Navy Stops Sending New Recruits to Army Training Base Used During Pandemic
Recruits line up after arriving on board Fort McCoy, a U.S. Army training center in western Wisconsin, on Aug. 25, 2020. Recruit Training Command (RTC), Great Lakes, Ill., is working with the Army at Fort McCoy to establish a restriction of movement (ROM) site for Navy recruits before entering boot camp. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nikita Custer/U.S. Navy)
20 Apr 2021
Navy recruits will no longer spend weeks at a Wisconsin Army base hundreds of miles from their boot camp site, the service announced Tuesday.
New Navy recruits arrived directly at Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Illinois, on Monday for the first time in eight months. About 23,000 recruits have, since August, first stayed at Fort McCoy in central Wisconsin, where they quarantined ahead of boot camp during the global pandemic.