{"id":22664,"date":"2020-10-20T21:52:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T21:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/10\/20\/largest-class-of-new-sailors-since-2004-graduates-from-navys-recruit-training-command\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:19:08","slug":"largest-class-of-new-sailors-since-2004-graduates-from-navys-recruit-training-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2020\/10\/20\/largest-class-of-new-sailors-since-2004-graduates-from-navys-recruit-training-command\/","title":{"rendered":"Largest class of new sailors since 2004 graduates from Navy\u2019s Recruit Training Command"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The largest class of recruits in more than 15 years just graduated from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2020\/05\/18\/navy-cautiously-optimistic-it-will-reach-recruiting-goals-this-year-despite-covid-19-challenges\/\" target=_blank>Navy\u2019s Recruit Training Command<\/a>, and the service has surpassed its enlisted accession goal for fiscal 2020, according to Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. John Nowell Jr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSince COVID became a part of our lives this past March, we\u2019ve managed to hit our recruiting goals for FY20,\u201d Nowell told reporters Tuesday. \u201cWe met those goals, in fact, we exceeded them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Navy\u2019s initial accession goal for the year was 40,800 personnel, but ultimately that number was adjusted to 39,600. Cmdr. Lara Bollinger, a spokesperson for Navy Recruiting Command, told Navy Times the service accessed a total of 39,678 new sailors in FY20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, more than half of those recruits graduated from Recruit Training Command at Naval Station Great Lakes in Illinois after the COVID-19 pandemic started, according to Nowell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve graduated more than 20,000 recruits amidst COVID from our Recruit Training Command,\u201d Nowell said. \u201cIn fact, last week, we graduated a class of 1,326 recruits from RTC Great Lakes \u2026 that\u2019s our largest class \u2026 since 2004.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cJust think about that: amidst COVID, the largest graduating class from RTC since 2004,\u201d Nowell said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nowell said in May he was \u201ccautiously optimistic\u201d the Navy would reach its recruiting goals by the end of the fiscal year, but noted it was \u201cconditions-based.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2020\/05\/18\/navy-cautiously-optimistic-it-will-reach-recruiting-goals-this-year-despite-covid-19-challenges\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/49867153217_f123e39c96_k.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Navy \u2018cautiously optimistic\u2019 it will reach recruiting goals this year, despite COVID-19 challenges<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">\u201cI am cautiously optimistic, but this is conditions-based.&quot;<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s because the COVID-19 pandemic has forced all the services to adapt how it recruits new service members. For example, the Navy was forced to take a three-week spring break from shipping new recruits to the training center after a recruit there tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When things started back up again in April, the Navy started requesting recruits voluntarily undergo a 14-day restriction of movement, or ROM, before departing for Great Lakes. Furthermore, the Navy then required a mandatory 14-day ROM before training started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Nowell, the Navy was using approximately 11 different hotels near Great Lakes for recruits to conduct their mandatory ROM. But since August, recruits have instead headed to an Army Reserve base to complete their ROM before heading to Great Lakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We have now transitioned that fully to an Army Reserve base in Wisconsin called Fort McCoy, Nowell said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moving from the hotels to Fort McCoy for the ROM period has saved the Navy roughly $2.8 million per month, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Navy also had to adjust the class size of recruits to safeguard against the spread of the virus, dropping to just 500 recruits per class. The service resumed classes of more than 1,200 recruits starting in July, according to Lt. Cmdr. Frederick Martin, a spokesperson for Naval Service Training Command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Navy largely credits its recruiting accomplishments to being ahead of the game in terms of recruiting virtually. For example, the Navy revamped its 26 Navy recruiting districts in 2016 and modified them as Navy talent acquisition groups, which ended up launching the e-talent divisions the Navy has capitalized on this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA large part of the Navy\u2019s success was because we had already started down the pathway of trying to get into the online realm,\u201d Cmdr. Thomas McKeon II, operations officer for Navy Recruiting Command, said in the Navy\u2019s October Sailor-to-Sailor newsletter. \u201cA fundamental part of the transformation we\u2019ve been doing has been creating whole e-talent divisions for that purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2020\/10\/15\/services-met-recruiting-goals-as-covid-forced-military-to-modernize-secdef-says\/\" target=_blank>all services are in good shape regarding<\/a> their FY20 recruiting targets. Although the Navy was the only branch to exceed its enlisted recruiting goals, within the officer pipeline, the service was just shy 200 officers for FY20, Navy Times previously reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, the Marine Corps hit its goals for enlisted and officer personnel, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2020\/10\/09\/end-strength-goal-met-with-growth-in-diversity-this-year-army-says\/#:~:text=The%20active%20duty%20Army%20met,Lt.%20Gen.%20Gary%20Brito.\" target=_blank>Army met its end-strength goal of 485,000 soldiers for FY20<\/a>. 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