Yes, March 1966 to May 1966.
Basic Training (or Basic Combat Training) is a term exclusive to the US Army and Air Force - the Marines refer to it as Boot Camp. US Marines attend their Boot Camp either at MCRD Parris Island (in South Carolina) or MCRD San Diego (in California).
Yes, there is a Basic Combat Training (BCT) school in Texas. The BCT program is conducted at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri, Fort Jackson in South Carolina, and Fort Sill in Oklahoma. These are the three locations where the United States Army conducts its basic training for new recruits.
No. You won't be able to get it until after you complete your Entry Level Training (otherwise known as Basic Combat Training and Advanced Individual Training).
Albert Elkin has written: 'The development of a list of minimal training goals for basic combat training' -- subject(s): Basic training (Military education), Combat, Drill and tactics, United States, United States. Army. Infantry
A good combat video for training soldiers is Go Army. It enables a civilian to be a soldier in ten weeks. Civilians can get Basic Combat Training (BCT). One can also watch some Youtube videos about this.
It depends on your MOS. They like to send you to the closest basic training base to your AIT training base because it's cheaper that way.
Fort Sill. There are some Basic Combat Training and Advanced Individual Training units there.
No, you don't get CPR certified in Basic Combat Training/One Station Unit Training. The first aid training you receive in BCT/OSUT is very basic.
Personnel that join the military as officers (doctors, dentists, ministers, lawyers) attend a basic officer's branch course instead of basic combat training.
I believe he had an Infantry MOS, in which case, he would've done One Station Unit Training (Basic Combat Training and Advanced Individual Training, rolled into one package) at Fort Benning, Georgia.
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.
Yes. The day a service member swears in and leaves home for basic training they are placed on active duty status and remain there regardless of their actual job until graduation. Upon graduation they may be returned to reserve status if that is the type of unit they serve with. Same goes for National Guard.