I cannot imagine what today's boot might be like. I went, spring of '68 arrived about 26-28 May. I've read, or maybe YouTube that modern sailors get a fair amount of small arms hands on range training. I got nothing but part of a day, firing an M1 Garand, prone only, at Camp Elliott, San diego. Ironically, a couple years later, I would spend 4 years at NAS Miramar, right across hiway 15 from there.