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

Every morning, Allen made sure the small Bible he’d been given in basic training was in his left-hand pocket, carefully wrapped in plastic to stay dry.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge