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Our son is in basic training.
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The Army also launched pre-enlistment boot camps to help potential candidates get into shape before going into basic training.
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Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 13 Mar. 2025
At least 29 recruits have died during basic training at law enforcement academies around the country in the last 10 years, including Ronald Donat, who died in 2021 in Gwinnett County.
—Kristal Dixon, Axios, 19 Feb. 2025
Its mission was to provide basic training for soldiers deploying in World War I.
—Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025
The move comes on the heels of the Air Force confirming Saturday that course instruction about the Tuskegee Airmen − the more than 15,000 Black pilots, mechanics and cooks in the segregated Army of World War II − had been pulled from basic training curriculum.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025
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Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 13 Mar. 2025
At least 29 recruits have died during basic training at law enforcement academies around the country in the last 10 years, including Ronald Donat, who died in 2021 in Gwinnett County.
—Kristal Dixon, Axios, 19 Feb. 2025
Its mission was to provide basic training for soldiers deploying in World War I.
—Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025
The move comes on the heels of the Air Force confirming Saturday that course instruction about the Tuskegee Airmen − the more than 15,000 Black pilots, mechanics and cooks in the segregated Army of World War II − had been pulled from basic training curriculum.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025
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“Basic training.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/basic%20training. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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