[ background noise ] [ individual introductions ] I joined the Navy to see the world - to get out of Pennsylvania - some new experiences - to serve my country - cause a college education - to give myself somewhere in life - and I joined the Navy because I believe in service and giving back. Tonight when you get off the bus, you will see two sets of uniforms. First set will look like mine, black pants, khaki top, silver collar device. You will call them Petty Officer. Second set of uniforms you will see tonight, khaki pants, khaki top, and gold collar devices. You will call them Chief. I feel like, you know, being an American, we're given a wide array of freedoms that a lot, that a lot of other people don't get. Like, they don't get to experience the freedoms that we do so I'm willing to fight for them. I'm looking forward to challenging myself, bettering myself, and getting a career. I'm looking forward to structure. I'm looking forward to learning new things and being part of the Navy team. My grandfathers were in the service, so kind of following in their footsteps. It's very important to my family that I do this and do it well. I like the fact that it's gonna mentally push me and hopefully physically too. And, I just wanna be able to say I accomplished it, I did bootcamp, I made it through. [ Petty Officer provides direction ] Don't do anything 'til I say move. Watch, rings, with exception of wedding band or engagement ring you will take that out and put it inside your pocket. You've got one minute. Move. When you finish making your phone call and this double doors right here, first person that comes out, their phone, you go to the first person in line and give 'em your phone you will walk right back in here. You will stay with your cell phone at all times, do you understand? You will not go outside these double doors. You will stay inside these double doors, that's it. Alright, go. Your two minutes start when you get in contact with someone. [ talking to families ] About two, three weeks you'll be getting a box with all my stuff in it. Stand up, grab everything you came with. Bag, jacket, backpack, shirt. If you have a box, you wanna put it on the flag, on the toe line, just like when you first got on. That sheet of paper you got when you first got here, the one that says duty bag, you step on the machine you either circle ST, MC, CU. Medium cushion go. Medium stability go. Medium stability go. Alright, all your civilian stuff you wanna put behind you on the blue, on the blue tile. I want the smallest size up front, largest in the back. Example, seven eight or whatever the biggest one is. Figure it out. Let's go. Four through ten is here, twelve through twenty. You gonna get two unopened packages of underwear, two single pair of underwear. Once you're done with that you're gonna get one [inaudible] or yellow shirt. There's two shirts, rolled up. You're gonna get one sweat top, one sweat pants. You're gonna get a pair of shorts, a rolled short. Once you're done with that, over here it says shower shoes. Just grab the size that fits your feet. Once you're done with that, over here there's gloves. Try the gloves on, make sure they fit. If they don't fit, put 'em back in the plastic. Put 'em in your large knit bag. Fall back behind the box you're standing behind right now. [ music ] [ introductions ] I chose to be an RDC because as you serve at sea, you wanna find something in the Navy that you can fix. What I've learned through the Navy and the experiences that I've - at each different command that I've been to, I've picked up something that I feel I can pass on to the - basically the youth of the Navy. When I say fall out, you're gonna fall out to the left. Last recruit gonna say last recruit to let her know you're the last person in that line. Do you understand me? [ yes Chief ] Gotta get a little louder than that. [ yes Chief ] It's been eighteen years so as I leave the Navy I kinda wanna leave something behind, something positive. I think the best thing I could do is leave a positive [inaudible]. Alright, fall out let's go. Let's go, let's go. You guys gotta move a lot quicker than that. Who all volunteered, raise your hand. Great, put your hands down. Now that you know you volunteered, I don't wanna hear no whining, no cryin', no excuses. You understand? [ yes Chief ] Alright, the first thing we're gonna do is gonna eat chow, we gotta feed you. Three meals a day, that's what the government says. P days is the process in days, basically when you, when you get the recruits and you can set the tone right then. And, you train say from - from the beginning up until the end as long as you set that um - strong foundation. It's like building a house, uh and the recruits they always gonna have that strong foundation to fall on. But if - you gotta go hard from the - the beginning. For each push, you always wanna learn something new, you always learn something new cause you have eighty-eight recruits. You have new recruits every time so the experiences for each push is different so you always learn something new. It's a, the melting pot that comes from the United States. And you mix 'em all together and you learn something new every time. You're in the mindset that you're gonna help somebody, ya know, you're excited about helping somebody and you wanna change somebody's life and you know you're gonna do that, you might change quite a few lives in here. And it's gonna be awesome and so you kinda get excited and you kinda can't wait to start working. [ inaudible ] You're in the United States Navy, we don't have any badasses here. Alright? Ain't nobody tryin to get over you, ain't nobody trying to hurt you. We all here tryin to help you. Once you understand that it's gonna be an easy day. You understand? What you did back home, what you did - I don't care. I don't care what you had to do, who you had to hang with, that's what you had to do. Here in the Navy, you gonna be part of a team. And this teams gonna help you, we're not gonna judge you, we're gonna help you. You understand? [ yes Chief ] The mission here at Recruit Training Command is to take civilians and in eight and a half or nine weeks turn 'em into basically trained sailors. We're makin sailors that understand the rules, that can go on to their follow on A Schools, and learn the more advanced things that they need for success in their ships or in their aviation squadrons. Our division commanders, they do a - they do a phenomenal job of helping, uh, instill the concept of teamwork because when the, when the recruits come in here, probably uh this is the first time where they've been judged by the performance of their team and not by their own personal performance. A lot of them don't necessarily understand that concept and, uh, we have to drive that home. That's what we do, we help each other out. You understand that? Once you figure something out, you know nobody else knows how to do it, you help him. It's easy, you understand? Alright. Who's never shaved before, raise your hand. I'm gonna tell you what parts we gonna shave. You gonna shave - it's like this - the part of your ear here. I didn't say way up here, no. Like right here. We gonna be in there to instruct you. Don't lean on the bulkhead, take your time get it right. Like the middle of your ear, I didn't say go way up there. You gonna look at - uh - look at my shave right around the middle of my ear. Alright, go. Look up. Alright, go. Cut that out, shoulda shaved that before you came in the Navy. [ music ] Another couple things that we work on very hard is, is uh attention to detail and then, uh I'll call it a little bit of critical thinking so that they understand the decision making implications that come very close to uh, to graduation here. And the other piece is that, uh that we need to follow the rules in the Navy and the Navy has certain expectations for the rules that they follow. They can't pick some rules to follow and some rules not to follow they need to follow all the rules. [ cadet receiving instruction ] Training recruits is great. There's no textbook to show you exactly how to do it, you just gotta find the right tool to fit - fit the situation. [ music ] What we doin', we investing a lot of time in y'all, we expect y'all to perform. Understand? We trying to send a great product out to the fleet, we trying to send the best product out to the fleet. Everybody understand? [ yes Chief] Alright. If you ain't learn nothin I ain't goin home, we'll stay up all night till I teach you something. Least one or two things, everybody learn something'. One day we might get this ship underway, that's my objective here, to be able to get this division to start performing together. You must have some heart to do this job. Chief and I, we go hard in the paint. Understand that? [ yes Chief ] Hard in the paint, we take the ball up hard you know, sometimes we expect a foul. Y'all been fouling me like all day. Alright we start off, we start off eighty eighty we still got eighty eighty here. My goal here is to graduate everybody in this compartment. Anybody ready to quit? [ no Chief ] I can't hear you. [ no Chief ] Where's the motivation at? I expect everyone who come here, you need to be motivated I don't care if we work long hours. Learn those general orders, learn that Arctic Sea maximum, learn the chain of command, all that good stuff. Everyday's a training day. There's no time to rest. So everybody wants to be here? [ yes Chief ] Do we have any heart here? [ yes Chief ] Do we have any heart? [ yes Chief ] Prepare to mount racks. Sleep. Alright.
