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Navy Trying Something New as It Looks to Train Recruits
Aired November 25, 2003 - 05:33 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: The Navy is trying something new as it looks to train recruits to become superior sailors. And to do so, it's decided to focus less on the physical training and more on the mental.
CNN's Keith Oppenheim has more for you.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
KEITH OPPENHEIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's 06:00 at Navy boot camp.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let's go, go, go, go.
OPPENHEIM: The commands reflect an obsession in the U.S. Navy.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thursday's left.
OPPENHEIM: An obsession with time. The Navy doesn't like to waste it.
MIKE TSIKOURIS, RECRUIT TRAINING COMMANDER: Time management is huge here because every moment counts.
OPPENHEIM: And the Navy wants to spend those moments on things like emergency drills, where recruits learn to make fast decisions about saving lives.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Find your victim.
OPPENHEIM: The focus is not just physical fitness, it's mental fitness.
SEAMAN HERBIE CRONE, BOOT CAMP GRADUATE: The stamina of being able to think and keep your composure under strenuous circumstances.
OPPENHEIM: In terms of schedule, that means adjustments. Instead of six hours of sleep, recruits now get about eight.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So if you're body's not rested or ready, you can't perform.
OPPENHEIM: They're also spending half as much time marching, down from 30 miles a week to 15.
(on camera): Realize that Navy training lasts just nine and a half weeks. And the goal now is to have a better rested, more alert recruit who actually completes more training in that relatively short period of time.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You want a smarter sailor with extraordinary physical stamina.
OPPENHEIM (voice-over): In fact, the Navy is investing nearly $800 million in a new high tech training campus, part of a school of thought which says crises at sea now demand as much from the head as they do from the body.
Keith Oppenheim, CNN, Chicago.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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Aired November 25, 2003 - 05:33 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: The Navy is trying something new as it looks to train recruits to become superior sailors. And to do so, it's decided to focus less on the physical training and more on the mental.
CNN's Keith Oppenheim has more for you.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
KEITH OPPENHEIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's 06:00 at Navy boot camp.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let's go, go, go, go.
OPPENHEIM: The commands reflect an obsession in the U.S. Navy.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thursday's left.
OPPENHEIM: An obsession with time. The Navy doesn't like to waste it.
MIKE TSIKOURIS, RECRUIT TRAINING COMMANDER: Time management is huge here because every moment counts.
OPPENHEIM: And the Navy wants to spend those moments on things like emergency drills, where recruits learn to make fast decisions about saving lives.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Find your victim.
OPPENHEIM: The focus is not just physical fitness, it's mental fitness.
SEAMAN HERBIE CRONE, BOOT CAMP GRADUATE: The stamina of being able to think and keep your composure under strenuous circumstances.
OPPENHEIM: In terms of schedule, that means adjustments. Instead of six hours of sleep, recruits now get about eight.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So if you're body's not rested or ready, you can't perform.
OPPENHEIM: They're also spending half as much time marching, down from 30 miles a week to 15.
(on camera): Realize that Navy training lasts just nine and a half weeks. And the goal now is to have a better rested, more alert recruit who actually completes more training in that relatively short period of time.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You want a smarter sailor with extraordinary physical stamina.
OPPENHEIM (voice-over): In fact, the Navy is investing nearly $800 million in a new high tech training campus, part of a school of thought which says crises at sea now demand as much from the head as they do from the body.
Keith Oppenheim, CNN, Chicago.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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