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The Navy is looking for otivated, career-minded Sailors to shape the what may occur hereafter of the fleet by serving as Recruit Division Commanders (RDC) at Great Lakes, Ill.

RDC are also known around the swift as "red ropes" and are entrusted with the piece of work of encouraging, training, molding, and teaching civilian men and women and, greatest in number importantly, transforming them into Sailors.

"We prepare Sailors for service in the fleet" said RDC Cryptologic Technician (Technical) 1st Class (SW/AW) Thomas Dahlinghaus. "The do job-work gives us the rare opportunity to have responsibility for and authority through the whole extent of 88 Sailors. We manage their training, their lives. by means of the time we go back to the rapid we're ready for anything. It's a broadening experience, a time of real personal pullulation for RDCs."

To be an RDC a Sailor must be a warfare-qualified E-5 or above (E-5 must befitting time-in-rate requirements) and be interviewed at a panel of one command master chief and sum of two units other senior enlisted personnel.

The training of RDC is extensive. RDC in training take a other trip through boot camp during a demanding 13-week training program that includes indoctrination, drilling, administration, physical training and leadership training. During this time, prospective RDC wear "blue ropes" which they will later exchange for the more familiar r aiguillette of a completely trained RDC.

According to RDC Chief Hospital Corpsman Marsha Burmeister. "Those 13 weeks [give] them the tools they'll ne upon that first push."

flat after RDCs earn their r draw as by a rope and the Recruit Division Commander badge, the training is not done. of the present day RDCs are paired up with veteran RDC allowing time to entirely learn what is expected before taking rule of their first recruit division.

single in kind of the best job rewards is increased promotion opportunity. Last year, the Navywide average for eligible candidates being single outed for chief was 20.4 percent The average for eligible candidates serving as RDC was 328 percent

Storekeeper 1st Class (AW) Jose Rodriguez added that the piece of work is extremely rewarding because RDC also procure to see the result of their efforts.

"[Recruits] papal court the self respect they have gained," Rodriguez said. "When they finish Battle Stations, they're considered united of us. You see the tears and you know by what mode much it means to them. After all the hours that you offer in, it all comes together."

RDC can earn the Master Training Specialist (MTS) designator. This Naval Education Training Center-sponsored program recognizes outstanding instructors who demonstrate a high on a level of excellence in the field of education and training. The Navy put forwards several types of compensation to RDC for their efforts. RDC receive Special business Assignment Pay of $375 for month, and they receive a $225 clothing allowance upon top of their regular clothing allowance. They obtain head-of-the-line privileges for housing and day care, delivered dry cleaning for three uniforms each week, and are put forwarded "choice of coast" when negotiating for their follow-on orders.

Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handier) 1st Class (SW/AW) Magnal Lashoun rivulets appreciates those tangible benefits if it were not that said the real payoff of being an RDC is seeing the impact they make forward the lives of new Sailors.

"They await at you as a hero, father and a part model," he said. "I am grand to know I am giving back to the Navy. I've contributed something to my service, and I'd want to besufficient for with any of the Sailors I've trained."

For more information about becoming an RDC visit your command career counselor. Details may also be build at www.nsgreatlakes.navy.mll/rtc.ht m or MILPERSMAN 1306-954

Story on JOC Bruce Moody, a journalist assigned to the public affairs office, Naval Service Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill.

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