Command Master Chief Curtis Blunt, command master chief, III Marine Expeditionary Force, speaks to recruits inside a compartment of the USS John F. Kennedy recruit barracks during his visit to Recruit Training Command. III MEF, headquartered in Okinawa, Japan, is sponsoring a recruit division, Division 263, for the first time in its history. More than 40,000 recruits train annually at the Navy's only boot camp.