@mayinmidlife: Randomly remembering the time I landed in Orlando for Navy boot camp and told everybody there was a raging wildfire outside. Y’all. It was humidity. 😂 I was 17, from California, and used to dry air. It was my first time on a plane and my first time really being away from California. I stepped outside, felt that Florida air, and was ready to report a fire before I even got to boot camp. I joined the Navy in 1994 thinking I was about to see the world. Turns out I had plenty to learn before I even left the airport. 😂 What did military service open your mind to? A place, a person, a way of life, or something everybody else seemed to know except you? Tell me your story. #NavyBootCamp #NavyVeteran #MilitaryStories #MilitaryLife #MayInMidLife
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Friday 06 November 2026 11:44:04 GMT
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Lori.G 1971 Gen ❌ :
I was in Orlando K094 1990
2026-11-07 03:22:25
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lokie65 :
Orlando 1984...
2026-11-07 04:14:19
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Petrovich1968 :
RTC Orlando was awesome! We should have kept it. But those Illinois politicians had more pull at the BRAC committee. But Orlando provided the Best climate conditions for training
2026-11-07 02:49:54
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Anti-MAGA :
😂😂😂 I did boot camp in Orlando in June/july. We had red flags for days we weren’t allowed to run because of the heat. Out company commanders ignored them and we ran anyways. It was the best of times lol.
2026-11-06 16:45:50
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Don :
I went in the other direction. First night in boot camp there was a subzero wind blowing in off of Lake Michigan that cut all the way through you but 8 weeks later, at graduation, the heat index was near 100.
Great Lakes Memories...
2026-11-06 13:26:02
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mash3300 :
Orlando 1992 Co I015
2026-11-06 12:13:07
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Laguna Madre Fishing :
Oh wow, you went to Orlando. I was in Orlando, August 92……I-066 company
2026-11-06 13:18:29
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hdtcico :
I went there for basic in 81 from the Chicago in late September and we were get snow flurries, then I walked out of terminal to get in the van to take us RTC and thought I was going to die, I still had my winter coat on and it must have been 80 degrees out side with 80 percent humidity. 😵💫
2026-11-06 13:00:34
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PeePaw :
Orlando October 1984 C008
2026-11-06 13:56:54
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jake :
I think you’re at Disney World not Boot Camp
2026-11-06 14:10:29
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J L :
Orlando October 18,1968, co 010
2026-11-06 13:13:17
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Loving life :
I thought I walked into a free sauna when I went to boot camp in Orlando.
2026-11-06 19:25:37
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thePipersSon :
Orlando ‘90 C030. I went to nuke school there too. So hot and humid.
2026-11-06 15:43:07
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Elbee :
Pittsburgh to Orlando USN boot camp 1994. Shock of shocks. Then off to school in Great Lakes where snow was still knee high. Like what had I done lol
2026-11-07 03:04:18
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Julian :
Sounds about right. Only went there for NAVET training when I came back into the Navy in 1990. (Old timer here) Also met my future wife there. They sent me to Great Lakes Illinois for Boot Camp back in 1982, started August 15, and it was also humid, mid-west humid, by the time we graduated though in October, it was freezing cold, and that wind would blow right off of Lake Michigan, I tell you that was something else.
2026-11-06 17:10:31
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Michael McCord♍️ :
Me too now
2026-11-06 13:34:26
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kim Montague :
I was pretty much drunk by the time we landed in Orlando🤪. 11/11/1977
2026-11-06 19:09:56
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Val :
Happy birthday 🇺🇸😘📷⚓️🎂
2026-11-06 13:25:38
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Terry Cosby :
😁lol😍💕
2026-11-06 19:12:03
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TheZoo :
Aug 01, 1988 Great Lakes, hotter than the devils ass and then on to MM A school and here comes winter. Coming from Miami , Fl, what a change .
2026-11-06 18:24:36
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L :
Great Lakes… blizzard of 2014/2015.. hip deep snow. Several broken backs/legs/arm from slipping on ice.. would build snow up all around the smoke pits to make igloos to block the -20° air out. The buildings would freeze 2-3 INSIDE the building.. water in your eyes and nose would freeze
2026-11-06 18:34:37
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Mikeaul :
Ewww Orlando bootcamp. Real squids are from Great Lakes 👍🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
2026-11-06 12:47:51
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marine7009 :
🔥💪🔥💪🔥
2026-11-06 12:32:49
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GMoney :
🤣🤣🤣
2026-11-06 13:31:30
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Bigern1234 :
😂😂😂
2026-11-06 13:38:53
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