190728-N-IK959-1658 GREAT LAKES, Ill. (July 28, 2019) Rear Adm. Jamie Sands, left, commander, Naval Service Training Command (NSTC), and staff tour temporary uniform issue compartments in the USS John F. Kennedy ship barracks (ship 9) at Recruit Training Command (RTC). Sands was accompanied by Capt. Shaun McAndrew (right), professor of Naval Science, commanding officer of the University of Idaho Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) unit and officer in charge of the NROTC New Student Indoctrination (NSI) Cycle 2. The admiral was there to tour the spaces where NROTC midshipman candidates and midshipman instructors are staying as part of the NSI Cycle 2. The young men and women candidates from across the country will be entering their freshman year of the NROTC program at universities nationwide this fall. The indoctrination program, hosted at RTC, the U. S. Navy’s only boot camp, provides standardized entry-level militarization and prepares midshipmen candidates with a common training orientation. They are led by Navy-option 1st class and Marine-option 2nd class midshipmen, instructors and staff from NROTC 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)