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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...

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...

Photo via Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island Facebook page 18 Dec 2020 Military entry-level training, like most things in 2020, has been anything but normal this year. Recruits have spent the weeks leading up to boot camp or basic training sequestered in dorm rooms and hotels. Hundreds of Navy recruits made headlines in the spring when they were quarantined at an indoor Illinois water park, not far from Great Lakes Training Center -- though the waterslides weren't actually up and running. Earlier this year, the pandemic forced all the services to temporarily pause the shipment of incomi...

Print The U.S. Navy has identified the 20-year-old sailor who apparently went overboard the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt Thursday off the coast of Southern California as Ethan Goolsby of Texas. Goolsby, an aviation ordnanceman airman apprentice, went missing three days after the aircraft carrier set sail from San Diego. The Navy said Goolsby reported to the Theodore Roosevelt in July following initial training as an aviation ordnanceman in Pensacola, Fla. Goolsby had been promoted to his current rank in September. He reported to Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Ill. in Novembe...