Letters, photos (of a nonsexual nature), and nonperishable foot items. It would be best to limit mail to letters and photos.
You would go through OBT - Officer Basic Training. There are no enlisted nurses.
Yes
Marines don't go through Basic Training - they go through Boot Camp. The Army does accept prior service enlistees without requiring them to go through Basic Combat Training. However, one may be required to attend BCT if their break in service exceeds a certain period of time. Additionally, they may have to attend Advanced Individual Training (AIT) to become qualified for their selected occupation in the Army if their previous occupation in the Marine Corps was not parallel to it.
No.Members of the Nursing Corps do not go through basic training. They attend an officer training, instead.
To be a military nurse, you would go through OBT - Officers Basic Training - which is a bit different from the basic training enlisted personnel go through.
The only way to enter the US Army as a soldier without going through US Army Basic Training is to be a prior service member, in which case, you would have already gone through Basic Training/boot camp. Otherwise, the answer is no. You could gain employment as a Department of Defence civilian employee, but a lot of those jobs come with a stipulation that you join a reserve component of the military, which is still going to require you to go through Entry Level Training. Even officers have a Basic Training they go to - OBT, or Officers Basic Training.
Personnel that join the military as officers (doctors, dentists, ministers, lawyers) attend a basic officer's branch course instead of basic combat training.
A lot. They go through the same basic training all soldiers go through but then of course go through a whole bunch of specialized training as a marine.
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.
Alvin York was drafted and began his army service at Camp Gordon in Georgia.
It would probably be the French Foreign Legion. Other elite units typically have a selection process which the applicant goes through after they've completed their basic training, whereas the selection process for the Foreign Legion is conducted as part of their basic training.
BCT (Basic Combat Training) lasts nine weeks, and all recruits go through it. AIT (Advanced Individual Training) lasts different durations based on the Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) the recruit has chosen.