In October 1965 I used a M1 Grand in Basic at Lackland it was left over from the Korean War. All the new AR15's were going to Nam.
Basic training for the Army takes 9 weeks. Advanced individual training can last an additional 6 weeks to 1 year! The Army have 5 different locations for basic training.
Most of training is mostly exercising and gun training. You will be doing a lot of running weights courses, drills and gun training during the Army basic training.
Basic training.
There is no Army National Guard basic training. It is basic training at one of the US Army's active duty training base. All active, reserve, and guard members train together as one. The platoon guide is basically a leader of the platoon.
For that time period, it would've been the M1 Garand, which was also the standard service rifle of the time period.
There is no particular time involved between an Army soldier completing basic training and being deployed. It depends on the need and the job that the soldier is trained to do. Many soldiers are deployed shortly after completing basic training.
The army basic training program takes nine weeks to complete. It is required to become a US soldier.
no ur not... but after basic training u can use them
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Ten weeks.
The United States basic training army can be known as Initial Entry Training, aka IET. The more familiar term however, is the "Army Bootcamp." Many people know what Bootcamp is, where as IET is not as well known.
The Navy and Army's basic training is 8 weeks long. Air force is 6 weeks, and Marine Corps is 13 weeks.