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Chapter 4 THE FANTAIL (BACK)

Rev: Triton 1.0

USS Triton Ship-12 The Meaning

of the Recruit Training Command (RTC)

Great Lakes Challenge Coin

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USS Triton Ship-12 at

Recruit Training Command (RTC) Great Lakes

THE REST OF THE STORY (The Long Version)

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THE USS TRITON – SHIP 12 @ RTC

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THE USS TRITON – SHIP 12 @ RTC

USS Triton Ship 12

side view.

Recruits in groups of more than 8 will enter here

USS Triton Ship 12

corner view

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WHERE IS THE USS TRITON – SHIP 12?

So where exactly is the

USS Triton at Great Lakes?

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BOOT CAMP PROPERTIES

The recruit training base in Great Lakes consist of 3 separate properties: • Camp Moffett - the main in-processing area. This is where the recruits will arrive. • Camp Porter - the main recruit training area where most of the training is taken place, and where some recruits are housed. • Camp John Paul Jones - mainly used for housing of the recruits.

Railroad tracks separates Camp John Paul Jones from Camp Porter here

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CAMP MOFFETT, PORTER, & JOHN PAUL JONES

Camp John Paul Jones

Camp Porter

Camp Moffett

Keep on this road to go to the main Navy base NTC Great Lakes .

When coming from O’Hare airport to RTC Great Lakes just head north on I-94, which will turn into I-294. Turn right on Buckley Road (IL-137), go for 8 miles. You will see Camp Moffett on the left, and Camp Porter on the right.

The Canadian National railroad tracks separates Camp Porter from Camp John Paul Jones

BEQ = Bachelor Enlisted Quarters ie the Ship (Barracks)

Note: Buckley Road divides Camp Porter (Left) and Camp Moffett (Right). There is a tunnel under the road that connects them together. The sailors will sing as they pass through the tunnel.

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RTC Great Lakes ~ Ships

USS Enterprise

Ship 10

USS Chicago

Ship 7

USS Iowa /

Battle

Stations 21

Photo

Lab

USS Pearl Harbor

Ship 1

In processing

Barracks

USS John F. Kennedy

Ship 9

USS MASON

Ship 17 for

Navet/Osvet

In processing

Barracks

USS Arizona

Ship 14

USS Constitution

Ship 6

Pacific Fleet

Drill Hall

Freedom Hall

PFA

Midway Ceremonial

Drill Hall

(Graduation)

USS Kearsarge

Ship 11

USS Marvin Shields

Ship 13

USS Theodore

Roosevelt

Ship 5

USS

Reuben James

Ship 2

Atlantic Fleet

Drill Hall

USS

Hopper

Ship 3

USS

Arleign Burke

Ship 4

Small

Arm

(SAM-T) Courtesy of

www.NavyDEP.com

NEX

Parking lot

(After PIR dropoff)

Dental

Chapel

Buckley Road

(IL-137) Lake Front

Hwy/ Amstutz

Expy

Medical/Dental

USS Chief

& Gas

Chamber

Combat

Training Pool

Uniform

Issue/Tailor

Recruit

In-processing

(Where Hell Begins)

Golden 13

Visitor Control

Center (VIP)

USS

Marlinspike Medical

Graduation

(PIR)

Entrance

USS Triton

Ship 12

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Triton

J.F.

Kennedy

Chic

ago

Kears

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Enterprise

Arizona Marvin Shields Atlantic Fleet

Drill Hall

Main entrance to Camp John Paul Jones

Canadian National railroad tracks

LAYOUT OF CAMP JOHN PAUL JONES

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TYPICAL SHIP (BARRACK) LAYOUT

1 - USS Marvin Shields 2 - USS Arizona 3 - Division muster (meeting) point & Entrance with more than 8 recruits 4 - Entrance for staff & less than 8 recruits 5 – Galley (cafeteria) (1st Floor) & Training rooms (2nd floor) 6 - Main point of entry into Camp John Paul Jones (Railroad underpass) 7 – Canadian National railroad tracks

1 2 3 3

6 7

4 4

5 5

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Notice that the Atlantic Fleet Drill Hall & USS Chicago (ship 7) are not built yet.

COOL PICTURE OF

CAMP JOHN PAUL JONES

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Notice that the Atlantic Fleet Drill Hall is not built yet.

COOL PICTURE OF

CAMP JOHN PAUL JONES

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THE BRIDGE AND THE COIN

As with all maps, you will need a reference point to understand where you are…

• The reference point for Camp John Paul Jones (JPJ) is this railroad overpass.

• This is the main entrance into Camp JPJ, for both vehicle and pedestrian.

• There are other gates on Camp JPJ, but they are rarely/if ever used. They are basically used only to bring in landscaping and maintenance equipment.

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They will march under this railroad bridge!

When your sailors go to Battle Stations, Small Arms Training, Church

the Navy Exchange, to exercise, Fire Fighting, Medical, Dental, etc…

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This is why the bridge was designed into the

USS Triton – Ship 12 Challenge Coin

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Question: How long did it take to complete the Canadian National railroad overpass?

TRIVIA QUESTION

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Answer: Because the railroad line provides daily freight service to local businesses during the week, the construction of the bridge over the underpass had to be completed over a weekend when there was no rail service.

ANSWER

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TIME TO PLAY “WHERE’S WALDO”…

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“WALDO” SAYS

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God bless the sailors…

May they sleep good

tonight!

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The USS Triton (SS-201)

USS TRITON SS 201

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USS Triton (SS-201), 1940-1943

• The USS Triton SS-201 was a 1475-ton, Tambor Class Submarine

• Laid down, 5 July 1939, at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, ME.

• Launched, 25 March 1940

• Commissioned, USS Triton (SS-201), 15 August 1940

• She served along the East Coast and in the Caribbean for a year, then went to the Pacific, where she was based at Pearl Harbor. During the remaining months of peace, Triton conducted training and in November 1941 was stationed off Wake Island. She was there on 7 December (8 December local time), when Japanese aggression converted her "simulated war patrol" to a real one. While off Wake she made one unsuccessful attack on an enemy ship, using the soon-discredited technique of firing torpedoes while deeply submerged, using sonar bearings for targeting.

• Triton's second and third war patrols, into the East China Sea in January-March and April-June 1942, were much more productive. Her torpedoes sank two Japanese merchantmen in February. Three more were sunk in May, plus three fishing vessels and the submarine I-164. Her fourth combat cruise, which took Triton to the Aleutians in June-August 1942, cost the enemy another ship, the destroyer Nenohi.

USS TRITON (SS 201) HISTORY 1940-1943

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USS Triton (SS-201), 1940-1943 (cont)

• Following a shipyard overhaul, Triton began her fifth war patrol in mid-December 1942. After helping to guide Army bombers on a raid against Wake, she sank two Marus late in the month. The rest of the patrol probably produced damage to several Japanese ships, but also was marked by bad torpedo performance, a problem that plagued the U.S. Navy submarine force for more than a year and a half after the war began. A few weeks after arriving at Brisbane, Australia, in late January1943, Triton was sent to operate against enemy shipping north of the Solomon Islands. She sank one cargo ship in early March and attacked others.

• Triton was reported overdue and from patrol and presumed lost on 10 April 1943.

• Post-war examination of Japanese records revealed that on 15 March 1943, three Japanese destroyers attacked a submarine a little northwest of Triton's assigned area and subsequently observed an oil slick, debris, and items with American markings. The USS Triton, with her entire crew of seventy-three officers and men, was probably sunk by Japanese destroyers off the Admiralty Islands on 15 March 1943.

• Triton received five battle stars for World War II service.

USS TRITON (SS 201) HISTORY 1940-1943

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USS TRITON SSN 586

The USS Triton (SSN-586)

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USS Triton (SS-586), 1959-1969

• USS Triton (SSRN/SSN-586), a United States Navy nuclear-powered radar picket submarine, was the first vessel to execute a submerged circumnavigation of the Earth (Operation Sandblast) in early 1960. Triton accomplished this objective during her shakedown cruise while under the command of Captain Edward L. "Ned" Beach, Jr. The only member of her class, she also had the distinction of being the only non-Soviet submarine powered by two nuclear reactors.

• Triton was the second submarine and the fifth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the Greek god Triton. At the time of her commissioning in 1959, Triton was the largest, most powerful, and most expensive submarine ever built, at $109 million excluding the cost of nuclear fuel and reactors.

• After operating for only two years in her designed role, Triton's role as a radar picket submarine was made obsolete by the introduction of the carrier-based Grumman WF-2 Tracer airborne early warning aircraft. Converted to an attack submarine in 1962, she became the flagship for the Commander Submarine Forces U.S. Atlantic Fleet (COMSUBLANT) in 1964. She was decommissioned in 1969, the first U.S. nuclear submarine to be taken out of service.

• Triton's hull was moored at the St. Julien's Creek Annex of Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia as part of the reserve fleet until 1993, though she was struck from the Naval Vessel Register in 1986. In 1993, she was towed to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard to await the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program. The former Triton landed on the keel resting blocks in the drydock basin on 1 October 2007 to begin this recycling process which was completed effective 30 November 2009.

USS Triton (SSN-586) History: 1959-1969

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The meaning of the blue background: • Background blue represents the Navy ambitions to control the blue water.

THE BLUE BACKGROUND

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The meaning of Honor, Courage, Commitment:

HONOR, COURAGE, COMMITMENT

Throughout its history, the Navy has successfully met all its challenges. America's naval service began during the American Revolution, when on Oct. 13, 1775, the Continental Congress authorized a few small ships. Creating the Continental Navy. Esek Hopkins was appointed commander in chief and 22 officers were commissioned, including John Paul Jones. From those early days of naval service, certain bedrock principles or core values have carried on to today. They consist of three basic principles.

Honor: "I will bear true faith and allegiance ..." Accordingly, we will: Conduct ourselves in the highest ethical manner in all relationships with peers, superiors and subordinates; Be honest and truthful in our dealings with each other, and with those outside the Navy; Be willing to make honest recommendations and accept those of junior personnel; Encourage new ideas and deliver the bad news, even when it is unpopular; Abide by an uncompromising code of integrity, taking responsibility for our actions and keeping our word; Fulfill or exceed our legal and ethical responsibilities in our public and personal lives twenty-four hours a day. Illegal or improper behavior or even the appearance of such behavior will not be tolerated. We are accountable for our professional and personal behavior. We will be mindful of the privilege to serve our fellow Americans.

Courage: "I will support and defend ..." Accordingly, we will have: Courage to meet the demands of our profession and the mission when it is hazardous, demanding, or otherwise difficult; Make decisions in the best interest of the navy and the nation, without regard to personal consequences; Meet these challenges while adhering to a higher standard of personal conduct and decency; Be loyal to our nation, ensuring the resources entrusted to us are used in an honest, careful, and efficient way. Courage is the value that gives us the moral and mental strength to do what is right, even in the face of personal or professional adversity. Commitment: "I will obey the orders ..." Accordingly, we will: Demand respect up and down the chain of command; Care for the safety, professional, personal and spiritual well-being of our people; Show respect toward all people without regard to race, religion, or gender; Treat each individual with human dignity; Be committed to positive change and constant improvement; Exhibit the highest degree of moral character, technical excellence, quality and competence in what we have been trained to do. The day-to-day duty of every Navy man and woman is to work together as a team to improve the quality of our work, our people and ourselves.

These are the CORE VALUES of the United States Navy.

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WHERE DO I BUY THE

CHALLENGE COIN?

We proudly sell the Recruit Training Command (RTC)

coin on Ebay. • We are a start up company, our feedback on Ebay is fresh. Bear with us, as we get larger.

• This coin was developed for a sailor, by a sailor.

• To find us on Ebay, just type in your sailor’s Ship’s Name and the word “coin”:

Example: USS Triton coin