School Command The Service School Command was organized to train selected personnel who had completed "recruit" basic training and demonstrated an aptitude for a skill during initial recruit testing. The command had a capacity of providing specialty training to 4,000 sailors at a time. These personnel were assigned to training in gunnery, fire control, radio, telemetry, and other technical subjects. The training center was also the home to the Naval Hospital Corps school. The Naval Academy Preparatory School was a component of the Service School Command and was chartered to train enlisted personnel for acceptance into the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. The school also trained sailors and marines in necessary academic skills required for admission to colleges and universities under the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps. Naval Hospital The naval hospital was established as a 500-bed hospital to care for the center's operating staff, recruits, students, and dependents, with provision to increase capacity to 1,000 beds or more. Some care was provided by the roughly 1,200 students studying to become Hospital Corpsmen at the Hospital Corps School. Bainbridge Commodores Bainbridge Commodores football team had many notable players, such as Al Vandeweghe and Joe Davis. The 1943 team and the 1944 team had full seasons playing against other military service teams. Famous people who served at the USNTC Al Cartwright, sportswriter Charlie "Choo Choo" Justice, football player at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Admiral Frank B. Kelso II (1933–2013), who later became Chief of Naval Operations, commanded the U.S. Naval Nuclear Power School at the U.S. Naval Training Center Bainbridge from 1969 to 1971. Paul Pierce, who later became head football coach at Sul Ross State University and Sam Houston State University Bill Cosby, actor and comedian. See also Commodores football Naval Station Great Lakes References External links USNTC Bainbridge Association Naval Training Center Bainbridge – Current Site Information Bainbridge Residential Phase 1A Property (Voluntary Cleanup Program), Maryland Department of the Environment. December 2011 Training installations of the United States Navy Buildings and structures in Cecil County, Maryland 1942 establishments in Maryland 1976 disestablishments in Maryland Military installations closed in 1976 Closed installations of the United States Navy