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MD_Vet
06-27-2013, 06:47 PM
Class of 2017...

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151490829818091&set=a.10151490828933091.1073741851.94274618090&type=3&l=8a6af6ad1f&theater

muggsy
06-28-2013, 02:33 PM
More info please.

O'Dell
06-28-2013, 03:19 PM
Ah yes, I remember it well in late June 19xx. The one thing I recall most was having to stencil my name and new service number on EVERYTHING. I still have a cap, reefer, and slide rule with my name and 6317 in half-inch high letters and numerals.

MD_Vet
06-28-2013, 03:19 PM
The link is to pictures taken at the Naval Academy of the new plebes being mustered in... I thought the folks here might find them interesting.

dkmatthews
06-28-2013, 03:56 PM
The USN is/was obsessed with having names & numbers stenciled on all of your issued gear. Heaven help you if you screwed it up.

Armybrat
06-28-2013, 04:06 PM
Wait.... y'all are saying the Swabbies actually know how to write their names?

Who'd a' thunk it? :eek:

MD_Vet
06-28-2013, 04:13 PM
Ah yes, I remember it well in late June 19xx. The one thing I recall most was having to stencil my name and new service number on EVERYTHING. I still have a cap, reefer, and slide rule with my name and 6317 in half-inch high letters and numerals.

If 6317 was your service number then the year must have been 1901...:D

O'Dell
06-28-2013, 05:00 PM
If 6317 was your service number then the year must have been 1901...:D

Nope. That number was for USNA use only. After graduation I got a slightly longer one. The use of SS numbers as service numbers started sometime in the early seventies I think.

Getting back to the pictures, those people have no idea what's about to happen to them. I know we didn't. The stress of the next four years, especially plebe year, cannot be imagined by a seventeen year old that grew up in the fifties and had never been away from home like me. I hope everyone of them makes it, but I know that there will always be a thirty per cent attrition. Ninety per cent won't involve academics either.

O'Dell
06-28-2013, 05:05 PM
Wait.... y'all are saying the Swabbies actually know how to write their names?

Who'd a' thunk it? :eek:

Swabbies??? We were officers and gentlemen from day one by act of congress! :rolleyes: