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Army Basic Training: "This is How It Is" 1963 US Army; The Big Picture TV-553
🕑 Added 2019-04-23 20:23:39 +0000 UTC'You receive your first clothing issue... your first dog tags... your first GI haircut.. You are tested... you eat your first meal of Army chow... you are tested some more...You have arrived -- arrived at the scene of Army Basic Training. What these recruits do, what they say, and what they think for their first eight rigorous weeks in the Army is captured by the cameras on this week's issue of THE BIG PICTURE... "This Is How It Is."'
Originally a public domain film, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Basic_Training
Wikipedia license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
United States Army Basic Training (also known as Initial Entry Training, IET) is the recruit training program of physical and mental preparation for service in the United States Army, U.S. Army Reserve, or the Army National Guard and varies greatly depending on one's chosen military occupation. An Army infantry recruit may expect a more intense, physically demanding basic training at Fort Benning via One Station Unit Training; while non-combat occupations receiving basic training typically occurs at Fort Jackson, which emphasizes balance and basic Army customs.
Carried out at several different Army posts around the United States, Basic Training is designed to be highly intense and challenging. The challenge comes as much from the difficulty of physical training as it does from the psychological adjustment to an unfamiliar way of life. Basic Training is divided into two parts: Basic Combat Training (BCT) and Advanced Individual Training (AIT). BCT consists of the first ten weeks of the total Basic Training cycle[2] and is identical for all Army, Army Reserve and Army National Guard recruits.
AIT instead consists of the remainder of the total Basic Training period and is where recruits train in the specifics of their chosen fields. As such, AIT is different for each available Army career path, or Military Occupational Specialty (MOS). AIT courses can last anywhere from 4 weeks to 7 months, and possibly more for foreign language training. Soldiers are still continually tested for physical fitness and weapons proficiency and are subject to the same duties, strict daily schedule and disciplinary rules as in BCT...
Drill sergeants are the instructors responsible for most of the recruit training that takes place in Initial Entry Training. They accompany recruits throughout the training process, instructing and correcting them in everything (from firing weapons to the correct way to address a superior) and are also largely responsible for the safety of recruits. They are recognizable by their distinctive headgear (campaign hats), often called "brown rounds" or "Smokey Bear" hats, as they resemble that character's round park ranger-style hat...
The U.S. Army has four sites for BCT:
- Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia; also provides Infantry and Armor OSUT
- Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina; largest of all BCT locations
- Fort Leonard Wood in St. Robert, Missouri; also provides Corps of Engineers, Chemical Corps and Military Police OSUT
- Fort Sill in Lawton, Oklahoma; also provides Artillery OSUT...
