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In five pages this book report discusses how boot camp today is as opposed to how it was in 1941, how today’s sailors still encounter prostitution and bars just like they did on liberty in the 1940s, and compares and contrasts the similarities and differences between World War II and the War in Iraq. There are no additional sources listed in the bibliography.
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of adventure and leaving the economic ravages of the Great Depression behind, his rite of passage into manhood would take place during one of the most dramatic moments in world
history. While aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, American naval installations at Pearl Harbor were bombed on December 7, 1941, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt officially declared war against the Empire
of Japan the very next day. Kernan would see Uncle Sams involvement in Second World War from beginning to end, live to tell about it and more importantly, to
write about it. His memoir, Crossing the Line: A Bluejackets World War II Odyssey, is a deeply personal recounting of a young sailors rude initiation into Navy life and
illustrates how those seemingly endless drills and adherence to protocol could be applied successfully in active combat. It is a story that only someone who had actually lived through
such a momentous experience could tell. In 1940 and 1941, recruit training - more commonly referred to as boot camp - was a grueling session that lasted anywhere from four
to six weeks and for mountain regional and West Coast recruits like Kernan, was conducted at the U.S. Naval Training Station in San Diego, California. For a young farm
boy, the transition was nothing short of culture shock. The boot camp of 1941 was designed "to put your individuality in storage" and learn how to think and work
together as a single unit (Kernan 12). Kernan recalled that most of this boot camp was conducted on a "blacktop grinder" of the drill field (8). He wrote,
"We would spend most of the next few months learning the naval axiom that military duties take precedence over trade skills by marching as a company, under arms, back and
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