Everyone who has joined the Army, with few exceptions, has had to go through Basic Training.
Basic Training consisted of learning the basics of Army life.
How to march
How to tell
an officer from an enlisted, and the ranks of each.
How to salute
How to sit,
eat, sleep, talk, walk, and think the Army way.
How to shoot a rifle, crawl under live fire, throw a grenade and
much much more.
The U.S. Army had many Basic Training Army Posts throughout
the United States. Some were
Fort Campbell, Fort Knox, Fort Benning, Fort Polk and others.
Other Services, US Airforce, Navy and Marines had their basic training camps as well.
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Each new recruit climbed onto a bus, train or plane to get to Basic Training.
Here was my transportation, for the first leg.
Here was an example of what Basic Training was like at Fort Polk, La in 1967
