All About Basic Training

The new soldier is given basic infantry training during his first eight weeks in the Army

. He learns how to drill and march in formation. He spends several hours each day on the drill field, learning how to keep in step and how to make military turns. He is given a rifle, and he learns how to take care of it. He is shown how to take the rifle apart and put it together again, and how to keep.it clean. When he is thoroughly familiar with the rifle, he is taken to the firing range and given target practice. He also learns how to use the bayonet and the hand grenade.

Later he is given training with mortars, machine guns, and bazookas. He is taught how to protect himself in case of chemical attack. He puts on a gas mask and goes through a room filled with tear gas. During these first eight weeks, the soldier is also given physical training. For an hour or two each day he does all sorts of exercises. This helps to harden him and make him stronger. He continues to attend lectures. He learns more about military justice and law, and is also given information on what is going on in the world, and why it is necessary for him to be in the Army. He also learns one of the most important things in his Army career. This is the necessity for teamwork. The Army depends on teamwork. Every soldier must work together with every other soldier.

Teamwork also depends on discipline. Every soldier must obey all the orders and commands that are given to him. Without discipline there could be no effective Army. The new soldier also spends time in kitchen police (this is work done in the Army kitchen or mess hall), and other jobs that have to be done around an Army camp, such as cleaning up (called "policing"). Not all of his time is spent in work and training, however. Each evening he is allowed to relax and do whatever he wishes. He may go to a movie in the camp, write letters, read, watch television, or just chat with his buddies. He may also go to the PX (Post Exchange, a sort of store) and buy things, drink soda, eat ice cream and cake, or play games.

The soldier may receive visitors, such as his family and friends, on Sunday afternoons At the end of eight weeks, the new soldier is usually sent to another camp for an additional eight weeks of training. At the new camp he will be trained in the branch of the Army to which he has been assigned. It may be the infantry, the artillery, the engineers, the signal corps, or one of the other branches of the Army. He is taught how to use and operate the special tools, equipment and weapons of his new branch. At the end of his sixteen weeks of basic training, the soldier is usually sent to join a unit. The unit is the group with which he will identify himself. It may be a division in the infantry, a battery in the field artillery, or some other group. Some soldiers are sent to schools where they may learn special skills, such as radio repair and operation, truck and auto mechanics, cooking, clerking and typing, radar operation, and many others. All through the basic training period, the new soldier remains a private. He cannot be promoted until he is through with his training.

by: David Bunch

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