
Was there in 1965 , company 653 , then to San Francisco for DC school, one year in Da Nang shore duty Vietnam , USS Arlington agmr2 Damage Control 3ed class for 15 months. From Japan to Sydney and everywhere in between lots of good times .
I consider it an honor to have served in the US Navy. I might not have liked all aspects of it at the time, but looking back, I wouldn't have changed a thing. _salute_ CVN-65, VF-114, 1984-1994.
Went to boot camp here 45 years after this was filmed. The grinder and barracks are still identifiable after all those years. Not so today, they are condos.
I was there too in 1975, l went to be in the 30 year retirement ceremony of an old shipmate 6 years ago and saw what happened to RTC San Diego, 'bout broke my heart, what's not already gone was being torn down.
I was there in 77' place sucks now! Great Mistakes is the worst place in the US for boot! The Navy paid me 2 million dollars to remodel the NTC galley and less than a year later it was demoed!
I was there in April of 1985 Company 081
I still remember those concrete clothes wash tables. Still there in the summer of 1974. Never saw the mast style drying lines though. Those seem to have been in the older Mission style barracks.
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This is what should have been played.
@ 1:13 I remember having to sound "Retreat" (for the Colors) several times a week at that very flagpole during bootcamp. I was lucky enough to have been a member of the RTC Drum and Bugle Corp during the summer of 1974. Spent the next 20 years in the Submarine Service.
The bugle call is incorrect for this scene!! I can't believe they played *To the colors while raising the flag!! Reveille is for raising the flag not *Retreat* and *To the colors*!. Whoever was in charge of the bugle call when that shot was made needs to be fired, 🤣🇺🇲 Oh and thank you Mr. Andis, for your service and sacrifice to this great country of ours.
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Reveille
@@RandomGuy17768 Reveille was held around 6am for wake-up and "To the Colors" was held at 8am to mark the start of the workday. "To the Colors" bugle call is used anytime there's not a band around to play the National Anthem.
@@1SemperDad
Well Sir, I don't know how the Navy does things, but I do know how the Army does. Retreat was played first followed by To the colors. This was always done at the end of the work day to lower the colors. Ive never in all my years in the Army heard "To the colors" used in any other ways, although there are numerous bugle calls throughout the work day, such as chow or formation and of course taps. I found this ua-cam.com/video/7KdctpcPv1g/v-deo.html
North Island Naval Air Station. One of the wonderful, old duty stations in San Diego, CA., but I wish it still looked like it does here. And that goes for San Diego as well.
Pier Seven ....
Pier Echo, at Terminal Island. That was where the U.S.S. Rochester heavy Cruiser, and the USS Chicago were both berthed. My Dad was a Warrant Officer on board in O.E. Div. I was a SM-3 in operation "Market Time", this was after my Dad reired, and during the VietNam War.
My uncle, a boatswain with some extra special skills acquired during the wars) knew his way around a lot of the bases and repair facilities (bars and cat houses in a number of foreign and domestic ports). Some like San Diego, like the back of his hand. He served from 1941 to 1973 ? I think. Floated on everything from Captain's gigs to PT's to tugs, PA's to Destroyers and Cruisers and then some.
I served at VC-3, a C-130A air launch and ground launch target drone squadron at the NAS just after he retired.
Biggest mistake made by the Pentagon and DoD was the whole "Base Realignment" fiasco in the 1990s. Yes.... let's close the Naval Training Center San Diego... which is right across from North Island,....down the road from the Submarine Base......a few miles from the SEAL Base Coronado.....a short drive to the 32nd Street Naval Station....a shorter drive to Fleet Operations Center.....perfect weather.....on the Bay....next to the Pacific...... near the USMC's training center.....down the road from Camp Pendleton....a short drive to the then-Top Gun NAS Miramar....been there since WWI....... shown in several movies about the Navy......in a relatively safe town............. and move it all to THE GREAT LAKES!!!!!!! Gee.... who wants to train in Chicago in 11 months it sucks!!!
Yes, so sad to see the remnants of NTC San Diego today.
Those boys had no idea what was staring them down at the end of 1941. They couldn't have even imagined. All the golly gee stuff was going to be replaced by some very harsh realities.
Its the absolut opposite of this terrable German Nazi Propaganda... (I'm German) Amerika had one thing on the war that Germany and Japan never had and its for me the main reason why America ist still the strongest country on earth. Respect for Individuals and nothing is so strong than free people fighting for the same Things.
As a retired Master Chief, this film is great! Ok, so the acting is corny, but if you take it's messages...wow. First, the camraderie of the Navy...three completely different guys come together and learn together in boot camp...teamwork....second, the color blindness....still the same, although you wouldn't get kicked out (unless you came in fradulently like he did!), and third, the Chief going to bat for him at the end because it's the right thing to do....what a great find on UA-cam, thanks for posting! And of course, the Pennsylvania BB-38 at the end....I am a plankowner of USS Pennsylvania SSBN-735 :-)
Frank, what you say is true.
That could go for any service Frank McGee. No political correctness then! We need to get back to that!
Hey Frank, Thank You for Your Service
I sure don’t remember boot camp and company commanders being so nice and friendly! I’m color blind and couldn’t go to A school for any of the ratings I wanted. Ended up going to Engineman A school. Worked out okay. Decent rating.
The film was stupid, sir!
09:58 In the Army they would yell at you and tell you to "range walk". It means to walk fast, not run.
I was set to join the Royal Navy in the seaman branch when I was 15 but my colour perception is 3 on a scale 1 to 10. 1 being perfect and 10 monochrome, like a black and white TV. I was heartbroken. I can distinguish colours fine but some shades of blue I see as green and vice versa. However, a year later they changed the minimum standard to 3 and so I joined at 16 during 1972. I thoroughly recommend anyone before leaving school to have a colour test to avoid disappointment when going for a job where colour vision is important. Good film, differences to USN and Royal Navy is we called boot camp 'basic training' and our classes were smaller.
8:08, "Where's your hat?"
In the Navy it's not a hat, it's called a cover.
lol.. i was just going to make the same comment.. but ya beat me to it.. good catch
I thought the Very same thing. It was called a cover back then just as is in our time... I’m guessing.
Same in all branches I believe. I know in the Army it was a cover for sure.
Hermosa marina racista..."" 🇺🇸👍
George Reeve also had a role in the all time classic, Gone with the Wind.
I went to bootcamp there in 1978 company 152.. then on to Great Lakes for OSA school, then on the U.S.S. Wabash AOR-5. Wish I could turn back time and do it all again.
I was ten companies behind you. CO 78-162.
Except for the cartridge belts, we did those same exercises on the grinder in 1963, carrying the Springfield . Washed our uniforms on those concrete tables too
fun fact about the 3 destroyers in the vid. all 3 made it to January 1st 1945. Sadly, DD-208 was sunk by a kamikaze, but DD-206 picked up survivors. Both DD-206 and DD-207 survived the war.
Went to boot camp in 1967, served till 1973. Assigned to VP-94, NAS New Orleans, ADR-3 mechanic on P2V Neptunes.
In the early 1970s I flew several missions with VP-94 out of NAS Key West when the squadron deployed there for a couple of weeks. Flew as port observer/ordinanceman on ASW flights, as I wanted the experience and was a bit short on flight time. I normally flew as a spook on VQ-2 EC-121Ms from VQ-2 (Rota, Spain). The SP-2H Neptunes were pretty neat aircraft!
@@williamc.1198 That was one of the places dad was offered but took Bremerhaven, Germany instead. Some of dad's friends died on an EC-121 that was shot down. Dad's burial plaque from the Navy only list Vietnam ( served from 1946 to 1971 ) but as far as we ever knew, he was never there. Only way that would have happened was if he had also caught a flight out of Atsugi on one of the EC-121s stationed there. And yes, he was a spook. A CTMCM.
This Is Called the Hollywood Navy I Enlisted In 1963 To 1988 Never Seen Boot Camp Like This Before Great Footage Of San Diego Of Pre War America
wow. I'm ex-navy, my son is navy, and I can't wait for him to come home on leave and get drunk and watch this together. And we're from kansas. what a hoot! and I'm colorblind too. Kept me from Annapolis but not from enlisting.
Sure hope you two had a chance to tigh a good one on
@@stevewixom9311 Yeah. But then he threw up and his mom was pissed! :D
@@frederickburke9944 well ya can't win them all..lol
King Kong's captor, Dennis the Menace's Dad, and Superman all in the same film. Grandpa was a sailor in WWI, serving on a minesweeper. He looked a lot like Herbert Anderson. My wife's uncle served as a gunner's mate on PT boats in the South Pacific from 43-44. He said he only drilled with a rifle in basic training and never actually fired a weapon until he was assigned to his PT, then he had to teach himself how every gun worked, from various small arms to the 40mm Bofors.
They had boxing instruction?!? I want this Navy back.
I loved those dark blue uniforms! ❤
Was stationed on USS Semmes DDG 18 at Charleston Naval Base SC, USS Cape Cod AD 43 and USS Kinkaid DD 965 at 32nd St Naval Base San Diego, USS Whidbey Island LSD 41 Little Creek Amphibious Base and USS Wasp LHD 1 at Naval Station Norfolk VA. Stationed at ASU Bahrain with COMUSNAVCENT, Fleet Information Warfare Center Little Creek Amphibious Base and Fleet Combat Training Center Atlantic Operations Specialist A School Instructor twice.
Went through boot camp training at NTC San Diego in July of 1952.
My dad served here in August 1988. Hooyah Navy!
August 1940, little did these men know in a year and a few months would change the world and there lives forever.
That's a young Superman and Dennis the menace dad!
i also believe that herbert anderson played the father on dennis the menace.
Served 4 years !!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸 Navy-Orlando San Diego then Alaska and Then back to San Diego a Ship 🚢 Then The Army National Guard !!
George Reeves and Robert Armstrong in Technicolor. Very cool!
Little did any of these guys know within in a year they would be in WW2...
"well it's not the Atlantic" George Reeves - actor Superman.
Pretty neat short film. I spent 27 years in the Navy, served aboard submarines, destroyers, cruisers and aircraft carriers.Had good times and some not so good times; but the good far out-weighed the bad! By the way, destroyers were the best!
I knew an Army MG who would disagree on the Destroyer bit. He also served on a Battleship and went over to a Destroyer for a meal at their invitation. Turned a " beautiful shade of Army Green " was how it was describe to him.
I was in basic training at the RTC in San Diego back in 1985 ….. boy the Navy sure had changed drastically from 1940 a lot of the stuff they do in this film is no longer in effect by the time I enlisted
Superman was in the Navy before he became the man of steel! 😎
Superman was in the Navy
Probably was an airdale.
Benson would, one day, turn in his dress blues for a cape and a big red "S" on his chest.
The dialogue and acting are hilarious.
Interesting to see them drilling on the grinder in their "Whites" which is something we never did in 1970. We pretty much lived in our seafarers in basic with a change from dixie cups to ball caps after service week. I'm trying to remember if I ever wore my Whites at all during my enlistment.
Dad spent a bit of time in whites. But in Dress Whites as a Chief. Only picture we have seen of him on Cyprus in uniform was in dress whites. Otherwise he spent most of his time out of uniform. Travel to and from base to/from home was always done in civilian clothes. He was buried in his dress blues. Overseas travel orders always were for in civilian clothes too. Even on military aircraft.
01:45 The Beverly Hillbillies arrive at RTC San Diego.
The first color episode of 'The Beverly Hillbillies" (9/15/1965) [Admiral Clampett] was probably the funniest one; Mr. Drysdale has invited the Clampetts down to the yacht club to encourage them to purchase a big yacht. Not knowing what the proper attire is at a yacht club, Mr. Clampett sends Jethro out to buy some "proper attire" and he comes back from a Hollywood costumer with naval officer uniforms. Then they get lost driving and end up at the Naval Base. Hilarity ensues!!!
@@RighteousReverendDynamite That sounds funny. I'll check it out on YT. Thanks!
I doubt a top class blonde like the librarian would be wasting her time on a CPO with lots of good looking young officers on base.
Maybe she preferred an old salt to a young shavetail.
My how times have changed!
My dad went to RTC San Diego in 1954
Who in the Navy in 2019?
A better Navy.
Immediately I thought "King Kong"!
I think Vincent would be a OK super man
Fun and entertaining.. Company commanders although not officers are addressed as sir. Anyway this is Hollywood's version but I still like it. Ex Navy
Choose your rating...well where the Navy needs men they send them.
That was how dad got out of Great Lakes after 3 years there as an instructor. BUPERS told him the only way out was to join the Naval Security Group or he would be stuck there even longer. Next day after signing on the dotted line, he had orders to Hawaii to school and then to Guam. In 1956 he was forced to sign another form changing his rating from an ET to a CT or he would be removed from the NSG.
Okay, who put the crow on the right sleeve of the chief's dress coat? and so low. Oh well, they probably threw that in to get us old salts riled up
Right arm rates- BM, SM, GM, QM.
This is totally tacky, but still fun to watch. And being color blind will not keep you out, but it does restrict what ratings you can go for quite a bit.
I never told them I have double vision and I spent 22 years in the navy . When I first went in I had over 20/20 vision and wore glasses when I took my eye test they asked why I wore glasses told them I did not know : )
Being color blind kept my dad out when he tried to enlist in the navy in 1946.
@@Darrellbalfour Dad went in in 1946 but wasn't color blind. Back then they had a lot of people that they were cashiering out and were a bit more picky about those coming in. Dad was one of the last ones to graduate in 1946 at Bainbridge and had to stay an extra day for a parade as it was the 5th anniversary of Pearl Harbor.
When deck ratings wore their rank on the right arm...
The base looked pretty much the same when I went to boot in 73.
Me too in 1963.
I was there in August of 1972. Went on to be an AW at Moffet Field Ca.
same here, left there in 77. kinda of a treat to see the old place again
Since when does a Chief blow the Bosun's whistle?
Those concrete washing tables and wooden brushes still looked same in 1963. Got home from boot camp the day before John F Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 @ 11:32AM PST.
Joann is pretty darn cute!
Ice Fishing on the Great Lakes in winter would have been fun during boot camp
I found a frozen cat while on fire watch once while there. Plopped that cat on the watch desk and got that nights fire watch patrol suspended that night. Fire Control Technician School.
MMMM no I was born and grew up in Chicago and lived One block from the lake It was not a good type of frozen You could see water flowing under it and it went up and down as you walked on it .
Saw Superman
How do the marines line up with the sailors on ship?
We kept them hidden from the view of civilized people.
:p
Why does the Chief have an Irish accent???
Robert Armstrong was a native of Michigan, born in 1890. Regional accents such as his were very pronounced in America until well after WWII. Also the acting style of pre-WWII films was different. Armstrong was noted for his clipped, rapid-fire delivery, similar to James Cagney and Pat O'Brien.
TransAtlantic dialect used for stage and screen back then.
Glad I joined the air force.
7:05 Wow Choosing Their Career in the Navy. What About those Toilet Cleaners.
Blue Marshall captain of the head is an honorable position
My father trained there. I should ave done the same.
Umm guys, this is 1940. You sure you really want that Pearl Harbor assignment?
Hey.. no ball's.. no blue chips.. lol
I know this music! It’s was used in ‘’NavalCraft’’!
P.S: the music is at the biggining
Now they knew how to wear there white hats : ) I hate the way they wheat them now days ,Had wings on mine and on the back of the head with a big blond wave of hair ,Just not when the shore patrol was a round ha ha ( was 1960 to I ret )
Good movie but it’s not the same as real Boot Camp because they didn’t cuss every other word. Of course now I hear they don’t cuss at all
yeahhh,, it might hurt some ones feelings.... kinda makes you want to barf does'nt it?
THIS A FILM?
@@UCFGIjd5F0qUWzNllsu9aMIA, we thank you for the film; but your review is needlessly harsh. Remember the time...
Sadly, the first ship in this film is the Pennsylvania, badly damaged at Pearl Harbor.
I wouldn't say heavily. The Pennsylvania only took one bomb hit and less then 40 casualties. She was also repaired fairly quickly. Her sister the Arizona was the most heavily damaged Battleship and had the most casualties.
This is hilariously goofy.
Where's the god dam dungarees?
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Je. Una marina racista la de los 40..."" 🤔🇺🇸
If I were around in ww2 and had to sign up the one question I would be asking myself is what service would be least likely to get me killed.
bustermk2 honestly the navy wouldn't be a good choice lol. Sometimes the whole ship would go down and sometimes only a few hundred out of thousands will live
@@naples4962 Ground crew in the USAF or Royal Hampshire Regiment Band.
so what did you pick?.. and why?
Looks so good no women