Here's a description of Army basic training as of 1999.
Some things struck me--the expansion from 8 to 10 weeks first of all. Sounds as if they've used the extra time for more military stuff-I don't remember a full week of field exercises, nor any exposure to machine guns.
No mention of policing the area. . Policing the area was basically forming a line and picking up cigarette butts. I wonder if that still happens, given the decline in smoking since 1960's?
KP--glad to see they still make young troops do it. By the time I got through basic at Fort Dix and went to Ft. Belvoir they had started contracting it out there.
The pay--$380 a week? We got $80, IIRC.
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