For the Navy's data systems technicians, the road to the fleet ran through Mare Island, where the Combat Systems Technical Schools Command was the rating's primary training school. The DS rating was...
The first ship a lot of San Diego recruits ever boarded never left the base: USS Recruit, a two-thirds scale destroyer escort built on dry land in 1949, which sailors knew as USS Neversail. Recruits...
The yellow footprints outside receiving are the first piece of Parris Island a recruit touches, and no Marine ever forgets the night he stood on them. The depot at Port Royal, South Carolina has...