Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recruit division commanders, known as RDCs, are the drill sergeants of the United States Navy. Before they train Navy recruits at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Navy's boot camp at Great Lakes, Illinois, says it will start letting recruits have some access to cell phones while they are ...

A recruit division marches in formation at Recruit Training Command on March 22, 2024. (MC2 Christopher O’Grady/U.S. Navy) The Navy is cutting its Basic Military Training program from 10 weeks to nine ...

Rear Adm. Kavon Hakimzadeh, Commander, Carrier Strike Group 2 (CSG-2) visits USS Trayer at Recruit Training Command (RTC). (John Suits/U.S. Navy) The Navy says that, starting next month, it will ...

WASHINGTON — The Navy will meet its goal to sign up 40,600 recruits by the end of September thanks to several new recruiting programs, but the crush of last-minute enlistments means it won’t be able ...

The Navy will meet its goal to sign up 40,600 recruits by the end of September, but it will miss its target to get sailors through boot camp. (Patrick Semansky/AP) The Navy will meet its goal to sign ...

The Navy’s record-breaking recruiting numbers translated to the service’s highest production of basic training graduates in a decade with the graduation of sailors from Training Group 52, the Navy ...

Recruits make phone calls home after battle stations at U.S. Navy Recruit Training Command, March 7, 2023. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Stephane Belcher) The Navy's boot ...