220615-N-ZW825-0101 GREAT LAKES, Ill. (June 15, 2022) NROTC New Student Indoctrination (NSI) Cycle 1 midshipman candidates demonstrate proper arm crossing form during a safety brief prior to their second class swim qualification at Recruit Training Command (RTC), June 15. Upon completion of NSI, the candidates will start their freshman year of the NROTC program at colleges and universities nationwide this fall. NSI is an indoctrination program hosted at RTC, and provides midshipmen with a common military training orientation. NSI provides basic training in five warfighting fundamentals - firefighting, damage control, seamanship, watchstanding and small arms handling and marksmanship - to begin creating basically trained and smartly disciplined future Navy and Marine Corps officers. NROTC is overseen by Commander, Naval Service Training Command (NSTC), Rear Adm. Jennifer S. Couture, which supports naval accessions training for 98 percent of the Navys new officers and enlisted Sailors.