I went to Navy Boot Camp at NRTC, Great Lakes.
It was February. There was snow up to the treetops, and more was falling. It was so cold, snot-sickles formed on contact with the air. There were some holes in the snow, steam grates from Hell, I guessed, where somewhere below the frozen gulag, earlier recruits were being boiled and skinned alive.
Soon as the bus stopped, some ugly mean scary dude stepped aboard, and started yelling, "You F'n Maggots ...". And so it went, just like that, for the next ten or twelve weeks.
My son went to Navy boot camp in Illinois...but he played the trombone all through High School, he went into the Basic training Navel band and spend most of this time in parades playing his trombone...easy basic training...he never did shoot a gun, but said no one trust a navy man with a gun anyway unless they are attacked to sides of ships....Thats why they have marines on ships...