Fond Memories of NTC

Here are some of my memories from what is now Liberty Station.

In a way, I know it’s progress, and in another way it hurts.

I attended boot camp in 1981, right there at RTC. I spent several months there afterwards before heading out to the fleet.

I didn’t know it, but it would be 5 years later and I would find myself back there as an E-5. There, I took my wife, and we stayed. We enjoyed the San Diego life style of two sailors in love!

5 more years later, we left San Diego  -  only to revisit in memories, friendly conversations with now-retirees that still call San Diego their home and in aerial photos provided by satellite imagry.

As a young sailor, I learned how to become a man there. I learned what 90 degrees, a hot tarmac and dress blues does to a young man!

Some day, maybe I’ll visit Liberty Station and see how new life has been breathed into old Naval History!

Eliot Jackson
Alamo, Texas

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