{"id":11129,"url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/11129-boot-camp","short_url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/11129","headline":"Boot Camp","content":"When I was a junior, in high school,\r\nmy friends and I, thought it was cool,\r\nto enlist, get uniforms and serve,\r\nSo we joined the Naval Reserve.\r\nOne meeting a month was all that we\r\nhad to attend, then it was off to sea,\r\nbut I was wrong, wrong as can be,\r\nfor we were going to \"boot camp\" not to sea.\r\nReceiving transportation chits with no \"prattle\"\r\nwe caught a train, going to Seattle.\r\nFrom the core of this wonderful town,\r\nwe boarded a train, Portland OR bound.\r\nArriving in the Rose City, very late in the day,\r\nwe transferred to the Union Pacific, going to L.A.\r\nMy grandfather was working for the N.P.\r\nso using skill, we had a drawing room for three.\r\nOur private room, with a couch and bed.\r\nWhy we even had our own private \"head\".\r\nWe arrived in L.A. and on that great day,\r\nwe boarded a train, Atchison-Topeka and Santa Fe.\r\nWe arrived in San Diego and with great luck,\r\nthe Navy was nice, so we rode in a truck.\r\nBoot Camp was now what we were in,\r\nto make all us young boys, into men.\r\nBut that's another story.","content_plain":"When I was a junior, in high school,\r\nmy friends and I, thought it was cool,\r\nto enlist, get uniforms and serve,\r\nSo we joined the Naval Reserve.\r\nOne meeting a month was all that we\r\nhad to attend, then it was off to sea,\r\nbut I was wrong, wrong as can be,\r\nfor we were going to \"boot camp\" not to sea.\r\nReceiving transportation chits with no \"prattle\"\r\nwe caught a train, going to Seattle.\r\nFrom the core of this wonderful town,\r\nwe boarded a train, Portland OR bound.\r\nArriving in the Rose City, very late in the day,\r\nwe transferred to the Union Pacific, going to L.A.\r\nMy grandfather was working for the N.P.\r\nso using skill, we had a drawing room for three.\r\nOur private room, with a couch and bed.\r\nWhy we even had our own private \"head\".\r\nWe arrived in L.A. and on that great day,\r\nwe boarded a train, Atchison-Topeka and Santa Fe.\r\nWe arrived in San Diego and with great luck,\r\nthe Navy was nice, so we rode in a truck.\r\nBoot Camp was now what we were in,\r\nto make all us young boys, into men.\r\nBut that's another story.","published_at":"2019-08-04T21:47:19-07:00","updated_at":"2022-06-02T15:12:21-07:00","author":{"type":"Person","name":"MFish","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/297670-mfish"},"description":"Stay up-to-date with MFish on Kudos365. View their post published Aug/04/2019 on Other. Browse your favorite topics and share your expertise, too.","type":"post","image":"https://k365pi.imgix.net/site/square-kudos-share-image-300.jpg?fm=jpg\u0026auto=format,compress","likes_count":10,"categories":[{"name":"Other","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/793-other"}],"schema":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"CreativeWork","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/11129-boot-camp","headline":"Boot Camp","image":"https://k365pi.imgix.net/site/square-kudos-share-image-300.jpg?fm=jpg\u0026auto=format,compress","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"MFish","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/297670-mfish"},"datePublished":"2019-08-04T21:47:19-07:00","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/LikeAction","userInteractionCount":10}],"subjectOf":[{"@type":"Thing","name":"Other","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/793-other"}]}}