COVID-19 Restrictions Lead to Successful Recruiting at Fort McCoy

Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the Navy has taken great care to protect its newest recruits from the virus, establishing precautions and measures that enabled the service to graduate more than 17,000 recruits through boot camp since March. To support this mission-essential undertaking, sailors from within the MyNavyHR enterprise volunteered to oversee and lead the establishment of the restriction of movement, or ROM, site for recruits at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin.

In August, 13 sailors from Commander, Navy Recruiting Command boarded a bus with 13 other sailors from various commands based out of Millington, Tennessee, and headed for Wisconsin. The all-volunteer crew of 26 sailors was mixed in rank spanning from E5 to E9, with their Navy experience being as diverse as their personalities.