GREAT LAKES, Ill. – Rear Adm. Jennifer S. Couture relieved Rear Adm. Milton J. Sands III as commander of Naval Service Training Command (NSTC), Thursday, May 27, in a change of command ceremony held at the Navy’s only boot camp, Recruit Training Command (RTC) on Naval Station Great Lakes...

During congressional testimony before the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. John Nowell thanked Army leadership at Fort McCoy for successfully fulfilling an agreement made in early 2020 to allow Navy recruits to conduct their 14-day COVID-19 waiting...

The Seaman-To-Admiral (STA-21) commissioning program, which provides an opportunity for qualified Sailors to receive college educations and U. S. Navy commissions, is soliciting applications for fiscal year 2022, as announced in NAVADMIN 094/21...

Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO) Adm. Bill Lescher spoke with Sailors and leadership at Navy Personnel and Navy Recruiting Commands in Millington, Tenn., and Navy Service Training and Recruit Training Commands in Great Lakes, Ill., 17 May...

More than 50,000 recruits have trained at Recruit Training Command (RTC), the Navy’s only boot camp, since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic...

WASHINGTON - The call for Seaman to Admiral–21 (STA–21) program is out. Initial applications must be postmarked on or before July 1. The board is scheduled to meet in September. Here's what you need to know...

GREAT LAKES, Ill. - Recruit Training Command (RTC) held a change-of-command ceremony onboard Naval Station Great Lakes on May 5...

GREAT LAKES, Ill. - Recruit Training Command’s (RTC) chief petty officers (CPO) gathered at various locations around RTC April 1, to celebrate the 128th CPO birthday...

Chief of Naval Personnel has re-dedicated the nearly 20,000 MyNavy HR personnel to the task of making sure the fleet has enough sailors to meet its missions, stating that his first strategic goal in 2021 is to "Build a Navy that Can Fight and Win." ...

Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. John B. Nowell Jr. released NAVADMIN 308/20 Nov. 23 which announced the 55 Sailors selected for the fiscal year 2021 Seaman to Admiral-21 (STA-21) commissioning program...

NEWPORT, R.I. - A 2011 Kellenberg Memorial High School graduate and Massapequa, New York native is currently serving with the U.S. Navy as a class officer and navigation curriculum manager at Officer Training Command Newport (OTCN)...

Navy Junior ROTC and Navy National Defense Cadet Corps units are facing new “normals” as they returned to school this fall. More than 80,000 cadets and more than 1,000 Naval Science Instructors have had to adapt to the new challenges in a continuing COVID-19 environment...

A former enlisted SEAL puts on an admiral’s star -- realizing the late Adm. Mike Boorda's dream for Sailors...

Navy's Recruit Training Command creates an Embedded Mental Health program (EMHP) to provide mental health care to staff...

Every enlisted Sailor’s training starts at one place: Recruit Training Command (RTC), but with the arrival of the coronavirus in March, so came a new normal. RTC implemented a 14-day restriction of movement (ROM) for future Sailors at off-site locations to help reduce the risk of bringing the...

WASHINGTON -- The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has signed a memorandum of agreement with the U.S. Navy to establish a Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) unit at the University on the island of Oahu, which will begin training students in the fall of 2021...

Now more than ever, individuals, teams and organizations are discovering the invaluable role of individual and team resilience, especially with the additional stress created by the coronavirus crisis over the past several months...

GREAT LAKES, Ill. (August 11, 2020) – In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Recruit Training Command (RTC) at Naval Station Great Lakes, the U.S. Navy’s only boot camp, has added millions of dollars of safety precautions for America’s newest Sailors as they train to enter the fleet...

In August 2019, Princeton ROTC student MIDN 1/C Kara Dowling visited the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) to conduct research with members of the university's Operations Research (OR) department for her senior year capstone project...

The annual call for applications to the 2021 Seaman to Admiral program, known as STA-21, is on the streets. This year's board will meet in mid-September...

Around the country more than 1,400 Naval ROTC (NROTC) midshipmen, officer candidates and Marine Enlisted Commissioning Education Program (MECEP) Marines have just, or are about to commission as U. S. Navy Ensigns and U.S. Marine Corps Second Lieutenants...

Officer Training Command Newport (OTCN) is using online training to develop future Navy leaders during the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic...

Adm. James G. Foggo III, commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa (CNE-CNA), and CNE-CNA Fleet Master Chief Derrick “Wally” Walters spoke with Midshipmen at the University of Southern California (USC) and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) over a video chat, April 23...

The U.S. Naval Academy has announced the cancellation of all Commissioning Week 2020 public events due to the coronavirus pandemic...

Zion-Benton Township High School's Navy Junior ROTC (NJROTC) unit finished first in a dominating performance at the 2020 NJROTC Area 3 West Regional Academic, Athletic and Drill Competition at Recruit Training Command (RTC) here, Feb. 29...