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global1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-27-08 09:33 PM Original message |
Is Chicago's Great Lake Naval Base Still Open And Do They Train Soldiers For... |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-27-08 09:43 PM Response to Original message |
1. Do you mean Glenview? |
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Wiley50 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-27-08 10:13 PM Response to Reply #1 |
9. I think you are asking about Waukeegan |
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SnoopDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-27-08 10:22 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. The Internets say North Chicago.... |
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Wiley50 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-27-08 10:54 PM Response to Reply #11 |
17. OK spelling nazi, Great Lakes Naval Air Station was in Waukegan |
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SnoopDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-27-08 11:02 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. Sorry Wiley... just that ... |
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Nickster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-28-08 09:39 PM Response to Reply #17 |
40. I think you're thinking of Glenview Naval Air Station. Great Lakes is the main boot camp for sailors |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-27-08 09:44 PM Response to Original message |
2. I was in Great Lakes for boot camp ....... in fucking January and fucking February. |
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Webster Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-27-08 10:11 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. It was the shits! |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-27-08 10:18 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Two years before me ..... |
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Ezlivin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-28-08 11:46 AM Response to Reply #2 |
35. I had to hug ice to get warmer |
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Mark E. Smith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-28-08 09:45 PM Response to Reply #2 |
41. Still there |
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reformedrethug (288 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-27-08 09:44 PM Response to Original message |
3. As far as I know |
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global1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-27-08 09:52 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. The Reason I'm Asking Is I Got The Following E-Mail And It Didn't Sound Right To Me....... |
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Bozita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-27-08 10:43 PM Response to Reply #5 |
16. Simply amazing how many times $25 was mentioned. Betting that would raise some eyebrows... |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-27-08 11:16 PM Response to Reply #5 |
21. the thing that bugs me is when they talk about the troops in iraq being there to "defend america" |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-28-08 12:20 AM Response to Reply #5 |
24. Bogus on several levels |
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JJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-28-08 01:07 AM Response to Reply #5 |
30. highly doubt it happened |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-28-08 01:23 AM Response to Reply #5 |
32. Oh, give me a fucking break. |
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Ezlivin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-28-08 11:50 AM Response to Reply #5 |
37. And the soldiers were Democrats |
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GinaMaria (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-27-08 09:49 PM Response to Original message |
4. Great Lakes Naval base was still open as of a few months ago |
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SnoopDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-27-08 10:06 PM Response to Original message |
6. My dad was at Great Lakes... |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-27-08 10:07 PM Response to Original message |
7. I took my mum to the commissary there earlier this month |
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EC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-27-08 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
12. My across the street neighbor is stationed there. |
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HawkerHurricane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-27-08 10:30 PM Response to Original message |
13. Great Lakes NTC is still open. |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-27-08 10:33 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. San Diego is closed? |
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HawkerHurricane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-27-08 10:40 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Yes. |
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puerco-bellies (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-27-08 10:57 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Bummer.. I did my boot camp at Worm Island (San Diego RTC) |
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PsN2Wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-28-08 12:17 AM Response to Reply #13 |
23. Didn't know you were a signalman HH |
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HawkerHurricane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-28-08 09:38 PM Response to Reply #23 |
39. One of the last... |
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JimWis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-27-08 10:56 PM Response to Original message |
18. Even if they were soldiers, maybe Army, they may have been |
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PsN2Wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-28-08 12:14 AM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Being out on the grinder at USNTC San Diego |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-28-08 12:22 AM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Hubby got pneumonia at Great Lakes |
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PsN2Wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-28-08 12:45 AM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Went thru Boot Camp summer '57 |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-28-08 12:51 AM Response to Reply #27 |
29. a couple decades after you did |
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HawkerHurricane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-28-08 09:37 PM Response to Reply #29 |
38. I went through 'boot' in 1984... |
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cherokeeprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-28-08 12:33 AM Response to Reply #22 |
26. The bus ride from MEPS in L.A. to NTC in San Diego was something I'll never forget. |
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PsN2Wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-28-08 12:50 AM Response to Reply #26 |
28. My first time in an airplane |
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cherokeeprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-28-08 01:15 AM Response to Reply #28 |
31. My Pop's drill instructer sucker punched him and knocked him out on the grinder for |
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NickB79 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-28-08 02:53 AM Response to Reply #22 |
33. You know the old joke about falling into the cold waters of the Great Lakes, don't you? |
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JimWis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-28-08 11:15 AM Response to Reply #22 |
34. The grinder. That brings back memories. I was there in summer |
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YvonneCa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-28-08 11:48 AM Response to Reply #34 |
36. What an interesting thread. :) I lived at... |
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