The United States Army

After graduation from BCT you will then proceed directly to Advanced Individual Training or AIT. This is where you will be in school learning the job you have chosen to do in the Army. This is also a 7 day a week, 24 hour a day, live in environment, but it is slightly more relaxed, just slightly however. You will be living in a barracks setting just like where you were living in BCT and everything you learned there will apply here, like cleanliness and orderly living. Your day will typically start before the sun comes up, doing physical fitness training or P.T. This is vital to your performance in AIT and will become a big part of your life while you serve. You will march with your class to go eat 3 times a day and you march to and from class each day. AIT classes vary in time needed to train you; it all depends on the technicality of the job skill you signed up for. You will know how long training will last and where you will be going to complete your training by your recruiter before you go to BCT.

Your decision to becoming a soldier in the United States Army is a valuable one. For many people it has broken chains of poverty that plague families and will make everyone willing to accept the challenge, a viable and marketable asset to society. The benefits are vast and great and in my opinion and others, the sense of accomplishment and being part of a team of warriors engaged, so other’s can live free is all worth going through.

This article is presented by me, Staff Sergeant William C. Barron, a retired Transportation Corps veteran of the United States Army. I would like to dedicate this article to those who make the  great choice to serve, to those still serving and most of all to those who have given their lives, who made the ultimate sacrifice past and present, so everyone can live in freedom.

I would like to close by presenting you with a quote form my retirement plaque by George L. Skypeck:

“I was that which others did not want to be. I went where others feared to go, and did what others failed to do. I asked nothing from those who gave nothing and reluctantly accepted the thoughts of eternal loneliness…should I fail. I have seen the face of terror: felt the stinging cold of fear: and enjoyed the sweet taste of a moments love. I have cried, pained, and hoped…but most of all, I have lived times others say were best forgotten. At least someday I will be able to say that I was proud of what I was…a soldier.”

Soldiers future, past and present! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your service! Hooah!!!!