I did basic at Great Mistakes over the summer. I had to stay over the winter for A school.
One day in the winter, they announced that the wind chill factor was 59 degrees below zero. All I could think was that’s much colder than yesterday that was only 40 below zero.
the good part for me was, after basic, I went to San Diego for 13(?) weeks of Radioman school..The ship I was assigned to was the USS El Dorado, LCC-11 also in San Diego..first thing the RM1 in charge told us was..paraphrasing, “The Navy just spent thousands of thousands of dollars to train you. It’s my job to make sure you forget everything you’re learned. I’m going to teach you the way things really are”...
heh..he was a good guy..