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GREAT LAKES, Ill. (June 26, 2023) – A Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) midshipman is congratulated by friends and family in Midway Ceremonial Drill Hall at Recruit Training Command (RTC) after their graduation ceremony marking the completion NROTC New Student Indoctrination Cycle 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), Capt. Craig Mattingly, which supports naval accessions training for 98 percent of the Navy’s new officers and enlisted Sailors. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communications Specialist 1st Class Luke McCall)

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Photo by: Mass Communications Specialist 1st Class Luke McCall

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Location: GREAT LAKES, Ill.
 
 
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