Any Advice for Naval Station Great Lakes

[candycorn]

One of my comadres in Texas is losing her son to the Navy. He reports to the Great Lakes Naval Station in January.... Chicago in January.

Anyone here ever been through that? If so...just how cold is it?

 

[westwall]

One of my comadres in Texas is losing her son to the Navy. He reports to the Great Lakes Naval Station in January.... Chicago in January.

Anyone here ever been through that? If so...just how cold is it?

The only first hand knowledge I have is a good friend taught WAVES how to swim there during WWII.

He said it was nice.

 

[Muhammed]

One of my comadres in Texas is losing her son to the Navy. He reports to the Great Lakes Naval Station in January.... Chicago in January.

Anyone here ever been through that? If so...just how cold is it?

It's on Lake Michigan, so you get that damp wet cold that sucks the heat right out of your bones, making them contract in protest. That will be a new experience for a Texas boy.

 

[fncceo]

losing her son to the Navy.

She’ll get him back … as a man.

 

[Muhammed]

If they get some free time, tell him and his buddies to go to Kingston Mines and tell the bartender that Hairball sent them.

 

[JoeB131]

One of my comadres in Texas is losing her son to the Navy. He reports to the Great Lakes Naval Station in January.... Chicago in January.

Anyone here ever been through that? If so...just how cold is it?

I didn't train there, but my Guard unit occasionally had to rely on it and Ft. Sheridan for support.

It is often cold in the winter up here, but we had a 90 Degree day yesterday in October, so who knows what winter is going to be like this year.

It's a mostly nice facility.

 

[22lcidw]

One of my comadres in Texas is losing her son to the Navy. He reports to the Great Lakes Naval Station in January.... Chicago in January.

Anyone here ever been through that? If so...just how cold is it?

There used to be a joke. Great Lakes Recruit Training Center had August and Winter. It can get cool at night there.

 

[Moonglow]

She’ll get him back … as a man.

Hopefully.

 

[whitehall]

Losing a son? That's a strange and vaguely insulting way to put it. The facility has been open since around 1910 so they have nothing to fear.

 

[JoeB131]

Losing a son? That's a strange and vaguely insulting way to put it. The facility has been open since around 1910 so they have nothing to fear.

Yes, that was an odd phrase. Does your friend not approve of his choice?

Do you think he stops being her son because he becomes a sailor?

 

[fncceo]

I was so lucky that RTC San Diego was around for my Boot Camp, A-School, BE/E School, and Morse training. San Diego is one of the nicest cities in America and I was there for over a year.

 

[Dekster]

I know a couple people who trained there. They didn't really have any complaints about it.

 

[whitehall]

Anyway it's good to discuss an American Military concept instead of wading through Litwin's dreary Russian propaganda that clogged up the forum for so long.