13 May 2021 RTC Recruits, Staff Exhibit Resiliency During Training in Pandemic 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...
05 May 2021 Recruit Training Command Holds Change of Command Ceremony GREAT LAKES, Ill. - Recruit Training Command (RTC) held a change-of-command ceremony onboard Naval Station Great Lakes on May 5...
04 May 2021 Naval Station Great Lakes returns to HPCON Bravo Plus GREAT LAKES, Ill. – Naval Station Great Lakes returned to Health Protection Condition Level (HPCON) Bravo Plus on May 1 after meeting Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) conditions-based guidance for the changing of HPCON...
01 April 2021 Recruit Training Command Chiefs Celebrate 128 Years 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...
05 October 2020 Recruit Training Command Creates Navy’s First Training Command Embedded Mental Health Program Navy's Recruit Training Command creates an Embedded Mental Health program (EMHP) to provide mental health care to staff...
11 September 2020 Sailor First, Sailor Always: Multiple Commands Unite to Support Making Sailors 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...