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Show Springville man joins U.S. Navy Seaman Recruit Kern P. Boyer, UiSN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Boyer of 234 West 700 South, Springville, has begun nine weeks of Navy basic training at the US Naval Training Center, San Diego, California. In the first weeks of his naval na-val service he will study military mili-tary subjects and live and work under conditions similar to those he will encounter on his first ship or at his first shore station. In making the transition from civilian to sailor he will be taught and supervsed by experienced ex-perienced Navy petty officers. They will teach him the basic skills of seamanship as well as survival techniques, military drill and other basic subjects. On .completion of his recruit training he will be assigned to a school, shore station or ship, according to the results of his Navy classification tests, his own desires and the needs of the Navy. |