Identification

• Recruits in the Army National Guard begin their service by attending the Army's Basic Combat Training. New members of the Army National Guard train alongside recruits in the regular Army and Army Reserve.
  
  

Features

• Basic Combat Training is an intensive nine-week course that focuses on physical and mental fitness, soldier skills and the Army's seven core values: loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity and courage.
  
  

Types

• Throughout basic training, recruits will take the Army's diagnostic physical fitness test at various intervals to assess physical condition. Trainees learn drill, marksmanship, unarmed combat skills, map reading and land navigation and field tactics. Recruits study Army history and traditions and military justice. Recruits participate in live-fire and warrior training exercises in the final weeks of basic training.
  
  

Geography

• National Guard recruits attend basic training at one of several Army installations. These are Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Jackson, South Carolina; Fort Knox, Kentucky; Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; Fort McClellan, Alabama; or Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
  
  

Considerations

• Where recruits attend basic training is based on the advanced individual training they will attend after basic. Members who enlist in one of the combat military occupational specialties may attend basic and advanced training at one location: Fort Benning for infantry; Fort Knox for armor; and Fort Leonard Wood for engineers, military police, and chemical corps.