By Cheryl Pellerin
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 5, 2014 – Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is
on a two-day trip to Illinois to participate in a change-of-command ceremony at
U.S. Transportation Command today and to speak at the Chicago Council on Global
Affairs and visit recruits at the Naval Training Center Great Lakes tomorrow.
At Scott Air Force Base in St. Clair County, Hagel will
welcome incoming Transcom Commander Air Force Gen. Paul J. Selva and celebrate
the accomplishments of the departing commander, Air Force Gen. William M.
Fraser III, who will retire from the Air Force after 40 years of service, Army
Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, told reporters at the Pentagon today.
After the ceremony this afternoon, the secretary will fly to
Chicago, where tomorrow morning he will make remarks at the Chicago Council on
Global Affairs, Warren said. In the afternoon, Hagel will travel to North
Chicago to the Naval Training Center Great Lakes, founded in 1911 and home of
the Navy’s only boot camp.
According to the facility’s website, since World War I it
has trained and sent to the fleet more than 2 million sailors through its
Recruit Training Command, which calls itself the “Quarterdeck of the Navy,” and
nearly as many from its technical schools.
Naval Training Center Great Lakes is the largest military
installation in Illinois and the largest training center in the Navy, the
website says. Warren said that while there, Hagel will observe recruit training
and observe the installation’s sexual assault prevention and response training
program, which Pentagon Press Secretary Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby said is on
the leading edge of experimenting with new ideas and implementing
comprehensive, evidence-based methods of sexual assault training and
prevention.
“They're really a model not just for the Navy, but for the
whole military,” Kirby told reporters May 2. “They've been working with the
local community on things like bystander intervention and alcohol policies, and
they've been seeing some promising results, to the point that other
installations are starting to follow their lead.”
Warren said Hagel will meet with recruit instructors and
talk to recruits before returning to Washington tomorrow evening.
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