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New Student Indoctrination (NSI) Cycle 3 - Small Arms Training

220801-N-IK959-3236 GREAT LAKES, Ill. (August 01, 2022) Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) New Student Indoctrination (NSI) midshipman candidates learn how to verify their Berretta 9mm weapons are clear during a small arms training event at Recruit Training Command (RTC), August 1. Upon completion of NSI, the candidates will start their freshman year of the NROTC program at colleges and universities nationwide this fall. NSI is an indoctrination program hosted at RTC, and provides midshipmen with a common military training orientation. NSI provides basic training in five warfighting fundamentals – firefighting, damage control, seamanship, watchstanding and small arms handling and marksmanship – to begin creating basically trained and smartly disciplined future Navy and Marine Corps officers. NROTC is overseen by Commander, Naval Service Training Command (NSTC), Rear Adm. Jennifer S. Couture, which supports naval accessions training for 98 percent of the Navy’s new officers and enlisted Sailors. (U.S. Navy photo by Scott A. Thornbloom)

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Photo by: Scott A. Thornbloom

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Location: RTC, Naval Station Great Lakes
 
 
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