NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. (WCJB) - Investigators determined an 18-year-old recruit from Ocala who died at a Navy training site in Illinois committed suicide. According to our affiliate in Chicago, first ...

GREAT LAKES, Ill. -- An 18-year-old Navy recruit died during boot camp in Illinois this past week. Spokesman Lt. Joseph W. Pfaff said Kelsey Nobles of Mobile, Alabama, died Tuesday after collapsing ...

Short video from Captain Erik Thors, commanding officer of Recruit Training Command (RTC) (USN), as he narrates a video that gives friends and family members of the RTC recruit experience from the ...

Seaman Apprentice Jason Lorentz received the Military Excellence Award after completing the Future Sailor Prep Course and basic training. (U.S. Navy Recruit Training Command) A sailor who once doubted ...

Editor’s note: This report has been updated to include the recruit’s identity and a release from the Lake County Coroner’s Office. A recruit assigned to Recruit Training Command at Great Lakes, ...

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. — A Defiance teen has been named the top sailor in her class from Recruit Training Command (RTC) Great Lakes here, earning the Military Excellence Award (MEA). Eliza Ramirez, 18, ...