What does basic training in The Army or The Navy consist of?

Answer 1

I Don't know about the Navy, but here is an overview of what to expect from Army Basic Training:


Basic Combat Training (BCT) consist of nine weeks of intense training designed to hone your skills, teach you new skills, optimize your physical and mental performance. It will prepare you mentally, physically, and emotionally to be the best that you can be.

New recruits attend Boot Camp/Basic Training in one of several places. These include: Fort Benning, Ft. Benning, GA; Fort Jackson, Columbia, South Carolina; Fort Knox, Louisville, Kentucky; Fort Leonard Wood, Waynesville, Missouri; Fort McClellan, Anniston, Alabama; or Fort Sill, Lawton, Oklahoma. Where you attend is relative to the location of the Advanced Individual Training (Job Training) you will attend after Basic Training.


If you enlist in one of the Combat Arms MOS's, you may attend Basic Training and Advanced Individual Training at one location: Fort Benning for infantry; Fort Knox for armor; Fort Leonard Wood for combat engineers, military police, and chemical.


Week 1
As you adjust to Army life, you begin to learn the importance of Army Values and learn how they shape you as a Soldier. You will take your first diagnostic Army Physical Fitness Test, learn how to march and prepare your barracks for inspection. You will practice Drill and Ceremony, learn your Special and General Orders and the Military Justice System. You will also learn how to disassemble, reassemble, clean and sight your M-16A rifle. This knowledge provides you the foundation for good soldiering.

Week 2
You'll be taught unarmed combat skills, learn first aid, map reading and land navigation. Your confidence will be put to the test at Victory Tower - where you'll rappel from a 30-foot platform. You'll learn the Army value of Loyalty and the importance of teamwork.

Week 3
You will be introduced to the bayonet and basic bayonet movements. You'll become even more familiar with your M-16A2 rifle as you practice basic rifle marksmanship fundamentals. You'll learn how to defend yourself from chemical attack and continue to improve your fitness through Physical Training. Through examples of the Army's history, you will learn another Army value - Duty.

Week 4
This week emphasizes the Army value of Respect. You respect your fellow Soldiers and your accomplishments as a team. You continue to practice basic rifle marksmanship fundamentals and learn multiple target detection. Your physical strength is put to the test as you take your second diagnostic Army Physical Fitness Test, demonstrating how much better you have become.

Week 5
It's time for you to qualify on your M-16A2 rifle, and when you successfully complete the exercise, you'll be awarded a badge of Marksman, Sharpshooter or Expert. You'll learn the Army value of Selfless Service and how Soldiers have continuously given of themselves throughout the U.S. Army's history.

Week 6
You'll take your third Army Physical Fitness Test and become familiar with a variety of U.S. weapons. You'll learn tactical movement techniques, and as a member of a team, you'll participate in a defensive live-fire exercise. You'll also learn the meaning of the Army value of Honor.

Week 7
Your physical training will pay off as you take your final Army Physical Fitness Test. You're in the best shape of your life and passing the test is no problem. You'll learn another Army value - Integrity - and know the Army Values that have been instilled in you to this point will help you overcome the challenges of the Confidence Course.

Week 8
You'll learn the meaning of Personal Courage, the final Army value. Your soldiering skills are tested during the Warrior Field Training Exercise. All your training comes into focus and you perform each task flawlessly. You're almost finished with training, and you're gaining more confidence and skill every day.

Week 9
You have been empowered by your training, and you are ready to contribute your skills to the team - the U.S. Army. You prepare for graduation with a new sense of purpose. The seven core Army Values are now an integral part of your life. On graduation day, you feel a sense of pride you have never felt before. Your parents, relatives and friends will feel it too.

You are a Soldier

Answer 2

Your basic training consists of learning all the drill that you need in the Army. Then there is the Physical training to get through. You will also do weapons and spend some time on the firing range. After training all day, you will spend most of your spare time "Bulling your kit"". You may be selected to do fire picket duty or Guard duty. You will also have a medical and any inoculations the Army decides on. Stick it out, and you have a good career.

Answer 3

I am a Naval Veteran. When I went through basic training in 1973 it went something like this. We showed up on a bus at the Naval Base in Chicago, Ill. as we got off the bus all I hear was an E-6 SHOUTING LINE UP YOU MAGGOTS!!! (From what I hear it is a little less sever today then it was then.) We were quick walked if we were in a # of 4 or more or had to run if less to any destination, P T 3 X a Day Training in the Barracks of how to do everything the Navy way, from folding clothing to doing laundry. Field Training, Classroom, 3 meals eat all you want but you must eat what you take. no tossing out food. standing Guard Duty at night and still you're, respondsible, for daily duties. I don't know how long Basic is now, mine was 16 weeks. in the middle we had what was called service week where we worked wherever we were assigned, I was assigned to the bakery on night shift and this was the only time we were allowed to skip inspections and were allowed to eat at off times in the mess hall. This was GREAT DUTY! !! (And I enjoyed this part of basic and only this part of basic) The rest was work, work, work & more work
but leaving basic to go to corpsman school another 3 months of intense training, believe me corpsman school put basic to shame. If your on your way to Basic don't sweat it KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT, DO WHAT YOU'RE TOLD, AND PAY ATTENTION TO THE INSTRUCTORS !!! YOU'LL DO FINE !!!

Answer 4

I was in the navy 25 years ago. I assume it's still basically the same now as it was then.

If you get there early (say, on a Friday and the bootcamp starts on a Monday), you spend your first days marching around and learning facing movements (right/left/about face). Otherwise, you're eating chow or marching around all day.

Once you actually start, you get your hair cut (buzz cut for guys, don't know what for girls) and you get your uniforms issued to you. Uniform issue takes all day, because you have to stencil all of your uniforms with a laundry pen. That sucked for me, because I have 10 letters in my last name, while some others had 3 or 4. They were always yelling at me for being slow.

That's another thing - people are always yelling at you, like you did something wrong, even when you do everything right. It's not very motivating, if you ask me.

Anyway, you march in formation wherever you go. And, a few hours a day are spent drilling. You go through dental screening and they determine whether you need dental work, including wisdom teeth pulled. They don't put you asleep when they pull them. They just shoot you up with novocaine. At one point, they pulled out one of my teeth and dropped it down my throat. I somehow managed to catch it before it slid all the way down into my lungs. The dentist just laughed and said, "Nice catch."

Among the marching and PT (physical training - running and calesthenics, mostly), there is a considerable amount of classroom training. I don't remember what they taught us, really. Basic seamanship stuff, but I don't remember the specifics.

They also spend a lot of time teaching you how to fold your clothes exactly right, such that they fit perfectly in the correct places in your locker. And, how to make up your rack (bunk) with perfect hospital corners in the sheets and everything. A lot of this is to teach you how to pay attention to detail; a skill that you need to have when doing procedures on the ship later on.

Sundays are pretty much relaxation days. There's some PT. But, that's when people catch up on their correspondence. Evenings (after evening chow, at around 8 PM) are usually pretty quiet, too.

In a nutshell, it was boring, humiliating, tiring (physically and from sleep deprivation), and pretty much a big mind ...err ... copulation.

Answer 5

I would think very carefully before enlisting for the Army.

From what I've seen on TV, army training for private soldiers involves 'breaking you down' as an individual with a lot of v hard physical exercise and petty rules/discipline. Lots of marching and cleaning your kit., banal punishments like cleaning the loo with your toothbrush for looking at the sarge the wrong way, running around with heavy kit/rifles, 'who can load their gun the fastest' drills. Stuff like that. Once they've broken you down as an individual (so you will work as part of your unit as a team and obey orders without question-even to kill), they then 'build you up' again. The army becomes your life.

This is all very well in war conditions, but not much use when they have to leave the army 'family' and come into 'civvy street' and get a job. Many ex forces personnel are homeless and have drink or mental health problems due to the problems in readjusting to the real world as well as the traumas they have been through.

Answer 6

the army is hardcore and would recommend to anyone, the navy spent most of their time getting bummed in showers, except the royal marines, those guys rock

Answer 7

being shouted at

having your kit/bedding thrown out the window

being treated as the lowest form on earth

(which is funny as they could never get away with this if you where a criminal)

being paid a crap wage

then getting sent overseas to get shot at

I bet you wish now you got better grades at school

Answer 8

Well, you have to run about 25 miles a day with full gear (50+ pounds) on and their is EXTREMELY strict discipline

Answer 9

whooping your butt into shape. Loads of running, yelling, and learning to work well with others. Little sleep, lots of pain and exersize.

Answer 10

If you have to ask than it is too much for you.They will work you from daylight to dusk--and be in your face.