With sailors from Training Group 52 formally graduating from boot camp, the service reached a milestone of 42,000 sailors ...

With the graduation of Training Group 52, more than 42,000 Sailors completed initial training during Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25), ...

A recruit division marches in formation at Recruit Training Command on March 22, 2024. (MC2 Christopher O’Grady/U.S. Navy) The Navy is cutting its Basic Military Training program from 10 weeks to nine ...

You’re tuning in for part one of this two-part special on Navy boot camp. I am joined by fellow Military.com reporter Konstantin Toropin. He’s also a Navy veteran who went through boot camp here at ...

The Navy is cutting seven days out of its Basic Military Training program, from 10 weeks to nine, as improved recruiting numbers mean the sea service needs to push more sailors through boot camp at ...

The first 15 recruits were awarded the new Recruit Honor Graduate Ribbon during their Pass-In-Review (PIR) rehearsal in the Midway Ceremonial Drill Hall at Recruit Training Command (RTC), Aug. 20. The ...

GREAT LAKES, Ill. — Petty Officer 1st Class John Suits, a native of New Palestine, is stationed at the Naval Station Great Lakes, Ill., a boot camp to train sailors with the U.S. Navy. Suits, a 2003 ...

GREAT LAKES, Ill. | A century after it opened, Great Lakes Naval Station, which houses Recruit Training Command, was rededicated early this month at a ceremony during a basic training graduation.

In the summer of 2016, the atmosphere in the drill hall at Navy Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Illinois, was charged with pride and anticipation. Among the sea of uniformed sailors and their ...