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Thank you for the photo of the Orlando NTC. There are some discrepancies in the labels on the photo.
The building labeled officers school is what we called the 'dark side.' After spending 3 months in the first building you packed up all of your books and marched over to the other building, called the dark side because the classes were much more intense and you would never see the sun because of all the studying you had to do.
The buildings you have marked RTC is....not sure what it was called but they had other schools there such as torpedoeman and others. Not sure what else. Recruit training command is actually the buildings above the navy exchange.
Anyway hope this helps I was there in '88-89
I second what Scada said. The first 12 weeks of NNPS was spent on the dark side. Officers were trained in one wing (Starboard) side of the building labeled as Power School. The attrition rate was so high, that after 12 weeks, there were only enough students left to occupy two wings. I stood guard duty in these buildings for 2 months in between 'A' school and nuke school. I graduated NNPS class 8703.
I was at NNPS in 1978. During the first half we had classes in the building labeled as the Nuclear Power School. For the second half, we moved to the building identified as the officer's school. Enlisted classes for my section (MMN) were in the wing on the east side of the building during the second half. I recall the area between the wings of the 'officer's school,' as being open to the sky (where the building watch stood duty). The HVAC went out in our wing for about a week during July or August.
I agree with Stozzelson. I was there from Fall of 1981 to Spring of 1982. I was housed in Building 367, almost dead even with the middle of the circle. I would waylay the roach coach every Saturday and Sunday morning for pizza and Pepsi.
Yep == The buildings you labeled RTC were multiple A Schools.. also regular ET - along with what scada and Mike said.. I was there for RTC in 89 Company C226 - Then I think my "a" School Class of 9012
This photo is older than when i wet to nnps when i went to mm a school there were 2 towers for barracks over next to baldwin lake.
i went to nuke school in orlando from about august 1976 to about march 1977...I spent a couple weeks or possibly more buffing floors in the enlisted nuke school side (which is the building to the south of the officer nuke school--the enlisted nuke school building was the one closer to the galley)...then I was in a class for basic math for about a month in the enlisted nuke school building... then regular nuke school classes began and lasted for several months...
I was an ET, in the lower section...there were 2 sections, one for those who had not had advanced math yet...
we had one classroom, and it was in the enlisted nuke school building on the west side of that building...some excellent classes in that curriculum...we never entered the officer nuke school...my barracks was the building directly to the east of the officer nuke school, right on the sidewalk... I once found a 20 dollar bill on that sidewalk in front of the officer nuke school...a few memories of that time spent there...
I was in NNPTC Orlando in 97, there at that point it was power school and officer school. Enlisted did not have classes in the dark side building. So many good memories and some traumatic ones as well, lol.
I was at AUWS Orlando, 1971. Met my wife at the Acey Duecy Club that was just across the beach on Lake Baldwin (Lake Corrine back then.) There's a Mexican restaurant there now. Had lunch at just about the location of the bar at the Acey Duecy. Place sure looks different now.
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