It should be as hard or harder than your limits. It is designed to find your limits and try to push you to the edge of what you can endure (or cause you to quit). It is mentally and physically challenging. It is designed to be hard, so you can be prepared for what will be expected of you. It is much less painful to endure a training sergeant yelling at you, cram for evaluation events, and put up with the discomfort of a little physical exercise than it would be to catch a bullet in your chest or head because you were not prepared. Yes, it is hard! That is the point!
So easy a caveman can do it
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Every enlisted person has to. Officers have their own training regimen.
Professional training - none. Military training - that of an ordinary soldier.
The 'shark attack' really establishes a baseline for many things to come in military basic training. Once you arrive at your site of training, the drill seargents need to establish authority, teach timely obedience, structure and show you that there will be punishments if you do not work together and rely on eachother. This method works extremely well in getting these points across.
Standard Navy boot camp, not much different then it is today. There were a number of training centers, Sampson Naval Training Center and Great Lakes Training Center were two of the biggest. They got basic protocol, military drill, damage control (fire fighting, dewatering, etc.), basic ship board procedures.
Yes, everyone in the Military is required to go to Basic Training.
Basic training gets you ready for the military lifestyle as well as get you in shape and teach you self discipline.
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Depending on what one's military occupational specialty is, will depend on the type of training that they receive. I was a radar repairman. I went to basic training, military combat training, basic electronics school, and radar repairman school.
The shortest military basic training program is typically found in the Air Force, which has a basic military training course that lasts for 8.5 weeks.
No.
Basic training, also referred to as Boot Camp.
Every enlisted person has to. Officers have their own training regimen.
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National Guard does not have a basic training, you are sent to basic training with other members of the Army whether they are in active or reserve status. No, you will not become a veteran if you fail to complete basic with any branch.
Depends on what branch of military your joining, your military occupational specialty, and your resident geographic location.
You would go through OBT - Officer Basic Training. There are no enlisted nurses.