Great Lakes Training Center has been there a while, my dad started there in 1932. Became a Machinists Mate 1st class, USS Nevada.
I believe it was '52 when as an engineer at the Terminal Island Navy yard, SoCal, his job was to prep the USS Nevada for the Hydrogen bomb test, Bikini. Broke his heart, loved that old boat, attended most of the Western states reunions.
Came back from the South Pacific, buttons poping off his shirt. "The Japanese couldn't sink her at Pearl and the mighty H bomb couldn't do it either."
She was the "target ship" in the center of dozens of galant fighting ships, painted bright orange. I got a tour just before she set sail, one last voyage, to her funeral.
Mushroom cloud and billions of gallons of sea water cleared and there she was, staunchly still afloat. Navy spent some hours shelling her to send her down. Too contaminated to do anything else. She must have wondered what she'd done wrong.
Relating that to his kids caused a break in his voice and glisten of the eye but chin firm with great pride. His two brothers served with him on the Nevada, some solemn nodding with downcast eyes as he relayed the details to them.
Bob