190719 NROTC NSI MIDSHIPMAN CANDIDATES OBSERVE RTC PIR [Image 9 of 16]

GREAT LAKES, ILLINOIS, UNITED STATES

07.19.2018

Photo by Scott Thornbloom 

Naval Service Training Command     

190719-N-IK959-1580 GREAT LAKES, Ill., (July 19, 2019) – Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) midshipman candidates, midshipman and staff members attend a Pass-In-Review recruit graduation of new enlisted Sailors in the Midway Ceremonial Drill Hall at Recruit Training Command (RTC). The candidates are part of the three-week New Student Indoctrination (NSI). The young men and women from across the country will be entering their freshman year of the NROTC program at universities nationwide this fall. The indoctrination program, hosted at RTC, the U. S. Navy’s only boot camp, provides standardized entry-level militarization and prepares midshipmen with a common training orientation. They are led by Navy-option 1st class and Marine-option 2nd class midshipmen, instructors and staff from NROTC units throughout the United States. The staff is overseeing and instructing the midshipmen candidates with assistance from the Recruit Division Commanders and instructors assigned to RTC as well as active duty Marine Corps Drill Instructors. NSI provides basic training in five warfighting fundamentals – Fire Fighting, Damage Control, Seamanship, Watchstanding and Small Arms Handling and Marksmanship -- to begin creating basically trained, smartly disciplined, tough and courageous future Navy and Marine Corps Officers. The new enlisted Sailors may be the Sailors the Navy-option midshipmen candidates and midshipman instructors will lead someday after they are commissioned and join the fleet. (U. S. Navy photo by Scott A. Thornbloom/Released)

• Date Taken: 07.19.2018
• Date Posted: 07.20.2019 19:36
• Photo ID: 5598096
• VIRIN: 190719-N-IK959-1580
• Resolution: 2100x824
• Size: 428.24 KB
• Location: GREAT LAKES, ILLINOIS, US