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Oral History of Scott T. Kidd
Tags: AFQT; AFS-3; apprentice training; Armed Forces Qualifying Test; boiler technician; boiler technicians; boot camp; boot camps; Civil Rights Act; Community Veterans History Project; Congress; CVHP; E-1; E-6; E-7; E-9; Enlisted Rank 1; Enlisted Rank 6; Enlisted Rank 7; Enlisted Rank 9; Facebook; Grinder; Guam Naval Base; John Paul; Johnson, Lyndon B.; Jones, John Paul; Kidd, Scott T.; Lone Sailor Memorial Committee; Lone Sailor Memorial Project; LPD-15; Lyndon Baines Johnson; Maldonado, Fernando; Naval Station Great Lakes; Naval Training Center Command; Naval Training Center Orlando; Navy Memorial of Central Florida; NS Great Lakes; NTC Orlando; nuclear power; Nuclear Power Training Command; orlando; recessions; recruit commanders; recruit company commanders; Recruit Training Command Orlando; Richland, Washington; RTC Orlando; tear gas chambers; U. S. Air Force; U.S. Army; U.S. Army Air Force; U.S. Navy; USS Blue Jacket; USS Iowa; USS Niagara Falls; USS Ponce; veterans
Oral History of Robert Matthews
Tags: A-7; Attack Squadron 174; aviation electronics technicians; Baldwin Park; Base Realignment and Closure Commission; basic training; Bill Nelson; boot camps; BRAC; BUILDCON; Central Florida Navy League; Central Florida Research Park; Clarence William Nelson II; co-educational; cold war; Community Veterans History Project; CVHP; demolitions; E-1; education; Enlisted Rank 1; enlistment; Expeditionary Medal; gender segregation; graduations; Grinder; Jacksonville; Lake Wales High School; Lake Wales Junior High School; Ling-Temco-Vought A-7 Corsair II; Lockheed P-3 Orion; Lone Sailor Memorial Project; LSMP; Maintenance Technician; marching; Mark Miller; Master Training Specialist; memorials; Memphis, Tennessee; Mike Philips; military education; military instructors; military leave; military training; Millington, Tennessee; NAMTRADET; NAS Jacksonville; NAS Memphis; Naval Air Maintenance Training Detachment; Naval Air Station Cecil Field; Naval Air Station Jacksonville; Naval Air Station Memphis; Naval Air Systems Command, the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division; Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division; Naval Reserve; Navy League; NAWCTSD; orlando; P-3; POW; prisoner-of-war; Recruit Training Center Orlando; Research Park; Rob Matthews; Robert Matthews; RTC Orlando; sailors; Science Drive; segregation; simulations; simulators; Soaper; Spook Hill Elementary School; training; training systems; U.S. Naval Reserves; U.S. Representatives; U.S. Senators; University Boulevard; USS Blue Jacket; VA-174; VA-87; veterans; World War II; WWII
Oral History of Michael Partain
Tags: airports; Amanda Hill; Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery; ASVAB; atopic dermatitis; Avon Park; Avon Park Air Force Range; basic training; boot camps; breast cancer; captain's mast; Carli Van Zandt; Carolyn Van Zandt; CERCLA; cold war; colleges; Community Veterans History Project; Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980; contamination; court-martial; CVHP; dermatitis; DI; disqualifications; Drill Instructor; E-3; education; engineering; engineers; Enlisted Rank 3; enlistment; Enterprise 1701; environmental cleanup; F-16; General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon; gig lines; higher education; Hill, Amanda; hospitals; illness; illnesses; inspections; instructors; Lake Druid; Lone Sailor Memorial Project; LSMP; MacDill AFB; MacDill Air Force Base; marching; Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune; McCoy AFB; McCoy Air Force Base; medical hold company; memorials; MET; Michael Partain; military code; military education; Military Entrance Processioning Center; Military Entrance Processioning Center Tampa; Military Entrance Test; military justice; military training; monuments; NAS Jacksonville; Naval Air Station Jacksonville; Naval Station Mayport; Naval Training Center Orlando; NS Mayport; NTC Orlando; nuclear engineering; nuclear power; nuclear propulsion; Nuclear Propulsion School; orlando; Petty Officer; Polk County; recruit training; Recruit Training Command; recruits; ring banner; Seaman; special training; Superfund; Tetrachloroethylene; toxic chemicals; toxic cleanups; U.S. Air Force; UCMJ; Uniform Code of Military Justice; universities; university; veterans; Warren B. Partain, Jr.; Warren B. Partain, Sr.; water contamination; Winter Haven; World War II; WWII
Oral History of Jeffrey Edward Clark
Tags: active duty; Air Apprenticeship Training; airman; airmen; Apopka; apprentices; apprenticeship schools; Apprenticeship Training Program; Atlanta, Georgia; Atlantic Ocean; Azores Islands; Bainbridge; Baldwin Park; Bank of America; bank tellers; Barnes, Mark; basic seaman recruits; berthing areas; boot camp; boot camps; chief petty officer; chief petty officers; Clark, Jeffrey Edward; Community Veterans History Project; Company 101; CVHP; Dan Taylor; Daytona Beach Community College; DBCC; deck divisions; deployment; E-1; E-2; E-3; E-4; East Hartford, Connecticut; Enlisted Rank 1; Enlisted Rank 2; Enlisted Rank 3; Enlisted Rank 4; Facebook; Fire Control Technicians; firefighters; fireman; firemen; Firemen Apprenticeship Training; Flagler County; Flagler Palm Coast High School; Forrest Gump; Greyhound; guided missile destroyers; Hayne, Gary; Hazen, Kendra; helmsman; helmsmen; I-4; I-94; immigrants; Inactive Readiness Reserves; inactive reserves; Interstate 4; Interstate 95; IRR; Italian immigrants; Italians; Kiesden, Kurt; Kirchman Corporation; lee helms; Lieutenant Dan; Lone Sailor Foundation; Lone Sailor Memorial Committee; Lone Sailor Memorial Project; Luxemburg; Maitland; Mayflower; Mediterranean Sea; Mediterranean Squadron; MEP; Military Entrance Processing; Morse code; Moses; NationsBank; NATO; Naval Training Center Orlando; Navy Exchange; Navy Memorial of Central Florida; Nice, France; Norfolk, Virginia; North Atlantic; North Atlantic Squadron; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Novak, Karla; NTC Orlando; Nuclear Program; OBT; officers; Orange Blossom Trail; Orleman, Andrew; Palm Coast; Petty Officer; Petty Officers; Philippines; Ponta Delgada, Portugal; Pro Systems; Radar School; recruit training; recruits; sailors; sales representatives; San Francisco, California; Seaman Apprenticeship Training; seamen; semaphore; service representatives; Shriners Temple; signalman; Signalman School; signalmen; Storekeeper School; U.S. Army; U.S. Navy; U.S. Route 17; U.S. Route 441; U.S.S Richard E. Byrd DDG-23; UCF; University of Central Florida; US-17; US-441; USS Bluejacket; USS Chiwawa CV40; USS Richard E. Bird TDG-23; veterans; Welch, Alan; Wiggins, Leanne; World War II; WWII; YouTube
Oral History of Gordon Pierce and Trina Cothrin
Tags: A School; A-4; Afghanistan; aircraft carriers; airplanes; Arctic Ocean; aviation maintenance administrators; aviation metalsmiths; aviation structural mechanics; Baldwin Park; basic training; boot camps; Bruce Pierce; Buffalo, New York; CENTCOM; Chief Yeoman; cold war; Community Veterans History Project; Company Commander; Correctional and Instructional Standards Division Officer; CVHP; Douglas A-4 Skyhawk; education; Enduring Freedom; enlistment; F-14; facsimile; fax; Fighter Squadron 124; firefighting; Firefighting School; fires; Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 58; Florida State Road 436; Global War on Terror; Gordon Pierce; graduations; Great Lakes, Illinois; Grinder; Grumman F-14 Tomcat; GWOT; instructors; Islamic Republic of Afghanistan; Jacksonville; James Pierce; Key West; liquid oxygen; Lone Sailor Memorial Project; LSMP; MacDill AFB; MacDill Air Force Base; Master Chief Petty Officer; memorials; Memphis, Tennessee; Meridian, Mississippi; military education; military training; Miramar, San Diego, California; NAS Jacksonville; NAS Key West; NAS Meridian; NAS Miramar; NAS Sanford; Naval Air Station Jacksonville; Naval Air Station Key West; Naval Air Station Meridian; Naval Air Station Miramar; Naval Air Station Sanford; Naval Nuclear Power Training Command; Naval Station Great Lakes; Naval Training Center Orlando; NAVSTA Great Lakes; Navy Achievement Medal; Navy Commendation Medal; NS Great Lakes; NTC Orlando; Nuclear Power School; OEF; Olongapo, Philippines; Operation Enduring Freedom; orlando; Pensacola; Philippines; planes; Qatar; QWIP Technologies; recruit training; Recruit Training Center Orlando; Recruit Training Command; recruits; Republic of the Philippines; Roger Jordan Sims; RTC Orlando; sailors; Sanford; Sims, Roger Jordan; Skyhawk; SR-436; State of Qatar; swimming; Tampa; terrorism; terrorists; Tomcat; Tommy Foreman; Trina Cothrin; Trina Pierce; U.S. Army; U.S. Naval Reserve; U.S. Navy; United States Central Command; USCENTCOM; USS Blue Jacket; USS Coral Sea; USS Forrestal; USS Franklin D. Roosevelt; USS John F. Kennedy; USS Wasp; VA-72; VC-7 Tallyhoers; veterans; VF-11 Thunderbolt; VF-124; VF-171; Vietnam War; VR-58; War in Afghanistan; War on Terror
Oral History of Frank V. Boffi
Tags: Allied Invasion of Sicily; Anzio Beach, Italy; Arabs; Attack of Pearl Harbor; Battle of Anzio; Battle of Okinawa; battle stars; Bill Suey; boot camps; Boston, Massachusetts; camaraderie; catacombs; Cavinar; Certified Safety Professional; Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; construction; Cranston, Rhode Island; CSP; decoys; destroyers; Don Hackler; Doug Aiken; drafts; engineering; engineers; FDR; Fort Lewis; Frank V. Boffi; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Franklin Delano Rooosevelt; Frontline of Anzio and Nettuno; Great Depression; hammocks; health care; hospitals; immigrants; immigration; insurance; Islam; Italian Americans; Italian Campaign; Italy; jack stands; Kamikazes; Lone Sailor Memorial Project; Luis Santana Garcia; machinists; Marc Ennis; Mark Barnes; Mediterranean Seas; mental health; Moose Club; Muslims; Naval Air Warfare Center; Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division; Naval Training Center Orlando; Navy League; NAWC; NAWCTSD; New Deal; Newport, Rhode Island; North Africa; NTC Orlando; Occupational Safety and Health Act; OCS; Officer Candidate School; Okinawa, Japan; Operation Husky; Operation Iceberg; Operation Shingle; Oran, Algeria; orlando; OSHA; Pacific Theater; Purple Heart Foundation; Purple Hearts; retirement; San Francisco, California; San Pedro, California; screening; skeleton crews; Speedo; Sun Valley, Idaho; Tears of a Warrior: A Family's Story of Combat and Living with PTSD; Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands; training; Trigger; U.S. Navy; UCF; UCF Community Veterans History Project; UCF CVHP; University of Central Florida; University of South Florida; USF; USS Bernadou; USS Brownson; USS Fiske; USS Hugh W. Hadley; VA; Vatican; Vatican City; Vatican Necropolis; veterans; Veterans Administration; wars; Works Progress Administration; World War II; WPA; WWII
Oral History of Doris McClendon
Tags: administrative schools; administrative yeoman; administrative yeomans; African Americans; AIMD; Aircraft Intermediate Makers Department; basic training; Blue Lagoon; boot camps; calisthenics; Community Veterans History Project; Company Commanders; CVHP; E-1; E-5; Enlisted Rank 1; Enlisted Rank 5; Fleet Training Group; Germany; Goulds; Grinder; Homestead; Honolulu, Hawaii; Jacksonville; JAG Corps; JROTC; Judge Advocate General's Corps; Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps; Keflavík, Iceland; legal assistants; legalman; legalmen; Legalmen A School; Lone Sailor Memorial Committee; Lone Sailor Memorial Project; mail calls; Mason, Perry; Mays Junior High School; McClendon, Dee; McClendon, Doris; Miami; NAS Keflavík; Naval Air Depot Jacksonville; Naval Air Station Keflavík; Naval Legal Services Detachment; Naval Station Key West; Naval Station Newport; Naval Station Norfolk; Naval Station Pearl Harbor; Naval Training Center Orlando; Navy Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps; Navy Marine Corps Trial Judiciary; Navy Memorial of Central Florida; Newport, Rhode Island; NJROTC; Norfolk, Virginia; NTC Orlando; orlando; paralegals; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; physical fitness; Pine Villa Elementary School; recruit training; Recruit Training Command; recruiters; Rhode Island; San Antonio, Texas; South Dade Senior High School; TAD; temporary additional duty; U. S. Air Force; U.S. Army; U.S. Navy; UCF; UM; Uncle Sam; University of Central Florida; University of Miami; USS Arizona; USS Arizona Memorial; USS Bluejacket; VA; VA hospital; veterans; Veterans Health Administration; Virginia; Weeks, Andrew Glen; yeoman school; yeoman schools
Oral History of Connie Reuter
Tags: Abingdon, Virginia; active duty; Airman Apprenticeship Training School; Baldwin Park; basic training; Beechcraft T-34 Mentor; birth control glasses; boot camps; chapels; chow halls; church; churches; cold war; Community Veterans History Project; Connie Reuter; Corpus Christi, Texas; CVHP; Delayed Entry Program; DEP; drill teams; education; educators; enlistment; eyeglasses; females; firearms; Fleet Week; G.I. glasses; gas chambers; gig lines; glasses; graduations; Ground Zero; guns; Hines; inactive duty; Ingelside, Texas; instructors; Leanne Wiggins; Liberty Call; Lone Sailor Memorial Project; LSMP; Martha Reuter; memorials; MEP; Merritt; military education; Military Entrance Processing; military training; NAS Corpus Christi; Naval Air Station Corpus Christi; Naval Air Station Ingelside; Naval Air Warfare Center Training System Division; Naval Training Center Orlando; Navy Buddy Enlistment Program; NAWCTSD; New York City, New York; NS Ingelside; NTC Orlando; orlando; peanut butter; Petty Officer, Second Class; photographer's mates; photographers; photography; Recruit Training Center; Recruit Training Center Orlando; recruits; RTC Orlando; sailors; ships; suicides; T-34; teachers; The Grinder; training; U.S. Naval Reserve; U.S. Navy; USN; USNR; USS Blue Jacket; veterans; weather; woman; women; World Trade Center; WTC
Oral History of Chad Etchison
Tags: advanced training; Anderson, Indiana; Baldwin Park; basic training; Bill Clinton; Blythe, William Jefferson III; boot camp; boot camps; Central Florida Navy League; Chad Eric Joyner; Chad Etchison; Colonial Plaza; Command Master Chief; Command Senior Chief; Community Veterans History Project; Conner; contraband; CVHP; cycling; Dam Neck, Virginia; Des Moines, Iowa; Electronics Technician School; electronics technicians; enlistment; ET; Fleet Combat Training Center; Global War on Terror; graduation; GWOT; Jacksonville; Joint Service Commendation Medal; Jonesboro, Georgia; Lake Baldwin; Lana Etchison; Lone Sailor Memorial Project; LSMP; Manatees; marching; Mark Etchison; Mayport; McDonald's; memorials; military training; NACC; Naval Expeditionary Combat Command Operations Force Center; Naval Station Mayport; Naval Training Center Orlando; Naval Training Center San Diego; Navy Achievement Medal; Navy Commendation Medal; Navy League; Navy Operational Support Center; Navy Operations Force Center; Navy Senior Enlisted Academy; NECC; NOSC; NS Mayport; NTC Orlando; NTC San Diego; Operation Active Endeavor; orlando; Presidential Service Badge; rain parties; Recruit Training Center Orlando; recruits; RTC Orlando; sailors; San Diego, California; Secret Service; Senior Chief; Senior Chief Petty Officer; Senior Enlisted Advisor; The Grinder; Tim Slewroo; Tom Johnson; U.S. Navy; U.S. Secret Service; United Service Organization; USO; USS Blue Jacket; USS John A. Moore; USS Simpson; USS Wadsworth; USSS; veterans; volleyball; WHCA; White House Communications Agency; William Jefferson Blythe III; William Jefferson Clinton
Oral History of Alan R. Holtz
Tags: 1st Gulf War; 1st Iraq War; 9/11; aircraft carrier; aircraft carriers; Alan R. Holtz; basic training; boot camp; boot camps; Brooklyn, New York City, New York; Community Veterans History Project; conscription; CVHP; Democratic Republic of Vietnam; Desert Shield; Desert Storm; drafts; E-6; education; Enlisted Rank 6; enlistment; First Gulf War; First Iraq War; Gulf War; Hancock; instructors; Iraq War; Jared Grossi; Kuwait War; liberties; liberty; military education; military training; naval instructors; North Vietnam; Operation Desert Shield; Operation Desert Storm; Persian Gulf War; Philippines; Republic of the Philippines; Republic of Vietnam; San Diego, California; selective service; September 11th; Socialist Republic of Vietnam; South Vietnam; TAR; terrorism; terrorists; training; Training and Administration of the Reserve; U.S. Naval Reserve; U.S. Navy; USS Hancock; veterans; Vietnam; Vietnam War; watch; watches