recruit training
Breaking in newcomers
Recruit training is the initial military instruction given to new enlistees, transforming civilians into soldiers, sailors, or marines.
Also called basic training or boot camp.
The program combines physical conditioning, weapons handling, drill, and military customs over several weeks: He shipped off to recruit training at Parris Island.
The experience is designed to be demanding and disorienting, breaking down individual identity to build unit cohesion.
- calisthenicsEquipment-free resistance exercises
- drillHole-boring device
- barracksSoldiers' residential building
- obstacle coursesPaths with built-in barriers
- navigation skillsCapacity to find destinations
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- military fitnesspush-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups, pushups, pullups
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- Navy Recruitsboot camp, enlistment, sworn in, Great Lakes, berthing
- military aviation trainingflight school, flight academy, aviation school, flight instruction, Air Force Academy
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Advanced military education institution
staff college · command training · advanced training · continuing education
recruit trainingdischarge
Release of substance outward
separation · outprocessing · mustering out · demobilization · military retirement
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