“Training at Ft. Leonard Wood is lots easier than say at Ft. Benning.”
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I’m not sure Basic would be any easier but AIT probably is. I did OSUT (One Station Unit Training) at Benning in the mid-80’s. The difference between Basic and AIT for us was that we were allowed to wear soft caps in the Company area in AIT. For Basic we always had to wear helmet liners. For 16 weeks we had the same barracks, same Drill Sgts, same speed marching to all the rifle ranges instead of Cattle Cars and I was wishing I’d gone in to Supply instead of Infantry.
I was in the Air Force.
We had to go without cable tv.