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Hey all,
I run a Depper forum (www.NavyDEP.com) for soon-to-be sailors that are in the DEP program. I have alot of data for them which gets them pumped up and ready for bootcamp. One of the last missing pieces I would want to know is how the inside of the ships are laid out. I got most of it, but I would like to a couple of recruits that are already at bootcamp to verify it so I can correct some of the info.
Here is a couple other questions I had:
1. All the ships at GL were contracted together. So all of them were built exactly the same. So when a female division is formed, do they have urinal in their bathrooms (heads)? If so do they have plastic around them, so trash isn't put in them? The reason I ask, is when I went to bootcamp in Orlando, the female RDC would put plants in them, and they would have a designate sailor who's duty was to flush those urinals everyday, to water the plants.
2. On the 2nd or 3rd floor of the ship, does the hallway extend to the area over the Galley? In my drawing what is the blue area on the 2nd or 3rd floor?
3. How many windows does the compartment have. I know the end has 5+1 (5 together, 1 seperate)
Weird questions huh?
Here is a bit of trivia I think you will find cool: Because the Battle Stations project was designed to be used by able-bodied recruits, the designer could ignore Americans with Disabilities Act requirements.
So, is what I have. I'm hoping I can make a better drawing:
USS Marvin Shields Quarterdeck
USS Kearsarge Quarterdeck
Inside of a Compartment
Inside a Compartment:
Inside a compartment:
Outside:
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Permalink Reply by Anti M on
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That's a lot different that Orlando! Roomier and certainly better designed.
I don't remember having plants in our urinals. Our compartment was rumored to be haunted, but I think every place is the Navy is rumored to be haunted.
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Permalink Reply by Craig on
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Anti - Your correct every place in the Navy is rumored to be hauted. At Great Lake they're called RDC's....
Just curious, in Orlando, were your urinals just wrapped in plastic? or were they just left open? I've had many females say is was funny because someone was assigned the Plant Flushing detail....
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Honestly, I have zero recollection of the urinals. I'm sure they were there ... probably wrapped in plastic as our compartment had been mothballed for several months before we were put in it. Dusty and dirty, we had to do a lot of cleaning. LOL, more than usual.
Yes, RDCs, not CCs, divisions, not companies, sections, not platoons.
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The racks look like coffin lockers to me. We had an open locker with one small drawer at the end. One time, I was on the floor cleaning and looked up at the bottom of my locker, saw years and years worth of hidden graffiti. Kinda cool, like a secret.
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Anti - Orlando RTC was built in 1968 and was built only for guys. The only female bathrooms at the time were for guest in the CO's office area. The female recruits trained in Bainbridge, Maryland. Then in 1973 they decided to move the females to Orlando. The only problem with this was now the guys always heard "Where is the Chow hall, where is the Exchange". Guys never ask for directions so those words were never uttered at Orlando prior to that... j/k
I'm always looking for cool topics to tell the deppers about boot camp. Thus why I ask about the urinals. Frankly, I think the coolest thing to have them look at when they land in Chicago is to go to the bathroom and look at the toilets. Chicago is the only place on this earth that I have found automatic "butt gaskets" on the toilets. For those that don't know that that is, it's the protectors that are normally mounted on the wall that you put off and place on the toilet. In Chicago, they're automatic. I even took a picture of them the last time I went to PIR so I could tell these deppers. It's funny the letters I get from them, the 1st line is always "Man, that was cool watching the toilet protector going around the rim".... Man, the stuff people in this world taken for granted....only in America could this happen! God Bless America!
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I've seen those in Japan.... heheheh. In the super automatic toilet outside the park in Yokohama I think. It practically held your ... hand ... for you.
Maybe most of the young ladies would have noticed the urinals more than I did, I joined at an older age (22), and had already traveled a lot and lived in fun places like Iran. Unusual toilets arrangements barely made it onto my radar. I'd already experienced coed bathrooms with real live men in them. Yikes!
That's why I love the Navy, the places it takes us, the things we see and do. My dad was a Masterchief, so I was "born Navy". I joined, and then I married a sailor myself. I've had an ID card seemingly forever.
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Permalink Reply by FLA NavyMom1501 on
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Thanks. Very informative. I like knowing more about what is happening to my SR.
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