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basic training

noun

Military. a period following a person's induction into the armed forces devoted to training in basic military comportment, duties, and combat skills.

“There should be humanist alternatives to church in basic training,” he said.

Jane Neubauer was just out of basic training when a secretive military unit recruited her for an undercover mission.

After graduating from basic training in Texas, Neubauer reported to Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi in March 2013.

For whatever reason they had enlisted, once they got to basic training, they stuck out miserably.

He enlisted in 1918 in Minnesota, he explained, and was sent east to Camp Dix for basic training.

I don't remember anyone crashing a plane in primary or basic training.

In his cadet years he had aided in such a program at least twice as a matter of learning the basic training of the Service.

East of the grass there were whole armies who had completed basic training, fit and supple.

It's going to take a lot of leg work, something in which our formal courses don't give us any basic training.

I had no basic training because of my Marine Corps basic training took care of that.

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