I was in Navy only two years but it was always  a  part of my 40 years with CSX RR and my 59 year marriage. I have never been able to explain that to myself -why that two years was so important in my life . I think I finally grew up in that short two years and the experience helped to make me who I am today..
Joe Kieffer
Best Friends Boot training was at , United States Training and Distribution Center, Camp Peary ,Williamsburg, Virginia.
â??Picture is of Company 47, March 1946. Sorry I cannot identify anyone in the picture.
â??I remember ; after alighting from the bus that brought us from the train- the DI screaming at us to line up and some other choice words - this county boy thought I had died and gone to hell.
â??At least two midnight cruises, one in a swamp, these were punishment for some unknown reason.
â??The fear of jumping into a swimming pool from a 12/15ft tower into the water and unable to swim.
I now, at 90 remember all those thing fondly. joe Kieffer.
