Training

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Permalink Reply by E.G. - ND's Creator/Admin on May 28, 2012 at 4:13pm

Ed, they are housed and trained separately.

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Permalink Reply by Ed Duarte on May 28, 2012 at 5:16pm

Thank you.

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Permalink Reply by Craig on May 28, 2012 at 9:08pm

As E.G. said, they could be housed in the same ship, however, they are in an all male or female compartment.  

I have to disagree with E.G. about training.  They do have some groups that are intermixed.  It's not always just male only or female only.  

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Permalink Reply by Jack Flash on June 3, 2012 at 2:28pm

Are the recruit classes always of a certain standard size? Looks like 50, or 60 in the group. And then from what I an tell, there are several groups all going through training at the same time.

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Permalink Reply by Rick Binkley on June 3, 2012 at 3:18pm

Jack...my sons division is 77 strong...and divisions are integrated and non-integrated..by gender

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Permalink Reply by Ed Duarte on June 3, 2012 at 4:04pm

My sons division is also around the 70 mark, and there are several groups at graduation and it will include several divisions.

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Permalink Reply by Jack Flash on June 4, 2012 at 6:10pm

I'm starting to get a sense of scale...  I was thinking about the fact that some 40,000 Recruits are brought on board each year, and since they are in Boot Camp for two months, that would mean that at any given moment there are roughly 6500 Recruits in process at Great Lakes.  Does that seem right?

 

I read also that each "ship" (barracks) has room for up to 1300 Recruits and each Division up to 88 members.

 

It's bigger than a breadbox.

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