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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 the RTC mission. Safe completion of ROM is important to the continued flow of personnel through the ...

© Getty Images Happy Friday and welcome to Overnight Defense. I'm Ellen Mitchell, and here's your nightly guide to the latest developments at the Pentagon, on Capitol Hill and beyond. CLICK HERE to subscribe to the newsletter.   The man, who made it past the flight line and entered a C-40 aircraft assigned to the 89th Airlift Wing, was detained by security forces on the base, according to an Air Force statement released on Friday.  “Everybody’s taking this very seriously,” top Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby told reporters. New IG probe: Acting Air Force Secretary John Roth an...

Chief Quartermaster Herbert Rojas died, Feb. 2, due to complications associated with COVID-19. (U.S. Navy) 5 Feb 2021 Two sailors died of the illness caused by the coronavirus this week, bringing the total number of U.S. troops killed by the illness to at least 20. Chief Quartermaster Herbert Rojas, a 50-year-old staff instructor at Recruit Training Command Great Lakes, Illinois, died of COVID-19 on Tuesday. Rojas was quarantining in his off-base residence after testing positive for the virus when he was found unresponsive, said Lt. Cmdr. Phil Chitty, a Naval Service Training Command spokesma...

US Navy Chief Quartermaster Herbert Rojas died Feb. 2, in his off-base residence, due to complications associated with COVID-19.Rojas, 50, of Richmond Hill, New York, was assigned to Recruit Training Command Great Lakes as a staff instructor.”We are deeply saddened by the loss of our friend and shipmate Chief Rojas, and we will continue supporting his Chief Quartermaster Herbert Rojas died Feb. 2, in his off-base residence, due to complications associated with COVID-19. Rojas, 50, of Richmond Hill, New York, was assigned to Recruit Training Command Great Lakes as a staff instructor. “We...

Navy chief dies of COVID complications Chief Quartermaster Herbert Rojas died Tuesday, Feb. 2, of COVID-related complications. (Navy) A Navy chief and staff instructor at Recruit Training Command Great Lakes, Illinois, died Tuesday at his home due to COVID-19 complications, the second active-duty sailor to die this week after contracting the novel coronavirus. Chief Quartermaster Herbert Rojas, 50, of Richmond Hill, New York, had been randomly tested recently and was “asymptomatic positive” at the time, according to Lt. Cmdr. Phil Chitty, a spokesman for Naval Service Training Command...