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|type= |role= Recruit training |size= |command_structure= |garrison=Naval Station Great Lakes North Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |garrison_label= |patron= |motto= "The Quarterdeck of the Navy" |colors= |colors_label= |march= |mascot= |equipment= |equipment_label= |battles= |anniversaries= |decorations= |battle_honours= |battle_honours_label= |disbanded= |flying_hours= |website=(http://www.bootcamp.navy.mil/ ) |commander1= |commander1_label= Commanding Officer |commander2= |commander2_label= Executive Officer |commander3= |commander3_label= Command Master Chief |commander4= |commander4_label= |notable_commanders= }} Recruit Training Command Great Lakes (RTC Great Lakes), is a unit within the United States Navy primarily responsible for conducting the initial orientation and indoctrination of incoming recruits. It commonly is referred to as boot camp, recruit training, or RTC. Since the BRAC-directed closures of Recruit Training Commands in Orlando, Florida and San Diego, California in 1999, RTC Great Lakes has been the only enlisted basic training location in the U.S. Navy and has been called "The Quarterdeck of the Navy" since it was first utilized in July 1911. Running at approximately eight weeks long, all enlistees into the U.S. Navy commence their enlistments at this command. Upon successful completion of basic training, qualifying sailors are sent to various apprenticeship, or "A schools", located across the United States for training in their occupational speciality, or ratings. Those who have not yet received a specific rating, enter the fleet with a general designation of airman, fireman, or seaman. Recruit Training Command is located at Naval Station Great Lakes in the city of North Chicago, Illinois in Lake County, north of Chicago. It is a tenant command, meaning that although it is located on the base, it has a separate chain of command. ==History== After the Spanish–American War, the U.S. Navy began investigating 37 sites around Lake Michigan in order to locate a new training center in the Midwest, an area that contributed 43 percent of the Navy’s recruits at the time.〔(Naval Station Great Lakes Base Guide & Telephone Directory, Page 46 )〕 Illinois Congressional Representative and chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs (1900–1911) George Edmund Foss pressed for the decision to locate the center at its present location, and was later called "The Father of Great Lakes". Foss Park, just north of the base in North Chicago is named in his honor. It is likely the facility would have been located elsewhere had it not been for the $175,000 contribution of the Merchants Club of Chicago to purchase the land.〔 Rear Admiral Albert A. Ross was the station’s first commander, and the base's Ross Field and Ross Auditorium were later named in his honor. The first flag was planted on site on 1 July 1905. President William H. Taft dedicated the station six years later on 28 October 1911. In that same year the station received its first trainee, Seaman Recruit Joseph W. Gregg.〔(Naval Station Great Lakes Base Guide & Telephone Directory, Page 47 )〕 Naval Station Great Lakes was at the forefront of the racial integration of the Navy. African-Americans were permitted to enlist for general service in the middle of 1942 receiving training at Great Lakes as well as Hampton, Virginia. Previously they had been restricted to special duties.〔"Negroes in War-Stride." Wide World News Service. ''The Kansas City Star''. Kansas City, Missouri. 20 September 1942. Page 19.〕 The Navy commissioned its first African-American officers, later known as the "Golden Thirteen," at Great Lakes in February 1944. In July 1987, building 1405, the Golden Thirteen Recruit In-Processing Center, was dedicated in their honor. The surviving eight attended the ceremony.〔 Navy recruit training is now exclusively conducted at Naval Station Great Lakes' Recruit Training Command. Prior to the mid-1990s, recruit training facilities included Naval Training Center Orlando and Naval Training Center San Diego. Female recruit training was previously limited to the Orlando facility. The Base Realignment and Closure Commission of 1993 resulted in the consolidation of recruit training to Great Lakes. Following the consolidation, the Navy undertook a massive recapitalization (recap) program to upgrade the Great Lakes Recruit Training facility.〔(SECNAV Visits Naval Station Great Lakes ). Friday, 13 October 2006.〕 The recap included the construction of Camp John Paul Jones, a site on land formerly owned by the Veterans Administration Hospital adjacent to Camp Porter.〔(RTC Ground-Breaking Ceremony Paves Way for Camp John Paul Jones ). 2 October 2002 11:51:00 p.m.〕 New barracks were also constructed, and are referred to as "ships" by the recruits. Each "ship" was also named after an important ship in naval history, such as USS ''John F. Kennedy'' and USS ''Enterprise''. Each "ship" can house up to 1300 recruits during training. A ''Arleigh Burke''-class destroyer simulator called USS ''Trayer'' (BST-21)〔The USS ''Trayer'' simulator was named after James Sheldon Trayer.〕 was also constructed as part of the recap program also known as Battle Stations 21 (BST 21).〔(Trayer Commissioned at RTC ). 20 June 2007 4:25:00 PM.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Illinois」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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