FORT MCCOY, Wis. (Aug. 18, 2020) - Lt. Cmdr. Brittany
Summary
FORT MCCOY, Wis. (Aug. 18, 2020) - Lt. Cmdr. Brittany Mertz, center, assigned to preventative medicine at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Il., discusses barracks safety with Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Carmen B. Roman, left, and Chief Machinist's Mate Cody Partin, right, prior to new Navy recruit arrivals on board Fort McCoy, a U.S. Army training center in western Wisconsin. Recruit Training Command (RTC), Great Lakes, Il., is working with the Army at Fort McCoy to establish a restriction of movement (ROM) site for Navy recruits prior to entering bootcamp. Additional personnel support from Great Lakes, Ill., Millington, Tenn., and Washington, D.C., have been deployed to assist RTC in conducting the initial 14-day ROM to help reduce the risk of bringing the coronavirus to RTC should any individual be infected. More than 40,000 recruits train annually at the Navy’s only boot camp (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Elijah G. Leinaar)