Joseph A. Glockner, CTTCS USN Retired, 1962-1983 After following this thread since the beginning, I am truely amazed at how much each of us have in common - talking about starting out as a CT !! For myself, I quit High School 3 wks before graduation and enlisted in May 62. I was born and raised in southern California, and went to boot camp at San Diego.. On classification day, the guy keyed in on my Admin and Morse scores from the battery of tests. I had wanted to be a Radioman - but, he said that he saw the CT rating as the way for me to go.. He couldn't tell me anything about the rating, so, I asked him where the school was -- Pensacola, FL!! Heck - that did it right there! I wanted to get out of California!!! Looking back on my career with the SecGru - it was the very best time of my life. Joe Glockner CTTCS (62-83)