They're responsible for training and mentoring Navy recruits during their time in boot camp. During the 13-week C School course, RDC students learn how to motivate recruits, inspect their barracks ...

The Navy added the two-week “Sailor for Life” curriculum to Basic Military Training in 2022, increasing the length of boot camp from 8 weeks to 10. The latest on Task & Purpose ...

Before they train Navy recruits at boot camp, future RDCs must graduate from Continuation School, or C School, at Naval Station Great Lakes near Waukegan, Illinois, about 40 miles north of Chicago.

More than 40,000 recruits train annually at the Navy's only boot camp at U.S. Navy Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Illinois, Feb. 24, 2023.

Nearly 200 chiefs-select will return to the Navy’s boot camp this fall as part of a program that the sea service is resurrecting after doing away with it five years ago. The Chief Selectee Back ...