Photoessays Biography Credits	Navy Recruits
	Location: San Francisco, CA Date: May 9, 1940 Agency: NYA Credits: Rondal Partridge (Photographer) Source: NARA (SPB) Accession Number: 119-CAL-4-212 Enlarged Image
	6 of 7 San Francisco, California, May 9, 1940, One of the solutions to getting tired of hanging around. A group of selected navy recruits receiving last instructions before they actually sign up for enrollment. Interviewed, all of them gave us their reason for enlistment the desire to learn a trade. Most of these boys come from a rural areas; on third of them had discharge papers from the CCC.