Basic Training: Fact And Fiction

Abstract: 3 pages in length. Conjuring up images of basic training typically takes one's thoughts to exhaustion, exercise, pain, sleep deprivation, more exercise, disillusion, pushing personal limits and, as always, even more exercise. While Hollywood's depiction in such films as Stripes and Private Benjamin leans heavily toward buffoonery instead of realism, the extent to which such physical and emotional agony is a day-to-day, hour-to-hour, minute-to-minute reality speaks to the undercurrent of dedication required by all recruits no matter gender, race or age. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

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Catagory: Social Security & Welfare

Subcatagory: Political Science & Government

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