TINLEY PARK, Ill. — Recruits from Great Lakes Naval Station were treated to a holiday celebration in Tinley Park Thursday. The recruits are just two weeks away from graduation and those that WGN spoke ...

On a not-so-white Christmas Day, 50 recruits from Naval Station Great Lakes walked into a roaring welcome at Christian Liberty Academy in Arlington Heights, a tradition embraced by the community for ...

For a college quarterback, an invite from the Manning Passing Academy is usually too good to refuse. Being a counselor at the camp amounts to enrolling in football graduate school and learning ...

The Navy’s record-breaking recruiting numbers translated to the service’s highest production of basic training graduates in a decade with the graduation of sailors from Training Group 52, the Navy ...

(Nov. 20, 2025) Rear Adm. Matthew Pottenburgh, commander, Naval Service Training Command (center), Capt. Kenneth Froberg, commanding officer, Recruit Training Command (RTC) (right) and Navy Club of ...

Faith Bottum’s “Life Lessons From the Cutting Edge” (op-ed, Nov. 24) reminded me of a similarly mundane awakening. It was 1972 at Navy boot camp, where we were taught the proper way to fold our ...

ONSLOW COUNTY, N.C. (WNCT) — Elective surgical procedures at Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune have been postponed until Dec. 10th. NMCCL Public Affairs Officer told WNCT this was due to a facilities ...

I first joined the U.S. Naval Reserve in Savannah, Georgia, at the age of 18. I attended Navy boot camp and spent two weeks as a seaman apprentice aboard a destroyer escort, getting to learn a lot ...

WASHINGTON — New Jersey gubernatorial hopeful Rep. Mikie Sherrill was blocked from walking with her graduating class at the US Naval Academy after being caught up in a massive cheating scandal, a ...

Since its inception in 2014, SEAL Officer Assessment and Selection (SOAS) has served as an important step in screening potential candidates for Navy SEAL training. Conducted in three classes each ...

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