190719-N-IK959-2008 GREAT LAKES, Ill. (July 19, 2019) Rear Adm. Jamie Sands, commander, Naval Service Training Command (NSTC), speaks to Naval ROTC midshipman instructors in the USS John F. Kennedy ship barracks at Recruit Training Command (RTC). The Naval ROTC midshipman instructors were part of a three-week New Student Indoctrination (NSI). They are the main instructors, mentors and leaders of young men and women from across the country entering their freshman year of the Naval ROTC program at universities nationwide this fall. The midshipman candidates are undergoing a three-week indoctrination program hosted at RTC, the U. S. Navy’s only boot camp, which provides standardized entry-level militarization and prepares midshipmen with a common training orientation. They are led by Navy-option 1st class and Marine-option 2nd class midshipmen, instructors and staff from Naval ROTC units throughout the United States. The staff is overseeing and instructing the midshipmen candidates with assistance from the Recruit Division Commanders and instructors assigned to RTC as well as active duty Marine Corps Drill Instructors. NSI provides basic training in five warfighting fundamentals – Fire Fighting, Damage Control, Seamanship, Watchstanding and Small Arms Handling and Marksmanship -- to begin creating basically trained, smartly disciplined, tough and courageous future Navy and Marine Corps Officers. (U. S. Navy photo by Scott A. Thornbloom/Released)