NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, Jr. is now a Navy recruiter — and officials want to see if he meets a quota of 88 recruits by the end of August.
Recruits who sign up to attend boot camp as part of the “Dale Earnhardt Jr. Division” will ship to Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Ill., the week of Aug. 18-22.
Once the recruits go through in-processing, the division will be commissioned by Earnhardt, who is expected to join the recruits later in training, possibly for their BattleStations final exercise or the graduation ceremony.
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Navy officials won’t start swearing in recruits the special division until May 24, when Earnhardt will drive a No. 83 Navy Monte Carlo SS race car decked out in a special paint scheme commemorating the recruit division in the CarQuest Auto Parts 300 race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Charlotte, N.C. — part of the Nationwide Series where JR Motorsports fields two teams.
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Blue Angels on the #88 at Richmond: In honor of the U.S. Navy’s elite flight demonstration team, Brad Keselowski will drive the #88 Navy Blue Angels Chevy in Saturday’s Lipton Tea 250 Nationwide Series race at Richmond International Speedway. Instead of the usual “Dress White” paint scheme the Navy Chevy has sported throughout the 2008 season, the #88 will be blue and gold, just like the Blue Angels’ F/A-18 Hornets.(JR Motorsports PR)(4-30-2008)