File:Camp Nimitz, 1960.jpg
Overhead shot of Camp Nimitz at the Naval Training Center in San Diego, CA, circa 1960. This area was constructed in 1954-1955, and was where recruits would spend their first three weeks in bootcamp. This area consisted of 16 barracks buildings (left and right), the marching grinder (center top), and mess hall/galley (Center). Later expansions added two 3-story barracks (Buildings 88-89,1967), two 4-story classroom/barracks buildings (Buildings 479-480, 1971), and a new Recruit Receiving and Outfitting center (Building 557, 1978).
Today, the barracks on left, and the mess hall have been demolished for a parking lot for the San Diego airport. The grinder is now home to the San Diego Metropolitan Wastewater Department. Only the barracks on the right are still standing today; they are used for fire training exercises by the San Diego Fire Department. The structures built in 1967, 1971, and 1978 are still standing as well.
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Picture taken from The Anchor, Naval Training Center yearbook, 1960. originally posted to Flickr as Camp Nimitz, 1960
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This image is a work of a U.S. military or Department of Defense employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States.
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