How Navy boot camp instructors are trained

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Recruit division commanders, known as RDCs, are the drill sergeants of the United States Navy. Before they train Navy recruits at boot camp, future RDCs must graduate from Continuation School, or C School, at Naval Station Great Lakes near Waukegan, Illinois, about 40 miles north of Chicago.

Here's why it's an aircraft carrier tradition to catapult a pair of boots

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A pair of boots wait to be launched from the flight deck during a boot shoot.
Cmdr. Dennis Metz's boots wait to be launched from the flight deck during a boot shoot.

US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Bill M. Sanders

Watch the new US Navy supercarrier USS John F. Kennedy catapult heavy cars into a river to make sure the warship can handle planes

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The aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) is the second ship in the Gerald R. Ford class, the Navy's newest class of nuclear aircraft carriers.
The aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) is the second ship in the Gerald R. Ford class, the Navy's newest class of nuclear aircraft carriers.

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See the hectic flight deck of a US warship fighting Houthis in the Red Sea

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Constant jet launches, high tech, and tight quarters are part of daily life for US Navy members as they battle Houthi attacks in the Red Sea.

British divers retrieved an 80-pound brass bell from the only American destroyer sunk in World War I more than 100 years after the ship was torpedoed

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The Jacob Jones sank off the coast of Britain in December 1917 after being torpedoed by a German submarine.
The Jacob Jones sank off the coast of Britain in December 1917 after being torpedoed by a German submarine.

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What it's like on board a US aircraft carrier fighting Houthis in the Red Sea

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The Navy's USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier is leading the fight against Houthi rebels. See how it launches dozens of fighter jets each day.

The US Navy needs more counter-drone tech to stop a growing Middle East threat

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Amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland disabled an unmanned aerial vehicle with a solid state laser during a demonstration in 2020.
Amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland disabled an unmanned aerial vehicle with a solid state laser during a demonstration in 2020.

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The bodies of 2 Navy SEALs will probably never be found after rescuers searched 21,000 square miles without success, experts say

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Cypriot Navy special forces and US Navy SEALs at sea
Cypriot Navy special forces and US Navy SEALs in a joint rescue exercise in the port city of Limassol, Cyprus, on September 10, 2021.

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Losing Navy SEALs at sea during operations is extremely rare. It's only happened a handful of times.

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A coffer carrying the remains of Scott A. Wirtz, a Defense Intelligence Agency civilian and former Navy SEAL
The remains of Scott A. Wirtz, a Defense Intelligence Agency civilian and former Navy SEAL, at Dover Air Force Base, January 19, 2019, in Dover, Delaware.

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A YouTuber made a breakthrough in a decade-old case of a Navy veteran who vanished in the Ozarks

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YouTuber James Hinkle
YouTuber James Hinkle made a breakthrough in a cold case by finding a submerged vehicle in a pond.

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