Posted on Dec 29, 2014
PO2 Corey Ferretti
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Navy ball cap
I was unpacking a box and found my original issue Recruit and Navy Ball cap brought back so many memories. Interested to see if anyone else held onto items from boot camp. it was 12 years ago that i was in boot camp.
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CN Lorena Welch
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Yes, as a matter of fact I do still have some original items from Bootcamp. Recently I was in a dance skit to the song "In the Navy" by The Village People. We were to wear Navy Uniforms. I went to the thrift store and bought a woman's white Cracker Jack shirt men's pants and woman's white belt. I wore my own garrison cover and leather work shoes. It felt awkward to be wearing a uniform that was for the purpose of doing a skit. However on the same token it felt good to be wearing two items that were truly mine.
Afterward I was told I was the only one who obviously had previous military training in marching and saluting. After thirty years it would have felt even better to have been able to wear my dress blues but the old waistline after bearing ten children is several inches greater. I tried on my jacket and it came to each side of my waist. Haha.
Talk about a motivation to work out again. They say muscle has memory. Do you think a fifty year old woman can get her 20 inch Bootcamp waistline back? Jk
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CDR Michael Goldschmidt
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I'm pretty sure I have my original USNA Plebe Dixie Cup from 1981. I just wore out my last issued USNA T-shirt a year or so ago.
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PO2 Brandon Olivas
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I kept all of my covers, from the original recruit (stained with sweat), to my final duty station.
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SSG (ret) William Martin
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Let's see, I save some bullet from range week in basic training. Seriously I did not! The have my original stencil which is like 19 years old!
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PO2 Seabee
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Just some pictures. Wish I had more
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Yes Sir!
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SSG (ret) William Martin
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I still have my duffle bag stencil.
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SN Kyle Carpenter
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I have my Bluejackets, my yearbook, my BMR, my training binder, my sweats, my zipper bag with pens still in it, those stupid glasses, and my ex wife's stencil.
Additionally I have my grandfather's bluejackets manual from 1943
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CN Lorena Welch
CN Lorena Welch
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Hi Kyle, you are funny. Of course you are going to have you bluejackets Manual and picture book. You are a Seaman. Let me know if you still have it after thirty years. My husband and I still have ours as well. Our children can't believe how different we looked back then as opposed to now. My son's are like, Mom! You were really pretty!" And they are amazed dad had muscles! Hahaha
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SN Kyle Carpenter
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well its been 14 since recieving it, and 9 since my discharge... so i guess I still have some time to wait
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PO2 Eric Richards
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I still have my bootcamp hats as well as my Blue Jackets Maunal. I through every thing in a box to get rid of later and apparently later hasn't happened yet..
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PO3 Jack Englehart
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I still have my original blues and whites..
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PO2 Corey Ferretti
PO2 Corey Ferretti
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Ok that is commitment right there PO3 Jack Englehart.
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The blues are a bit understandable. Those things are not cheap, and somewhat durable. The whites however, I have no idea how you've managed to do that. I had to replace two sets of whites within 6 months of getting out of basic.
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PO2 Danetta Troisi
PO2 Danetta Troisi
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I still have quite a few things, that include my yearbook, photos, my leather Bates oxfords (which I still use), among other stuff that got packed in that forgotten, box that you can never find when you want it. I went to bootcamp in '84.
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My field jacket. I'm surprised it hasn't been eaten by moths yet because it's over 40 years old.
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SP5 Joel O'Brien
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Never got a yearbook or company photo because I got hurt and was transferred to a profile platoon to finish out what Basic I had to do. Only have a 'proof' photo that was taken of me with a flag and globe before I got hurt. Never got the real photo. That's O.K. Not a lot about basic that's memorable.
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I have my green monster, the original issued war bag and the original garment bag with some first issue uniforms..
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