GREAT LAKES, Ill. (May 3, 2018) Recruits practice abandoning ship in the USS Indianapolis Combat Training Pool at the Navy’s only boot camp, Recruit Training Command (RTC), July 5. Chief of Naval Personnel (CNP), Vice Adm. Robert P. Burke, visited RTC July 5-6 to review a recruit graduation and see new hands-on training that is developing and testing recruits on their war-fighting skills before they reach the Fleet. RTC is approximately eight weeks and all enlistees into the Navy begin their careers at the command. Training includes physical fitness, firearms, firefighting, shipboard dama
GREAT LAKES, Ill. (May 3, 2018) Recruits practice abandoning ship in the USS Indianapolis Combat Training Pool at the Navy’s only boot camp, Recruit Training Command (RTC), July 5. Chief of Naval Personnel (CNP), Vice Adm. Robert P. Burke, visited RTC July 5-6 to review a recruit graduation and see new hands-on training that is developing and testing recruits on their war-fighting skills before they reach the Fleet. RTC is approximately eight weeks and all enlistees into the Navy begin their careers at the command. Training includes physical fitness, firearms, firefighting, shipboard damage control and line-handling along with lessons in Navy heritage and core values, teamwork and discipline.
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