After graduation from Government Island, Alameda, Brian was sent to Electrical A school in Gloucester City Connecticut.
Brian arrived in New Jersey on the red eye flight from Los Angeles after having 1 month leave.
"I took a bus at 0430 to Groton Connecticut, which was also the location of the US submarine base. Then I took a taxi to the training center located on the mouth of Thames River which separates
"The training center had previously been built as a boys school. It had one large 2 story barracks around a center quad space, with a large administration building and other support building. It covered about 10 acres of land."During that 6 months I covered various electronic, radio, and radar operations. During the training period, testing was performed in the month before training was completed. All the trainees grades were looked at, and good grades were rewarded by getting the highest pick of assignments.
"While I was stationed in Groton, I went into New York City. I went up to the top of the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty. I stayed the night with the Italian family of one of the guys at the training station. They were extremely nice and fed me.
"There was also a bowling alley in one of the auxiliary buildings. It only had 2 lanes. Because the pin setting machine was manual, someone volunteered as the pin spotter to set the pins while 2 others where bowling. As the pins were knocked down, the pin setter would set them in the "holding" part of the mechanism until they were ready to be set. When the machine operator pushed a button, the mechanism would set it up for the next bowler."
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