The University of Notre Dame Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) hosted its 30th Annual Naval Leadership Weekend (NLW) from January 31 to February 1, 2025, bringing together hundreds of midshipmen from across the country for a weekend of transformative leadership development...

Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps and National Defense Cadet Corps cadets, representing 24 units from 12 states nationwide, converged at Naval Air Station Pensacola for the 2024 NJROTC National Championship, April 5-6...

Naval Service Training Command (NSTC) hosted the 2024 Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Tri-Service Senior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) conference in San Diego, March 5-7. The event included senior leaders of Navy and Marine Corps Army, and Air Force ROTC leadership, providing a...

The University of Colorado Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) hosted the 29th annual Colorado Drill Meet, March 7-9...

A 2013 Lakewood High School graduate and Everett, Washington native currently serves in the U.S. Navy as technical trainer at Officer Training Command in Newport, Rhode Island (OTCN), charged with training the Navy’s current and future leaders...

GREAT LAKES, Ill. – Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) midshipmen from across the United States completed their New Student Indoctrination (NSI) in two four-week cycles at Recruit Training Command (RTC), May 28 – July 22...

As Emilio Cendejas sat with his 85 fellow graduating Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (NJROTC) cadet classmates June 12, 2021, he thought of the past and the future...

Officer Training Command Newport (OTCN) announced Heather Yeles as the 2020 Civilian of the Year (COY) on June 14 at an all-hands ceremony from the Marine Detachment Auditorium on Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island...

Rear Adm. Jennifer Couture, Commander, Naval Service Training Command (NSTC) met with midshipmen aboard the Damage Control Wet Trainer, also known as the “USS Buttercup” wet trainer, during Sea Trials at Officer Training Command Newport (OTCN), June 24...

Rear Adm. Jennifer Couture, commander, Naval Service Training Command (NSTC), visited Officer Training Command Newport (OTCN) for the first time as NSTC Commander, June 23-25...

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...