basic training

noun

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

Example Sentences

NASA typically takes two years or more to train a crew for a particular mission—not to mention the preceding years astronauts spend in basic training before they qualify for a given mission in the first place.

From Time

He was drafted in 1942 and suffered his only Army wound while in basic training, when he accidentally cut his leg with a bayonet.

From Washington Post

A few days into basic training, he was with his platoon on a training march wearing full packs.

From Washington Post

In fighting off demands for an end to gender-integrated basic training, Army leaders lost any momentum they initially had for trying to promote cultural change.

From Washington Post

Ultimately, the military — including the Army — wisely rejected this report’s findings on gender-integrated training and refused to segregate men and women in basic training.

From Washington Post

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg