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1971 \"THE ANCHOR\" – U.S. NAVAL TRAINING CENTER SAN DIEGO BOOT CAMP BOOK – COMPANY 71-372 – VIETNAM ERA
The Anchor, the boot camp yearbook of the Recruit Training Command, U.S. Naval Training Center, San Diego, California, for recruit Company 71-372 (1971).
COMPANY 71-372
- Company Commander: H. Leitner, EMC
- Recruit Chief Petty Officer: D. J. Justus
- Yeoman / Honorman: T. W. Rogers
- Individual recruit portraits with hometowns from across the West, including Seattle, Wash.; Park Rapids, Minn.; Clearfield and Roy, Utah; Clarkfork, Idaho; and Waterford and Westwood, Calif.
- Company photos with the \"372\" company flag, plus candids of recruit processing and inoculations
- NTC San Diego was commissioned in 1923 and trained generations of sailors until it closed in 1997. The grounds are now Liberty Station.
- This company trained in 1971, during the Vietnam War.
- The front endpapers are a full-color aerial photograph of the entire training center, with its red-tile-roofed barracks, grinder, boat channel and surrounding Point Loma neighborhoods. A previous owner marked several buildings with small ink X\'s, presumably his own barracks and training sites.
- The rear endpapers are a dramatic blue montage of the fleet: the nuclear submarine SSN-592, a carrier, a destroyer firing its guns, and an F-4 Phantom of fighter squadron VF-114.
- Color portraits of the commanding officers, followed by recruit life: training, the Navy Exchange store, Recruit Smoker boxing bouts, \"Calling Home\" at the phone booths, the Patio, \"Ships of Yesterday and Today,\" and liberty in San Diego (Mission Beach, Balboa Park and the zoo, the USO and the Armed Services YMCA).
The front cover is signed in ink: \"Jon Montague.\" Ink X marks appear on the aerial endpaper map.
CONDITION:
- Off-white textured cover with gold and blue stamping
- Heavy soiling and scattered brown spotting overall
- Spine covering worn, torn and splitting at the head
- All four corners bumped and crushed, with covering loss
- Small chip of paper loss with staining at the upper corner of the rear cover
- Owner\'s name in ink on the front cover
- Ink marks on the endpaper map
- Photos glued to the end pages
- Please review all photos
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