Paulina Howard \u201815
\nEE Managing Editor<\/p>\n
\u201cTough times never last, tough people do.\u201d Given Navy issued clothing, taught correct way to fold\/store belongings, and how to make their bunk. <\/p>\n Week 2<\/strong> Week 3<\/strong> Week 4<\/strong> Week 6<\/strong> Week 7<\/strong> Week 8<\/strong> Paulina Howard \u201815 EE Managing Editor \u201cTough times never last, tough people do.\u201d In-processing week Given Navy issued clothing, taught correct way to fold\/store belongings, and how to make their bunk. Dental…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2582,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions\/2582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>In-processing week<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nDental and Medical exams and haircuts are given
\nFirst week is long and grueling with conditioning, swimming training, marching, drilling, and actual Navy classes.<\/p>\n
\nWeek focused on confi dence building
\nInitial swim assessment (50 yards, a five minute prone float and clothing inflation to name a few skills required).
\nFitness baseline test
\nLearn the Navy\u2019s core values and ranking system.
\nConfidence Course – a course designed to simulate shipboard situations you could encounter in an emergency.<\/p>\n
\nHands-On week
\nLand-bound training ship skills\/scenarios
\nLearn ship nomenclature (names), first aid techniques, and semaphore (signaling with flags)
\nClassroom studies focus on Customs and Courtesies, laws of armed conflict, money management, shipboard communication, Navy ship and aircraft identification, and basic seamanship.
\nBasics of uniform presentation and inspection
\nKnot tying
\nLearn Chain of Command and 11 General Orders of the Sentry and military drill<\/p>\n
\nLive-Fire Week
\nTrain with the M-16 and a 12-gauge shotgun
\nAfter successful completion of guns listed above, recruits will move onto a live-fire range.
\nMid-Cycle Assessment (MCA) to examine progress in drills, proper uniform, Physical Fitness Assessment (PFA), upkeep of locker and barracks, as well as live fire weapons training.
\nWeek 5
\nFiguring out where the recruits will go with their completion of boot camp and what the shortest path to get there will be<\/p>\n
\nFire Safety Week
\nLearn most vital skills for the ship – shipboard damage control and firefighting
\nSkills include: how to extinguish fires, escape smoke-filled compartments, open and close watertight doors, operate Oxygen Breathing Apparatus and carry fire hoses
\nConfidence Chamber – 100 recruits line up, put on a gas mask while a tear gas tablet is lit, then proceed to remove the mask and recite full name and social security number while breathing in the gas. Must complete this challenge as a team<\/p>\n
\nBattle Stations – the ultimate test
\nConsists of tweleve different scenarios incorporating everything recruits have learned during the previous weeks
\nMust complete as a team
\nReward for successful completion? An official Navy hat that no longer says \u201crecruit\u201d!<\/p>\n
\nGRADUATION! YOU ARE NOW A US NAVY SAILOR!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"