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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 Jacksonville, Florida. During this tour he was designated as a naval aircrewman and completed th...

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 Elgin's 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 country. Services, observances, parades and ceremonies throughout the suburbs offer a chance to refle...

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 Training Command (NETC), officiated the event. CNP addressed participants, guests and many of whom wer...

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 Corps boot camps, built in the 1910s, are simply not built to accommodate companies integrated by...

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 Chaplain, Recruit Training Command at Naval Station Great Lakes, who will speak on the importance and sacr...