Chapter 4 THE FANTAIL (BACK) Rev: JFK 1.0 USS John F. Kennedy Ship-9 The Meaning of the Recruit Training Command (RTC) Great Lakes Challenge Coin 34
THE BLUE BACKGROUND The meaning of the blue background: Background blue represents the Navy ambitions to control the blue water. 35
HONOR, COURAGE, COMMITMENT The meaning of 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. 36
THE REST OF THE STORY (The Long Version) USS John F. Kennedy Ship-9 @ RTC The USS John F. Kennedy (Ship-9) was commissioned April 2005 She was the 8 th ship (barracks) to be build at RTC Great Lakes. This barracks is named for the 35 th President of the United States and the conventionally-powered aircraft carrier (CV-67) named in his honor. 37
THE USS JOHN F. KENNEDY SHIP 9 @ RTC USS John F. Kennedy Ship-9 Quarterdeck (main entrance) 38
THE USS TRITON SHIP 12 @ RTC Actual pictures of the buildings (ships) at RTC are rare! We will show the USS Triton building to give you an idea of what the USS John F. Kennedy looks like. All the ships were contracted at the same time, so they all look exactly the same. 39
THE USS TRITON SHIP 12 @ RTC USS Triton Ship 12 side view. Recruits in groups of more than 8 will enter here. In group less, the recruits will enter through the quarterdeck (main entrance). USS Triton Ship 12 corner view The JFK would look exactly like this. 40
WHERE IS THE USS JOHN F. KENNEDY SHIP 12? So where exactly is the USS John F. Kenney Ship-9 at Great Lakes? 41
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 42
CAMP MOFFETT, PORTER, & JOHN PAUL JONES The Canadian National railroad tracks separates Camp Porter from Camp John Paul Jones Camp John Paul Jones 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. Camp Moffett Camp Porter BEQ = Bachelor Enlisted Quarters ie the Ship (Barracks) Keep on this road to go to the main Navy base NTC Great Lakes. 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. 43
RTC Great Lakes ~ Ships Atlantic Fleet Drill Hall USS Constitution Ship 6 USS Theodore Roosevelt Ship 5 USS Arleign Burke Ship 4 USS Triton Ship 12 USS Kearsarge Ship 11 USS Enterprise Ship 10 USS Marvin Shields Ship 13 USS John F. Kennedy Ship 9 USS Chicago Ship 7 USS Arizona Ship 14 Parking lot (After PIR dropoff) Chapel Photo Lab USS MASON Ship 17 for Navet/Osvet In processing Barracks Medical/Dental NEX Recruit In-processing (Where Hell Begins) Golden 13 Combat Training Pool USS Chief & Gas Chamber Uniform Issue/Tailor Pacific Fleet Drill Hall USS Hopper Ship 3 Courtesy of www.navydep.com USS Marlinspike Medical USS Freedom Hall Reuben James PFA Ship 2 Dental Small Arm (SAM-T) USS Iowa / Battle Stations 21 Visitor Control Center (VIP) Graduation (PIR) Entrance Midway Ceremonial Drill Hall (Graduation) Buckley Road (IL-137) USS Pearl Harbor Ship 1 In processing Barracks Lake Front Hwy/ Amstutz Expy 44
Triton LAYOUT OF CAMP JOHN PAUL JONES Kearsarge J.F. Kennedy Chicago Enterprise Atlantic Fleet Drill Hall Marvin Shields Arizona Main entrance to Camp John Paul Jones Canadian National railroad tracks 45
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) (1 st Floor) & Training rooms (2 nd floor) 6 - Main point of entry into Camp John Paul Jones (Railroad underpass) 7 Canadian National railroad tracks 3 5 5 1 2 3 4 4 6 7 46
COOL PICTURE OF CAMP JOHN PAUL JONES Notice that the Atlantic Fleet Drill Hall & USS Chicago (ship 7) are not built yet. 47
COOL PICTURE OF CAMP JOHN PAUL JONES Notice that the Atlantic Fleet Drill Hall is not built yet. 48
THE BRIDGE AND THE COIN The Challenge coin design 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. 49
When your sailors go to Battle Stations, Small Arms Training, Church the Navy Exchange, to exercise, Fire Fighting, Medical, Dental, etc They will march under this railroad bridge! 50
The Challenge coin design This is why the bridge was designed into the USS John F. Kennedy Ship 9 Challenge Coin 51
TRIVIA QUESTION Question: How long did it take to complete the Canadian National railroad overpass? 52
ANSWER 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. 53
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JOHN F. KENNEDY HISTORY 1940-1943 The Challenge coin design John Kennedy quick history: "Joe" Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr. (1888-1969) and Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald (1890-1995) had 9 children, John F. Kennedy was the 2nd of those 9 children. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant in the United States Navy. He was the 2 nd of 4 brothers to serve in the Military. (Joe, John, Robert, Teddy) He was in command of the Navy ship PT-109. His ship was on patrol looking for an enemy ship to sink. The Japanese enemy destroyer Amagiri which was traveling at 40 knots, had no idea that PT-109 was straight ahead. The large destroyer cut the small PT boat in half. It sank in ten seconds. The Japanese destroyer had not realized that their ship had even struck an enemy vessel. He was the 35 th President of the United States. He was the youngest elected President at the age of 43 He is the only Catholic president. He is the only president to win a Pulitzer Prize. He was one of 6 president to be a Navy veteran. (Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, G.H. Bush) 56
JOHN F. KENNEDY FAMILY HISTORY Joseph P. Kennedy, seated center, the head of the United States Maritime Commission and former chairman of the SEC, with his wife Mrs Rose. Kennedy and their children at their home in Bronxville, N.Y. in 1937. Seated left to right, are Eunice, Jean, Edward, Mr. Kennedy, Patricia and Kathleen. Standing are Rosemary, Robert, John F., Mrs. Kennedy and Joseph, Jr. 57
JOHN F. KENNEDY FAMILY HISTORY Time to talk about the Kennedy family Navy history: Let s first discuss the 9 children. Since women normally didn t serve in the military in that era, we will only discuss the four boys, Joe (child #1), Jack (child #2), Robert (child #7), Ted (child #9) 1. "Joe" Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Jr. (1915 1944). Known as "Joe, Jr." He had been expected to become the family's political standardbearer. Died during World War II when taking part in Operation Aphrodite as a pilot of a modified B-24 Liberator drone bomber which accidentally exploded and crashed over Blyth Estuary in Suffolk, England. For this act, he was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross. His body was never recovered (it was vaporized). 2. "Jack" John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Sr. (1917 1963). Known to his family as "Jack" and sometimes referred to as "JFK", he was a U.S. Representative (1947 1953), a U.S. Senator (1953 1960) and the 35th U.S. President (1961 1963). In 1953, he married "Jacky" Jacqueline Lee Bouvier (1929 1994) and they had three children, one died soon after birth, and two survived to adulthood. He was assassinated on November 22, 1963 while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dallas, Texas. 3. "Rosie" "Rosemary" Rose Marie Kennedy (1918 2005). Known as "Rosemary" or "Rosie", she was rendered incapable of intelligible speech or caring for herself by a prefrontal lobotomy at age 23 a new neurosurgical technique of the time and requested by her father that was intended to cure her increasing mood swings and make her more manageable. The operation instead reduced her to an infantile state. From 1949, she lived in a residential-care facility in Jefferson, Wisconsin, until her death. 4. "Kick" Kathleen Agnes Kennedy (1920 1948). Known as "Kick", in 1944 she married a Protestant, William John Robert Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington (1917 1944) the son and heir to the Duke of Devonshire over her mother's strenuous religious objections. After being widowed when her husband was killed in action during World War II, she was killed in an airplane crash in France along with her alleged lover, William Henry Lawrence Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam (1910 1948). 58
JOHN F. KENNEDY FAMILY HISTORY (cont) 5. Eunice Mary Kennedy (1921 2009). She was a co-founder of the Special Olympics in 1968, an organization she began in honor of her sister Rosemary. In 1953, she married Robert Sargent Shriver II (1915 2011), who was later the U.S. Ambassador to France in the late 1960s-early 1970s and a 1972 vice-presidential candidate; they had five children. 6. "Pat" Patricia Kennedy (1924 2006). Married actor Peter Sydney Ernest Lawford (1923 1984) in 1954. They had four children and divorced in 1966. 7. "Bobby" "Bob" Robert Francis Kennedy (1925 1968). Known as "Bob" or "Bobby" and sometimes referred to as "RFK", he was U.S. Attorney General (1961 1964) in his brother John's administration and later served as the junior U.S. Senator from New York (1965-his death). In 1950, he married Ethel Skakel (b. 1928) and they had 11 children. He was assassinated in Los Angeles, California during his 1968 campaign for U.S. president. 8. Jean Ann Kennedy (b. 1928). In 1956, she married Stephen Edward Smith, Sr. (1927 1990) and they had two sons and adopted two daughters. She later served as the U.S. Ambassador to Ireland (1993 1998). 9. "Ted" Edward Moore Kennedy (1932 2009). Known as "Teddy" or "Ted", he served as a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (1962 2009). In 1958, he married Virginia Joan Bennett (b. 1936) and they had three children; they divorced in 1981. In 1992, he married Vicki Victoria married Anne Reggie (b. 1954) and had two stepchildren from this marriage. On May 20, 2008, it was announced that he had a malignant brain tumor. In the next year, brain cancer severely limited his U.S. Senate appearances. He died on August 25, 2009 59
THE TWO BROTHERS JOHN & JOE KENNEDY The brothers Lieutenant John F. Kennedy and Lieutenant Joe P Kennedy Commissioned officers in the United States Navy 60
JOSEPH P. (JOE) KENNEDY CHILD #1 Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy, Jr. Lieutenant, U.S. Navy (July 25, 1915 August 12, 1944) Being the oldest Joe was the patriarch of the family. He earned his wings as a Naval Aviator in May 1942 and was sent to Britain in September 1943. He volunteered for a Top Secret mission called Operation Aphrodite. Much like the kamikaze of Japan, the United States developed "Operation Aphrodite". The operation used explosive laden Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator bombers, that were deliberately crashed into their Nazi Germany targets under radio control once the pilots bailed out. Pilots were needed because the aircraft could not take off safely using remote control. A crew of two would take off and fly to 2,000 feet (610 m) before activating the remote control system, arming the detonators, then the pilots would parachuting from the aircraft to safety. Ten minutes before the planned pilot bailout, the explosive detonated prematurely and destroyed the Liberator, vaporizing Lieutenant Joe Kennedy. The wreckage landed near the village of Blythburgh in Suffolk, England. In 1946, the Navy named a destroyer for Joe Kennedy, the USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (DD-850), aboard which his younger brother (future U.S. Senator) Robert F. Kennedy briefly served. Among the highlights of its service are the blockade of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and the afloat recovery teams for Gemini 6 and Gemini 7, both 1965 manned spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program. It is now a floating museum in Battleship Cove, Fall River, Massachusetts. As you can see, the 1 st United States Navy ship named after a Joe Kennedy, DD-850. 61
JOHN F. (JACK) KENNEDY CHILD #2 John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy Lieutenant, U.S. Navy (May 29, 1917 November 22, 1963) Often referred to by his initials JFK, John was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in Dallas Texas in 1963. He was the youngest elected President at the age of 43, the only Catholic president, and the only president to win a Pulitzer Prize. In June 1938 John Kennedy sailed overseas with brother Joe to work with their father, who was then Franklin D. Roosevelt's U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, at the American embassy in London. In 1939 Kennedy toured Europe, the Soviet Union, the Balkans, and the Middle East in preparation for his Harvard senior honors thesis. He then went to Czechoslovakia and Germany before returning to London on September 1, 1939, the day Germany invaded Poland. On September 3, 1939, the family was in the House of Commons for speeches endorsing the United Kingdom's declaration of war on Germany. John Kennedy was sent as his father's representative to help with arrangements for American survivors of the SS Athenia, before flying back to the U.S. As an upperclassman at Harvard, Kennedy became a more serious student and developed an interest in political philosophy. In his junior year he made the Dean's List. In 1940 Kennedy completed his thesis, "Appeasement in Munich", about British participation in the Munich Agreement. The thesis became a bestseller under the title Why England Slept. 62
PT-109 He graduated from Harvard College with a Bachelors of Science cum laude in international affairs in 1940. Kennedy enrolled and audited classes at the Stanford Graduate School of Business that fall. In early 1941, he helped his father write a memoir of his three years as an American ambassador and then traveled throughout South America. He graduated from Harvard College with a Bachelors of Science cum laude in international affairs in 1940. Kennedy enrolled and audited classes at the Stanford Graduate School of Business that fall. In early 1941, he helped his father write a memoir of his three years as an American ambassador and then traveled throughout South America. In September 1941, after medical disqualification by the Army for his chronic lower back problems, John Kennedy joined the U.S. Navy, with the influence of the director of the Office of Naval Intelligence, former naval attaché to Joseph Kennedy. Kennedy was an ensign serving in the office of the Secretary of the Navy when the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred. He attended the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps and Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Training Center, was assigned duty in Panama and later in the Pacific theater, where he earned the rank of lieutenant, commanding the patrol torpedo PT-109 boat. 63
PT-109 Lt. Kennedy had a crew of twelve men whose mission was to stop Japanese ships from delivering supplies to their soldiers. On the night of August 2, 1943, Lt. Kennedy s crew patrolled the waters looking for enemy ships to sink. A Japanese destroyer suddenly became visible. But it was traveling at full speed and headed straight at them. Holding the wheel, Lt. Kennedy tried to swerve out of the way, but to no avail. The much larger Japanese warship rammed the PT-109, splitting it in half and killing two of Lt. Kennedy s men. The others managed to jump off as their boat went up in flames. Lt. Kennedy was slammed hard against the cockpit, once again injuring his weak back. Patrick McMahon, one of his crew members, had horrible burns on his face and hands and was ready to give up. In the darkness, Lt. Kennedy managed to find McMahon and haul him back to where the other survivors were clinging to a piece of the boat that was still afloat. At sunrise, Lt. Kennedy led his men toward a small island several miles away. Despite his own injuries, Lt. Kennedy was able to tow Patrick McMahon ashore, a strap from McMahon s life jacket clenched between his teeth. Six days later two native islanders found them and went for help, delivering a message John had carved into a piece of coconut shell that read "11 alive native knows posit & reef Nauru Island Kennedy." He purportedly handed the coconut to one of the natives and said, "Rendova, Rendova!," indicating that the coconut should be taken to the PT base on Rendova. The next day, the PT-109 crew was rescued. 64