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Fleet Master Chief (N008) Fleet Master Chief James “Smitty” Tocorzic is a native of Shinnston, West Virginia and a 1989 graduate of Lincoln High School in Shinnston, West Virginia. He entered the Navy through the Delayed Entry Program and arrived for basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes in December 1989. Following Recruit Training, Naval Aircrew Candidate School and Aviation Structural Mechanic (AMS) “A” School, he reported to VP-30 in ...

Memorial Day services, observances and parades around the suburbs   Members of the Schaumburg VFW Post 2202 fire a 21-gun salute during a previous Memorial Day observance at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Schaumburg. Jeff Knox | Staff Photographer, 2017   A combined Color Guard marches into the Elgins Memorial Day event at Bluff City Cemetery. John Starks | Staff Photographer, 2014   Daily Herald Report Memorial Day is a time to honor those who lost their lives serving our co...

78 GREAT LAKES, Ill. (May 27, 2021) – Rear Adm. Jennifer S. Couture relieved Rear Adm. Milton J. Sands III as commander of Naval Service Training Command (NSTC), Thursday, May 27, in a change of command ceremony held at the Navy’s only boot camp, Recruit Training Command (RTC) on Naval Station Great Lakes. Vice Adm. John B. Nowell Jr., Chief of Naval Personnel (CNP), served as the guest speaker at the ceremony and Rear Adm. Pete A. Garvin, commander of Naval Education and Tr...

Frosted Windows, Shower Signs: What It Took to Get the Marines San Diego Boot Camp Ready for Female Recruits New Marines in Platoon 3241 complete tasks in their squad bay before boot camp graduation in April 2021 at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California. (Hope Hodge Seck/Staff) 22 May 2021 MCRD San Diego -- When Marine leaders defend the Corps historic resistance to further gender integration of recruit training, they often bring up infrastructure as a major challenge. The two Marine...

Kingswood Church Memorial Day Service at Knopf Cemetery   Updated 5/19/2021 9:25 AM A special program to acknowledge the dedicated service and sacrifice of American veterans will be held by Kingswood United Methodist Church at Knopf Cemetery, located on the east side of Arlington Heights Road, north of Lake Cook Road on Monday, May 31. The program, which begins at 11:00 a.m. is free and open to the public. The program will feature remarks by Lt. Col. Carlos Rodriguez, Staff Chapla...

By THE DAILY STAR Published: May 12, 2021 (Tribune News Service) — U.S. Navy officials said a Delaware County, N.Y., native took charge of the Recruit Training Command at a change-of-command ceremony at Naval Station Great Lakes in Illinois on May 5. Capt. Jeffry A. Sandin relieved Capt. Erik M. Thors as commanding officer during a virtual ceremony held on the USS Trayer, according to a media release. Rear Adm. Jamie Sands, commander of the Naval Service Training Command, was the guest spe...

University of Wisconsin-Madison NROTC Commissions Five New U. S. Navy and Marine Corps Officers Photo By Scott A. Thornbloom | MADISON, Wis. (May 8, 2021) U. S. Marine Corps 2nd Lt. Lucas Latterell receives his...... read moreread more Photo By Scott A. Thornbloom | MADISON, Wis. (May 8, 2021) U. S. Marine Corps 2nd Lt. Lucas Latterell receives his first salute from U. S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. ...

11 GREAT LAKES, Ill. - Capt. Jason Williamson relieved Capt. Raymond Leung as Commanding Officer of Naval Station Great Lakes during a change of command ceremony on the morning of May 7. The ceremony took place aboard the installation at Ross Theater on the mainside of the installation. Rear Adm. Charles Rock, Commander, Navy Region Mid-Atlantic, served as the guest speaker. Leung served as Naval Station Great Lakes Commanding Officer from May 2018 to May 2021. Faced with the u...

108 After an eight-month joint-service endeavor between Recruit Training Command (RTC) and Fort McCoy, a U.S. Army training center in western Wisconsin, RTC has moved the Navy’s recruit restriction of movement (ROM) site from Fort McCoy back to RTC’s facilities. Executing ROM at RTC provides leadership more flexibility regarding staff schedules. It also allows augmenting Sailors to return to their parent commands after months of hard work away from their families to support ...

11 GREAT LAKES, Ill. - Capt. Jason Williamson will relieve Capt. Raymond Leung as Commanding Officer of Naval Station Great Lakes during a change of command ceremony on the morning of Friday, May 7. The ceremony will take place aboard the installation at Ross Theater on the mainside of the installation. Rear Adm. Charles Rock, Commander, Navy Region Mid-Atlantic, will serve as the guest speaker. The ceremony will be a closed event, by invitation only, due to COVID-19 restriction...