The Vice Chief of Naval
Operations, Adm. Mark Ferguson, visited Recruit Training Command (RTC), Sept. 21.
    It was Ferguson’s third visit to RTC, his first as VCNO, and his second time serving as the reviewing officer for the Pass-In-Review (PIR) graduation ceremony at RTC where 690 recruits became sailors.
    “This is my third time visiting Great Lakes,” said Ferguson. “Every time I come here and have the chance to meet with recruits and the RDCs I leave rejuvenated and recharged.”
    Prior to reviewing the graduation ceremony, Ferguson toured the Navy’s largest simulator, USS Trayer (BST 21), the 210-foot-long mock-up of an Arleigh Burke destroyer inside a warehouse behind RTC’s USS Iowa
headquarters building.