GREAT LAKES, Ill. (July 12, 2021) Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) New Student Indoctrination (NSI) midshipman candidates perform exercises during a physical training session conducted at Recruit Training Command (RTC). Upon completion of NSI, the students will start their freshman year of the NROTC program at colleges and universities nationwide this fall. NSI is a three-week indoctrination program hosted at RTC, which provides midshipmen with a common military training orientation. NSI provides basic training in five warfighting fundamentals - firefighting, damage control, seamanship, watchstanding and small arms handling and marksmanship - to begin creating basically trained and smartly disciplined future Navy and Marine Corps officers. NROTC is overseen by Commander, Naval Service Training Command (NSTC), Rear Adm. Jennifer S. Couture and supports naval accessions training for 98 percent of the Navy's new officers and enlisted Sailors. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist John Sorensen)