Spent the last few weeks traveling around to different leadership schools. From Lemoore traveled to Fallon, NV for the Senior Officer Course, then to Newport, Rhode Island for the Command Leadership School, then for a quick two day trip to Great Lakes, Illinois to visist the Navy's Recruit Training Center (where all our new recruits go through basic training). The top picture is us eating lunch with some of the recruits during their fourth week of training (the training is 8 weeks long). They get only 12 minutes to eat each meal and aren't allowed normally to talk to anyone while eating, so it was a challenge to get them to open up about how their training was going. The second and third picture are of a graduation ceremony where ~800 Sailors graduated from basic training to be sent to their A schools (initial training in rate) or to the Fleet. (Third pic is just of the Texas and Alaska flags beside each other with the US flag in the background - couldn't resist that pic). Great Lakes graduates about 40,000 Navy Sailors each year - a fast and efficient operation. The last pic is of the carrier Saratoga - decommissioned and moored in Newport awaiting disposition. Some carriers will be turned into museums after decommissioning, others will be sunk and turned into underwater reefs. I think the Saratoga is set to become a museum somewhere.
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