basic training
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Drafted into the Army, he and his brother were so fit that they breezed through basic training.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
He joined the California National Guard and met a bunkmate in basic training who worked in the mailroom at Revue Studios, which was owned by MCA.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026
They said goodbye for the final time at a railway station, before Shane set off to begin basic training.
From BBC • Aug. 23, 2025
Dehumanization was central to basic training, Camil remembers, and he illustrates that by singing a few bars of a song they sang as they jogged.
From Salon • Apr. 30, 2025
At the end of basic training, he was assigned his specialty: “Indirect fire crewman.”
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
