Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) NSI midshipman candidates graduate from NSI Cycle 2

Credit: Dustan Burke | Date Taken: 07/22/2021
GREAT LAKES, Ill. (July 22, 2021) – Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) NSI midshipman candidates graduate from NSI Cycle 2 at Recruit Training Command (RTC), July 22. The graduates will start their freshman year of the NROTC program at colleges and universities nationwide this fall. NSI is a three-week indoctrination program hosted at RTC, which provides midshipmen with a common military training orientation. NSI provides basic training in five warfighting fundamentals – firefighting, damage control, seamanship, watchstanding and small arms handling and marksmanship – to begin creating basically trained and smartly disciplined future Navy and Marine Corps officers. NROTC is overseen by Commander, Naval Service Training Command (NSTC), Rear Adm. Jennifer S. Couture, which supports naval accessions training for 98 percent of the Navy’s new officers and enlisted Sailors.(U.S. Navy video by Dustan Burke)