U.S. Navy RTC or basic training is 9 weeks long. But your first week is for processing mainly.
Navy basic training is not held on shipboard. Basic training is held at the Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Illinois.
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The only Navy Basic Training facility (Boot Camp) is located at Recruit Training Command Great Lakes, Illinois.
You have to be at least 18 years of age to begin basic training with the Navy, you also have to be at least 18 years of age to enlist into the Navy.
He dropped out of basic training and never actually did anything in the Navy.
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Standard Navy boot camp, not much different then it is today. There were a number of training centers, Sampson Naval Training Center and Great Lakes Training Center were two of the biggest. They got basic protocol, military drill, damage control (fire fighting, dewatering, etc.), basic ship board procedures.
Navy Seal training lasts about nine months.
Both active and reserve sailors receive the same basic training in Great Lakes, IL. The process is normally 9 weeks long, but can be extended due to admin or heath issues of the recruit.
We were told that basic training would last 9 weeks. I joined the Navy in June of 1966 and left boot camp in San Diego the end of September 1966. Boot camp actually lasted 13 weeks.
No.Members of the Nursing Corps do not go through basic training. They attend an officer training, instead.
The Navy and Army's basic training is 8 weeks long. Air force is 6 weeks, and Marine Corps is 13 weeks.