The USCIS closures at basic training locations, and the guidance document, are "a public admission that there's no more basic training naturalization, and no more expedited military naturalization," Stock said.
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Following basic training, Mugurel started performing CPR on the pup.
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Basic training is being increased from 14 to 22 weeks.
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Emil was 19 when he was sent to basic training.
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Narrator: Male and female recruits train together throughout basic training.
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While he was in basic training, Phil married Sheva Jonesi.
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She is now preparing to ship off for basic training.
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At age 37, he entered basic training in the Army.
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These are folks that are about to go to basic training.
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He was told to be ready for basic training in November.
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Cho was told he would report to basic training in March.
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Zaid received basic training at al Farouq, according to the report.
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After basic training, he expected to be shipped off to Vietnam.
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My basic-training experience was full of marching of all kinds.
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Basic training was as gruelling as it was in the movies.
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She ships off to basic training the first week of April.
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Some will have conservators with basic training apply a remedial treatment.
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Thomas and Fleecie, who now live in Pennsylvania, got engaged just before Thomas left for basic training in April 1951, and they were married in October of that year after he completed basic training and Ranger School.
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The person has signed a contract but not yet started basic training.
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Right after basic training, they took a photo together on Cinnamon Beach.
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The Turks provide basic training but the focus is on urban warfare.
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I was in the ROTC, and I did basic training in Texas.
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Some won't be able to handle the physical rigors of basic training.
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If you have gone to basic training, you know what that means.
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Bergdahl's gung-ho attitude from basic training didn't seem so absurd now.
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After basic training, he was sent to Canada for instruction in explosives.
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The recruit has also not yet started basic training, according to CNN.
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No one wants to be in basic training for longer than necessary.
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Basic training included propaganda films, and one was about the American Revolution.
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Most were not seasoned soldiers and were just going through basic training.
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"They've instituted some very basic training for players and league officials," she said.
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It used to take a day after basic training to complete that form.
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Click here to view original GIFThere's a reason they call it basic training.
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"Basic training is hell on earth, as it should be," one veteran said.
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His ship date for basic training, expected within six months, was postponed twice.
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In "Basic Training," men become soldiers order by order and step by step.
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One study looked at the impact of mindfulness on Marines going through basic training.
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This essentially ended the practice of expediting citizenship for recruits who complete basic training.
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As a recent military enlistee, he's been off at basic training since mid-February.
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Soldiers who took compassion training recovered faster from stressful situations, such as basic training.
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CNN: Some veterans have said your transitional housing program is similar to basic training.
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In Advanced Individual Training, soldiers are drilled in technical skills after Combat Basic Training.
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She went through basic training and flight school and was commissioned a second lieutenant.
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The photo of Basic Training Class Number 18 was taken at Glenville State College.
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She became engaged to a woman and adjusted to the discipline of basic training.
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The sailors have one more thing to do before they complete SWCC basic training.
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Cover image: New recruits carry out basic training in Bangui, CAR, in Feb. 2018.
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Hockenberry was part of a group visiting a basic training facility for Afghan soldiers.
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He had briefly joined the armed forces, but quit after 193 days of basic training.
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He had briefly joined the armed forces, but quit after 16 days of basic training.
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I met some of those Sunni fighters last summer when they graduated from basic training.
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It thinks I'm a new recruit, and it wants me to go through basic training.
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There were times during basic training that I wondered what I had gotten myself into.
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"He was slated for basic training, and they did intelligence testing for draftees," Dudziak said.
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It stated that individuals who had "shipped" to initial military training ("basic training") before Oct.
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In this way, the passive jostling provided "basic training for later flapping flight," he said.
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New sanctions against Russia, democracy demonstrations in Hungary and more comfortable basic training in Belgium.
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James Winnefeld said Sunday that basic training and maintenance is "stretched" on U.S. warships overseas.
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The Marine Corps, unlike every other service branch, segregates recruits by sex during basic training.
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The rest of the military is already completely integrated when it comes to basic training.
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She nearly washed out of basic training, sustaining a nerve injury that set her back months.
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According to court documents, Jameson enrolled in the Marines and attended basic training in June 2009.
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But an alternative—upgrading informal providers by giving them some basic training—is unpopular with medics.
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However, once you get through basic training, you don't need the app to control the droid.
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But after shedding 113 pounds in seven months, Pinto is headed to basic training next month.
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By March 2008, Mr. Vinas had begun basic training at a Qaeda camp in northwest Pakistan.
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A nice byproduct would be a population with basic training ready to help in natural disasters.
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There was one very short parade at the end of our eight weeks of basic training.
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In June of 217, David and Mitch went through basic training at Fort Benning, in Georgia.
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Helus also was a firearms instructor for sheriff's recruits at a basic training academy, Dyer said.
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"I condemn the photo of Basic Training Class #18 in the strongest possible terms," Justice said.
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He said he also required everyone to take a basic training course on handgun safety and protocol.
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These hospitals failed the most basic training of security that we all knew cold in the '80s.
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But the discharges have resulted in immigrants having their basic training delayed and thus threatening their naturalization.
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He completed basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., and Advanced Individual Training at Fort Huachuca, Ariz.
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Medeiros, for example, said he's been waiting 18 months to be told to report to basic training.
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Last year, all three of Anne Wilson's children reported to basic training within weeks of each other.
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Mr. Breland was sent to Missouri for basic training and later was stationed in Georgia and Germany.
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We got an inside look at the United States Marine Corps' intense 543-week basic training program.
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So he expected to be called for basic training in a month, maybe two at the most.
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More than 350 additional DACA recipients have signed contracts with the Army and are awaiting basic training.
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The Marine Corps remains the only military service that still separates men and women during basic training.
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But the recently discharged service members have had their basic training delayed, so they can't be naturalized.
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After a few weeks, Specialist Natkevicius was on his way to Fort Benning, Ga., for basic training.
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She, in turn, gives him a Bible before he goes off to basic training, at Fort Jackson.
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Kutteles adopted the slogan that had been drilled into her son during basic training as an infantryman.
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In reponses, the government has argued for dismissal, saying that the plaintiffs would be naturalized after basic training.
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"I was in basic training for the first week of the show and lost eight pounds," she says.
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But the company is making it easier to start basic training of custom models with these new domains.
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Basic training is physically and mentally grueling—it includes days-long marches and outdoor overnights in the rain.
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While Doss excels during basic training, the Seventh-day Adventist refuses to touch a rifle on religious grounds.
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In November, after completing basic training, the recruit reported the abuse and the Marine Corps started the investigation.
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The Marine Corps is the only US military branch that separates male and female recruits during basic training.
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Mr. Weaver graduated from basic training in July and shipped off to Naval Air Station Pensacola, in Florida.
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He also began future soldier training this week and is slated to report to basic training in September.
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Of the 1,85033 recruits awaiting basic training, about 1,000 have had their visas expire, according to the reports.
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It's a win-win and all it starts with basic training for how to be an effective communicator.
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She and her team have seen similar results in studies with military service members going through basic training.
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In the early nineteen-eighties, rape was a serious problem at basic-training installations—especially in the Army.
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They admitted her, and she went on to win a coveted award for her performance during basic training.
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The temporary suspension at Parris Island also marks a pause to basic training for all female enlisted Marines.
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He had been slated to ship out to basic training in January 2017, but that also was delayed.
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No, officials said: We will not conscript you and order you off to basic training via text message.
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In some cases, they find parts of hospitals lacking even basic training and supplies to tackle the virus.
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New US Army recruits will be screened for the coronavirus upon arrival at basic training, according to Gen.
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Of the 1,800 recruits awaiting basic training, about 85033,000 have had their visas expire, according to the reports.
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The students were part of a basic training class for the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
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One idea the experts proposed is to add "the equivalent of skeet training" to basic training for all soldiers.
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In 2012, researchers observed the health of US Army recruits during the riot control portion of their basic training.
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Even after basic training, a long, hallowed culture of physical and verbal battering awaits Marines who join infantry units.
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Because of that, they couldn't get us to Basic (Training) together, even though we went at the same time.
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Like Presley, he did his basic training at Fort Hood, in Texas, although the two did not meet there.
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They are kept waiting, unable to work civilian jobs or go to basic training and start their military careers.
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She got a uniform without doing basic training, but the olive drab wasn't enough to make her fit in.
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In the spring of 21971, Snowden joined the Army reserves but, five months later, washed out of basic training.
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Daniel Harrison, who, three years ahead of Villanueva, was his company commander during part of that summer's basic training.
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Attending religious services during basic training was the only respite from the cleaning responsibilities that otherwise occupied Sunday mornings.
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But once his wife left for basic training, the life she and Morgan had envisioned seemed like a mirage.
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Think of boot camp or basic training, and the ever-present menace of the drill sergeant comes to mind.
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"I condemn the photo of Basic Training Class 18 in the strongest possible terms," Justice said in a statement.
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His work history was uneven Fields flunked out of basic training two years ago, the U.S. Army told Fox News.
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I enrolled my junior year of high school, and I went to basic training between my junior and senior year.
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She went off them abruptly for basic training, dropping them in a trash can outside the military entrance processing station.
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He attended basic training at a base in Lackland, Texas and for technical training at a base in Goodfellow, Texas.
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He still works out regularly to get ready for basic training — something he was originally scheduled to begin last November.
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He joined the Army Reserve out of school and trained to be a carpentry and masonry specialist after basic training.
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In January, the federal agency in charge of processing citizenship requests shut down its offices on three basic training facilities.
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He wrote his first novel, "Web of the City", while undergoing basic training for the army at Fort Benning, Georgia.
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This lack of fitness has led to the highest rates of injury in the Army basic training across the region.
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In a camp outside Kobanî, I attended a graduation ceremony for some five hundred conscripts, who'd just completed basic training.
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Every recruit is taught and then tested in the fundamentals of marksmanship before he or she advances in basic training.
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The AP reported that basic training has been delayed for discharged immigrant soldiers, which means they can't become naturalized citizens.
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In my community, we pile into cars and drive hundreds of miles to watch our children's graduation from basic training.
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In spring 2010, after two months of basic training, he arrived at Goodfellow Air Force Base near San Angelo, Tex.
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She works alongside policymakers and providers to identify system gaps; develop standards, basic training courses and tools; and implement assessments.
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The agency catches horses and turns them over for basic training to inmates at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility in Kansas.
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Ret. Adm. James Winnefled says basic training and maintenance is "stretched" on US warships overseas, contributing to fatal mistakes pic.twitter.
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We got an inside look at how United States Marine Corps recruits are exposed to tear gas during basic training.
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Every interaction I had with female Marines in basic training, and every reference to them, seemed intended to foster contempt.
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New soldiers will receive Greens in basic training by summer 2020 and it'll be entirely mandatory, service-wide, by 2028.
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Though they see the end of basic training naturalizations as a betrayal, just getting there after long delays is a victory.
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Ahead of the premiere, MTV will air a The Challenge: War of the Worlds: Basic Training launch special on Wednesday, Jan.
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BRUSSELS — In armies around the world, basic training is more than just a course in fitness, military organization and weapons skills.
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As Military Times pointed out on July 7, recruits must go to basic training within three years of signing their contract.
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The system takes one of the most basic training exercises, the plank, and turns it into a full-on gaming experience.
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When he arrived for basic training at Fort Jackson, S.C., he quickly became an outcast from the rest of the recruits.
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He worked on drug investigation assignments, served on a SWAT team and was a firearms instructor for recruits at basic training.
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The grounds stretch over 3,000 acres, and scores of recruits endure six months of basic training to become Border Patrol agents.
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Basic training happens here, at the Border Patrol Academy in Artesia, New Mexico, about 210 miles from the US-Mexico border.
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But the AP reported that basic training has been delayed for discharged immigrant soldiers, which means they can't become naturalized citizens.
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First and foremost, the corps was and remains the only military branch that largely separates men from women in basic training.
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The protracted process has indefinitely delayed basic training for many enlistees, making it more difficult for recruiters to meet their targets.
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After graduating from basic training, he reported to a naval station in Virginia in 1963, and later served in Rota, Spain.
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We got an inside look at how United States Marine Corps recruits are trained to fight with bayonets in basic training.
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It includes everything from developing long-range hypersonic missiles to ramping up basic training to improving the nutritional quality of MREs.
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We're guessing Cooper will be a popular figure at basic training, with plenty of stories to share with his new comrades.
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The pipeline includes the standard two months of basic training at the Navy&aposs only boot camp in Great Lakes, Illinois.
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"USCIS has decided to end the Naturalization at Basic Training Initiative," says a USCIS public affairs guidance document dated from Jan. 30.
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He went through basic training in Denver, Colorado, before heading to a mechanic school in Lincoln, Nebraska, to learn about wartime planes.
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About 360 of them are in the same precarious position as Cho: They've been inducted but have not yet started basic training.
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In some instances, noncitizen recruits could join the military for basic training, an unnamed Army recruiter told Task & Purpose on July 6.
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According to a statement from Canada's Department of National Defence, though, Minassian asked to leave 16 days into 13-week basic training.
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"I still fold my underwear the way that I was taught in basic training 41 years ago," Testoni says with a laugh.
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The memo recommends canceling the enlistment contracts for the recruits awaiting basic training and then halting the program altogether, the reports say.
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Xaver entered US Army basic training in March 2016, but left three months later before he completed training, CNN's Barbara Starr reported.
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My father found himself reporting to the Army induction center for basic training five days after he and my mother were married.
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In 1977, Mr. Santiago was 16 when he joined the Marines and went to basic training at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.
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Enrolling in the university allowed Zhu to enroll in basic training using the legal status he received by getting a student visa.
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Woodard joined the US Army at Fort Jackson in nearby Columbia, where more than 48,000 soldiers go through basic training each year.
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Then we piled into a bus in the dark and sped down the New Jersey Turnpike to Fort Dix for basic training.
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Then it was off to basic training, where the screaming drill instructors singled out the drafted guys for the harshest verbal abuse.
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Mr. Dubey, who is from India, joined the Reserve a year ago but still has not been allowed to attend basic training.
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The Air Force is changing the way its special-warfare airmen enter basic training and how it assigns them to career fields.
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The Army did not want to make a big deal of the first class of women to go through infantry basic training.
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The basic training for the dog begins with techniques specifically geared to each person's disability while the potential owner must master obedience commands.
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"Citizenship is important, yes, but I'd rather be at basic training more than anything and start the process already," he told BuzzFeed News.
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When they graduate basic training but don't gain their citizenship, they are unable to work legally in the US or leave the country.
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The program includes a powerful magnet for immigrants: a fast-track to citizenship that starts as soon as a recruit enters basic training.
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He later enlisted in the Coast Guard but said he was released during basic training with an "uncharacterized discharge" after a panic attack.
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Mr. McCoy also applies 15-year-old evaluation criteria in areas like basic training that are more narrowly defined in current credit recommendations.
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Therefore many IDF members actually live at home after their basic training and travel daily to the IDF base where they are assigned.
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Rights groups blame the problem on a lack of basic training on LGBTi rights for those making decisions about asylum claims and interpreters.
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Right, and then I think the changes between your life and his get even more stark...He breaks his legs in basic training.
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The film begins with basic training footage, in black and white, building to the moment when the soldiers go to the Western Front.
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"They called it a meatloaf without basic training, ham that didn't pass its physical, and the real reason war was hell," Wyman said.
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The dogs receive six months of basic training — a mixture of standard obedience training and exercises to teach them to identify live explosives.
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That changed for a time in 22017 when an initiative was passed that gave noncitizen enlistees the chance to naturalize after basic training.
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"They put my loan in past due the whole time I was in basic training and it ruined my credit," Ms. Wilde said.
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He flew in 44 missions over Germany, but the most lasting impact of his military service may have come from his basic training.
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" Mr. Fields, Colonel Johnson said, "was never awarded a military occupational skill nor was he assigned to a unit outside of basic training.
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The United States Army said that in 2015 he participated in basic training but failed to meet the standards required for another assignment.
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Until they are cleared, they cannot enter basic training or deploy overseas, leaving them stuck on bases if they are on active duty.
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It&aposs likely that Zhang was in basic training or recently graduated from it, showing the huge stakes for someone new to uniform.
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The individual has met all the standards for serving in the military and signed a contract but has not yet begun basic training.
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"A new robot recruit started his Washington Harbour basic training and introductions to the property yesterday afternoon," the spokesperson told Motherboard in an email.
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Each scalp I cast my eyes over looked like it belonged to a swarthy, eighteen-year-old US Marine, two-days into basic training.
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Last year, Mr. Minassian briefly joined the Canadian armed forces, quitting after 16 days of basic training, the Canadian Department of National Defense said.
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"As a result he was never awarded a military occupational skill nor was he assigned to a unit outside of basic training," Lt. Col.
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My other son that's in AIT [Advanced Individual Training] right now, before he went to basic training, he had to produce his birth certificate.
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"As a result he was never awarded a military occupational skill, nor was he assigned to a unit outside of basic training," she said.
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That's why women are only required to complete less than half of the number of push-ups as men to pass Army Basic Training.
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The brothers finished basic training together before completing the Ranger Indoctrination Program and joining the 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment in Fort Lewis, Washington.
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It was his Air Force mother — Kim Thomas, the wife of a lieutenant colonel, who informally adopted him after meeting him during basic training.
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McConville said basic training still continues, albeit with new, "extensive procedures in place" to prevent any recruit from bringing the virus into the military.
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"A 'Leaders First' or segregated basic training policy for black soldiers, Latino soldiers, or gay soldiers could never pass Constitutional muster," the revised complaint reads.
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After his basic training, Michael became so socially withdrawn and depressed that he started a process to try to get the army to release him.
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The program is supposed to allow those in it to apply for citizenship immediately after entering basic training, but recent changes have delayed that process.
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This came after the administration lengthened the service requirement for gaining citizenship to 2551 days — longer than the 25 weeks typically spent in basic training.
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Soldiers are prohibited from using tobacco during basic training, but the military still provides smoking pits or designated ship decks where they can light up.
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As Lithuania gears up for war, Italian photographer Mattia Vacca traveled to the Rukla forest to document basic training exercises for the country's new recruits.
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He was at basic training at Camp Croft in South Carolina when V-J Day came in August 1945, marking the end of the war.
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Though Bennett identifies Billingsley as a medic, he's actually a motor transport operator, but all soldiers and Guardsmen learn first aid skills during basic training.
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It was Reception Day, the moment when new cadets and cadet candidates sign their oaths of enlistment, become active duty soldiers and begin basic training.
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Induction Day, or "I-Day," marks the beginning of "Plebe Summer," a challenging six-week basic training program all future midshipmen are required to complete.
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"That basic training does not provide and show you how to be a correction officer who does that every day of your life," he said.
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He graduated from University High School and began basic training for the U.S. Army in 1957 at Fort Ord in Monterey, California, the obit read.
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The Q&A cited a basic training course, "NSA/CSS Intelligence Oversight Training," as the place where most people learn how to report a concern.
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The Counter-Terrorism Service, consisting of about 0003,000 soldiers, also demands continuous training for its soldiers, unlike the Iraqi army, which only requires basic training.
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A previous version of this article included an incorrect figure for the percentage of Army recruits who go through basic training at Fort Sill, Okla.
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She said she drilled each month with her reserve unit, which gave her an award, and had been awaiting a date to start basic training.
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Just getting accepted as a new agent is difficult; only 6 percent of applicants are accepted for basic training, which typically lasts about 20 weeks.
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These split activities — you in basic training and I in, well, I'm not sure where — were quite different from the first part of the show.
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I graduated from high school and was on a plane to basic training at Fort Benning for the Army National Guard a few days later.
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Beginning in April, candidates to become enlisted special warfare airmen will enter basic training in a newly created Air Force specialty code designed for them.
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While the force fell short of its annual recruiting goals, it saw the highest number of recruits in a decade start basic training last fall.
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Basic training classes considered "mission critical" continue, but 18 supervisory and advanced training classes for TSA workers have been nixed, according to a TSA spokesperson.
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For that reason, the memo recommends canceling the enlistment contracts for the recruits awaiting basic training and then halting the program altogether, the reports say.
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In "At the Academy Awards," Elkin describes his "first celebrity," which turns out to have been a general he saw during basic training in 1955.
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"As I said from the beginning, I condemn the photo of Basic Training Class 18 in the strongest possible terms," Justice said in the statement.
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"As I said from the beginning, I condemn the photo of Basic Training Class 18 in the strongest possible terms," Justice said in a statement.
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In the video, a group of service members with shaved heads, an indication they are undergoing basic training, are in a room that resembles a barracks.
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Illinois is home to the Navy's only basic training facility, located in Great Lakes, Illinois -- a facility where every enlisted sailor begins his or her service.
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After a candidate completes basic training, they may or may not be assigned to a specific mission, which they will spend even more time training for.
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Jarrell enlisted with the US Marine Corps this month and was scheduled to attend basic training next year, according to a statement released by the Marines.
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Jarrell enlisted with the US Marine Corps that month and was scheduled to attend basic training next year, according to a statement released by the Marines.
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"Last day in Minnesota before army basic training," he wrote, adding that he wished he could have made it to a recent Identity Evropa meet-up.
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Wiesbrook, whose 28-year-old son Joseph is in the Army, tells PEOPLE she created the group in September 2013 after Joseph went to basic training.
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Before they become United States Marines, all recruits have to graduate from the Marine Corps' 270-week basic training program, which tests them physically and psychologically.
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He encouraged his students to criticize one another harshly, in the hopes that they would become resilient, even hardened, as if the Workshop were basic training.
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That curriculum was an eight-day level-two training—so after people had taken the basic training—and started with these concepts of collateral and penance.
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"Some of our clients have finally emerged through the system and at least are doing basic training," said Donald Friedman, a Washington attorney with Perkins Coie.
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Fort Benning, where Army recruits complete basic training along with infantry or armor training, has only recently integrated women into its training programs for combat positions.
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The image, discovered in early December, shows the members of the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation Basic Training Class 18 with one arm raised.
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It said that political organizations still would be able to contact employees to receive basic training on using Facebook or for assistance on getting ads approved.
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The Q&A cited a basic training course called "NSA/CSS Intelligence Oversight Training" as the place where most people learn how to report a concern.
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The entire concept, the company told me, is meant as a springboard for kids to get some basic training for the adult-centric Lego Mindstorms robotics system.
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The female lieutenant and her male colleagues recently completed the intense 13-week Infantry Officer Training course after finishing basic training for the Marine Corps, said Capt.
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The current training program has small numbers of U.S.-selected fighters from various groups, transporting them across the border to Turkey for several days of basic training.
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Without that trip to basic training, I wouldn't have had the confidence to up and leave everything I ever knew like I did to start another journey.
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In 2015, he tried to join the U.S. military before flunking out after just four months of basic training, the Army and records confirmed to VICE News.
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Under Ernst and Gillibrand's bill, recruits in the delayed entry program would be required to undergo sexual assault prevention and response training before reporting to basic training.
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My grandparents have been married for 60 years, and started dating because my grandpa wrote my grandma a letter while he was away at military basic training.
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And although the Recruit Depot has experimented with integration before, the Marine Corps is the only military branch that separates male and female recruits during basic training.
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A hardened loser (Richard Gere) becomes a much better man through basic training in the Navy and the love of a good woman in Taylor Hackford's drama.
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Getting in requires the push-ups and shooting practice of basic training and an audition that can draw graduates of some of the country's finest music schools.
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I can't speak for a group so diverse as to include my 86-year-old grandfather and some private born in 1998 who is enduring basic training.
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The details: Between July 2017 and January 2018, men and children conscripted by the SDF were given basic training and deployed to active frontlines against their will.
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Esper intervened once more over the weekend after the Army considered freezing basic training for new recruits amid concern about virus spread, according to three defense officials.
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That same year, rather than wait for the draft, he enlisted in the Army but suffered a back injury during basic training and received a medical discharge.
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In his 1971 film "Basic Training," Mr. Wiseman followed a company of drafted and enlisted men at Fort Knox, Ky., as it is put through its paces.
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" ICE deportation officers get training on the use of warrants during basic training, he said, and receive refreshers on the policy "as part of their professional development.
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Now, his two teenage daughters have enlisted — Kelsey, age 19, is in the Air Force, while Courtney, age 18, leaves for basic training for the Army next week.
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Before being appointed to this position, Askew was already leading 1,502 cadets as the Regimental Commander of Cadet Basic Training II, according to the official U.S. Army release.
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When I asked whether it was possible to modify the way that students were selected and basic training methods, all of the masters at the table said 'no.
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All residents work with a case manager and a therapist, but because everybody has been through basic training, including yours truly, I demand a high degree of discipline.
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You will learn that 12 days after arriving at basic training in Columbia, South Carolina, Gavin Kroff was discharged for "medical reasons" and shipped back home to Minnesota.
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The man accused of driving the car, James Alex Fields Jr., joined the Army in August 2015 but left four months later after failing to pass basic training.
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A private first class in the New York National Guard, he had just graduated from boot camp after starting basic training in the fall, spokesman Eric Durr said.
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Krenn said that during basic training Johnson occasionally joked about white people, but did so in a light-hearted way and did not appear to harbor racial animosity.
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He joined the army at 18, graduated from basic training at the top of his class in 2004, and by 19 was serving his first tour in Iraq.
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But the tide has turned again, with Trump administration officials ending the program in early 2018 and shuttering naturalization offices at all its U.S. Army basic training sites.
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I took the basic training course at the Arizona Wildfire and Incident Management Academy, where I learned to cut fire line, read the weather and work in teams.
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Jacque got to experiment at being a homemaker and learned cooking tips from her new housemates while basic training got Don into the best shape of his life.
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He went through brutal basic training, was handed a Type 38 rifle, placed on a troop-transport ship, and sent off to the fearsome battles at the front.
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Some of their basic training that they would need to operate out there is very stretched sometimes because they're out there on the leading edge of the spear.
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" While other soldiers succeeded in completing basic training in the standard 10 weeks, Manning—who is slender and stands 227'28" tall—said that it took her six months.
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And freshman cadets must report for duty early in the summer and undergo intensive, miserable-sounding basic training known as Beast Barracks, at which they learn the military lifestyle.
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Like many DREAMers in the military, Medeiros is counting his remaining months under protected status, calculating whether it will be long enough to go to basic training and serve.
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Two years ago, nine scholars working in six countries tested six programs that gave livestock (mostly goats but some chickens) plus some basic training and support to the poor.
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Colorado Springs, Colorado (CNN)Jordan Lively, a specialist in the US Army, hated using the women's facilities at basic training and wearing the cinched top of a woman's uniform.
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We were going to be drafted, go to basic training, and then they'll send us to the West Bank and we'll say no, and then we'll go to jail.
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Considered the most formidable time in a military career, basic training leaves those lasting impressions and sets the standard for your first real duty station and those to follow.
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"It occurred to me when seeing the rate of fatalities and people around, that with with a few supplies and basic training, they could be saving lives," he says.
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The military affairs department said on Friday that one cadet in the basic training class and two correctional academy trainers — one of whom took the picture — had been fired.
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Under the new policy, active duty recruits have to complete all necessary security and background checks, complete basic training, and serve for at least 180 consecutive days among other requirements.
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In the current training program, the U.S. has selected small numbers of fighters from various groups and transported them across the border to Turkey for several days of basic training.
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Booker enlisted in the Army in 2014 and was scheduled to begin basic training in April of that year, Army spokesman Wayne Hall said at the time of Booker's arrest.
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Wearing a beard soon meant that whatever one was doing must be of sufficient importance to buck the rule by which every other soldier had been governed since basic training.
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"Before receiving orders to basic training, applicants must clear a thorough background check that includes screenings within the Department of Defense, Department of Justice and the Intelligence Community," Warner wrote.
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It was a labor of love: neither Piagentini or Sanino had worked with wood before, and only had basic training when they left everything behind to launch the business together.
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Yes, but: As many of the immigrant recruits and reservists had not yet gone through their basic training, according to the AP, they had not yet earned qualification for citizenship.
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Some primates can do similar tasks, although they need a lot of basic training to get up to speed before they can use the experimental apparatus, called a key box.
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The report follows recent policy changes under the Trump administration that have led the armed forces to beef up security checks of foreign-born recruits before they reach basic training.
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New US Army recruits arriving at basic training will have their temperatures taken and be asked if they are experiencing other flu-like symptoms — including coughing, sore throat, and fatigue.
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Later, she started a culture center at Fort Jackson devoted to the study of music and art, and when Johns finished his basic training, she helped get him transferred there.
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I joined the Army in late 2011, and I was fortunate to have a wonderful drill sergeant, who made me feel comfortable during basic training and didn't treat me differently.
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The enhanced background checks that cause long delays for recruits and endanger their immigration status began under the Obama administration, but they were still able to be naturalized after basic training.
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The instructor at the center of the incident is no longer assigned to SEAL basic training command, but Lawrence declined to say whether he remained in one of the elite teams.
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As any soldier who's gone through basic training knows, should a soldier lose their knife, they may use a defibrillator to incapacitate the enemy while jumping out of a moving jet.
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Esper met with the leaders of the armed services on Monday to discuss the issue, ultimately deciding to continue basic training while taking precautionary measures, one of the defense officials said.
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Andrea Dew Steele, the organization's president and founder, describes Emerge as "the beginning of the food chain," performing basic training for women, many of them seeking office for the first time.
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Your roommate heard from a guy in another unit who swears up and down that when his cousin went through basic training, his roommate had been doing funny stuff with ether.
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There's a good chance you're going to tech school, AIT, or whatever your branch of service calls career training with some of the guys or gals from your basic training unit.
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First basic training, then on to being assigned to a squad, all while working to achieve excellence in their military craft and becoming a member of a team with a mission.
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Once the selected applicants become astronaut candidates, they go through intensive training: basic training in spacecraft systems, what a spacewalk might be like, how to work with robotics and tackling mission assignments.
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When Chipotle's leaders realized that, they instantly shifted their priorities to making sure restaurant employees revisited their basic training, from knowing how to identify perfectly cooked chicken to rolling the perfect burrito.
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The other members of Jazz's squad include RaeLynn's husband, Josh Davis, who is currently away at basic training, and the couple's Chihuahua, Dolly, who is named after music legend Dolly Parton, obviously.
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In the meantime, my son had completed basic training, completed his specialty training, and reported to his unit, a full-fledged soldier — but no longer one eligible to be a U.S. citizen.
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At basic training, they learn the usual subjects including the mission, vision, core values, history and priorities of the Air Force, as well as drill and ceremony, field training and joint warfare.
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Since the Korean War, the military has altered basic training to help soldiers overcome existing norms of violence, desensitise them to the acts they might have to commit, and reflexively shoot upon cue.
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Sue Rahr, executive director of the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission, which provides basic training to police officers, said on Monday it's most critical how officers actually deploy the newly allowed tools.
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In basic training, a white boy from rural Alabama shared that he had never seen a black person before, and now he not only knew black people, but had made friends with them.
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He received an honorable discharge in 2008, and went to work for Customs and Border Protection in 2012, earning a spot as a squad leader at the agency's basic training academy in Georgia.
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Well, being a reservist means undergoing basic training, then returning to civilian life -- and spending a minimum of one weekend a month and two weeks per year training to keep your skills sharp.
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In fact, the military already has an existing policy of giving everyone an MMR dose when they come into basic training because, years ago, they had a similar problem with outbreaks, Lewnard said.
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About 85033,800 recruits were awaiting basic training, 1,000 of which had had their visas expire and were at risk of deportation if their enlistment contracts were canceled, according to reports at the time.
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Advocates of the MAVNI program worry that the elimination of naturalization after basic training could mean reverting to an expensive, logistical nightmare of chasing service members around war zones to process their citizenship applications.
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For the lucky few who do get processed, gaining their citizenship is not the solemn occasion it used to be, when they swore the pledge of allegiance at their basic training graduation, in uniform.
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When military recruits go through basic training, they are told that they are more likely to kill themselves after their time in the military is over than they are to be killed in combat.
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Large numbers of them resent Rojava's imposition of obligatory nine-month military service for all men aged 18 to 30, including 40 days of basic training that is heavy on the PKK's ideological indoctrination.
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Instructors started getting basic training in breathwork about two years ago when the company introduced a class called HeadStrong, which blends a high-intensity workout with so-called mindful movement and concludes with breathing.
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Typically, participants in the program are sworn in as citizens after completing basic training, without having to first obtain a green card or permanent residency, making the program the quickest path to citizenship available.
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He enlisted in the Army in 2015, seeing it as an honorable way to earn his citizenship, and completed the required security screenings last year, but has not been called to start basic training.
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While similar programs existed when I completed U.S. Army basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri in 2002, they have become more engaging and sophisticated than previous iterations, and these investments appear to be working.
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The military affairs department said this month that one cadet in the basic training class and two correctional academy trainers — one of whom took the picture — had been fired, and that an investigation was underway.
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All sailors must go through the program before being selected to take part in SEAL basic training, a six-month program so grueling that 75% of candidates drop out by the end of the first month.
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The U.S. Marine Corps must fully integrate women into its basic training courses and ensure that its job titles reflect that all combat roles will be open to women, says Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus.
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"He and his buddy caught a train ride out to Fort Huachuca, Arizona, which is where they did the basic training for Colored Troops and colored soldiers that they were called at the time," she said.
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Here's a look at the suspect's background: A police officer, mechanic and Vietnam veteran DeAngelo graduated from basic training at the Naval Training Center in San Diego, California in December 1964, according to Navy Public Affairs.
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Top Army officials told The Associated Press that the existing physical fitness tests employed by the military branch during basic training do not prepare soldiers adequately for the physical challenges they may encounter on the battlefield.
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The Marine Corps is the only branch of the armed services that still segregates basic training by gender; in 2014, nearly eight per cent of female marines reported having been sexually assaulted within the previous year.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The 25-year-old former U.S. Army reservist who shot dead five Dallas policemen in a racially motivated sniper attack was a poor marksman during basic training, a soldier who served with him said.
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Krenn, who is white, remembered Johnson as an affable if slightly disheveled soldier who got along with his peers of all races during nine weeks of basic training at the Fort Sill, Oklahoma, base in 2009.
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Goldsmith had been staying with Acheson — the pair had graduated from basic training tied at the top of their class — and Acheson's then-wife at a rented house about 303 miles off-base in Hinesville, Georgia.
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After basic training, the only time I ever pointed and fired one was on a trip back to Vietnam in 2004 to help make a documentary film about a veteran — me — returning to the war theater.
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The Defense Department ended the program in 2016, citing security concerns, and imposed strict new screening on thousands of recruits who had already signed enlistment contracts for the program but had not yet begun basic training.
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When Alejandro Villanueva, the Pittsburgh Steelers' starting left tackle, arrived at West Point for cadet basic training in the summer of 2006, he already stood out — and not just because he was bigger than anyone else.
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His fate is in stark contrast to that of US recruits, who can refuse to continue their basic training or fail physical tests and are likely to be processed out of the service without lasting repercussions.
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It said, for example, that Mr. Snowden had lied about having earned a high school equivalency diploma and having washed out of Army basic training because of broken legs, when he really just had shin splints.
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Krulak and his team came up with what they called the transformation process, which overhauled boot camp to incorporate an agenda based on the Marines' ''core values'' — honor, courage, commitment — into every aspect of basic training.
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A few weeks later, he used a forged birth certificate to enlist in the Army and, during basic training, lost his virginity (what was left of it, at least) with a prostitute who was in her 40s.
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In other words, Kennedy's assertion that "the stamina and strength which the defense of liberty requires are not the product of a few weeks' basic training or a month's conditioning" doesn't hold up to even basic scrutiny.
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A new program, which began in Ohio and is now spreading nationally, provides armed schoolteachers with extraordinary training—far more than the basic training needed for law-abiding citizens to obtain a general permit for concealed carry.
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"So many times, I would knock and a child would come to the door — in my eyes, a child — and we'd get to talking and this kid would be on his way to basic training," he remembered.
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Peña won't be able to officially enlist and get deployed because he's employed by the Cardinals, with his contract extending into 2017, but there are other ways for him to help after going through basic training. 20003.
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All of those correctional cadets from the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation Basic Training Class 18 who were photographed apparently giving a Nazi salute will be fired, thanks to the decision by West Virginia Gov.
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In many places, like the state of Pennsylvania, the only requirements are to be a legal adult with no felony convictions who has lived in the county for one year and to complete a basic training course.
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He entered the Army in 1953, and after infantry basic training was assigned to the Judge Advocate General's Corps based in Paris, where he assisted in the settlement of claims made by French nationals against the Army.
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Like their coworkers in the Brooklyn warehouses, B&H's employees in Midtown also note that they lack basic training to handle utility vehicles, meant to move large or heavy loads, that are often kept in poor condition.
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Based on the report, virtually no part of Baltimore's police force worked as a modern police department should — from arrests to stops to use of force to basic training, oversight, accountability, and basically everything was deeply flawed.
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Arik Smith, a sophomore linebacker from Bowie, Md., said there is camaraderie — sometimes unspoken — among prep school graduates when they arrive at the academy for Beast Barracks, the six-week cadet basic training that overlaps with football practice.
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The federal agency in charge of processing citizenship shuttered all of its offices at US Army basic training locations, putting up another roadblock for immigrant recruits who were promised a fast track to citizenship in return for their service.
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Without the usual promise of gaining citizenship after basic training, however, these recruits "are unauthorized immigrants as soon as they enter the gates," said Margaret Stock, a retired Army officer and an immigration attorney who designed the recruitment program.
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There, Perkins was waiting to meet his future owner and best buddy, having already gone through a year and a half of basic training, so they could begin working on a relationship that catered to LanDan Olivia's specific needs.
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While the Pentagon told the Times that there had been "some delays" in the extensive vetting process, the holdups have left about 4,300 people in the Army alone unable to enter basic training or deploy, according to the report.
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The young Iraqi policeman is less a superhuman marksman and more a courageous young man doing his job — and following his training: Ali said it had been his dream to become a sniper since he joined police basic training.
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At Fort Sill, where 16 percent of Army recruits go through basic training and soldiers learn long-range artillery maneuvers, Futures Command leaders will consult directly with troops about how to update artillery pieces to improve speed and range.
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"As we are a people's army, a lot of the population has at least undergone basic training and knows how to handle and conduct themselves with a weapon," said Simon Perry, a criminologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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When Desmond arrives at basic training, he is introduced to a platoon whose composition — one guy from Brooklyn, another from Texas, a Pole, an Italian, a pretty boy and a hothead — would have looked corny back in the '40s.
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In a conference call with reporters on Tuesday, James Moore, a retired SEALs chief who is currently deputy operations officer for the Naval Special Warfare Basic Training Command, said there was still no explanation of what had gone wrong.
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We need a rapid development of affordable, simple diagnostics that can be used by health workers with basic training and can deliver results in a rural clinic where a child with a temperature of 104 degrees needs urgent treatment.
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The federal agency in charge of processing citizenship has shuttered all of its offices at US Army basic training locations, putting up another roadblock for immigrant recruits who were promised a fast track to citizenship in return for their service.
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Since the 1990s, the Air Force has mandated a two-hour budgeting course during basic training, as well as a four-to-six hour class on more in-depth budgeting once servicemen and servicewomen get to their first duty station.
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This can severely derail careers just as they're taking off, and there are exemptions for top artists, musicians, and sports players, who don't need to serve at a military base although they must still complete four weeks of basic training.
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Armed with only some basic training advice from a friend—and barely enough upper body strength to lift a barbell—he set off for the gym, kicking off a remarkable, 212-pound muscle transformation that would make Master Chief proud.
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What follows thus turns into a kind of classic basic-training yarn, played out against the backdrop of various fires that the group has to battle -- first to prove its worth, later as a badge of that hard-won right.
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To the Editor: "Basic Training for a Surgeon's Hands" (Science Times, June 4) provides a powerful argument for making sure that our children have ample opportunities to do more than sit in front of screens, whether at home or at school.
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To hear Young tell it, his time as a Marine, from basic training to counseling newbies, ruined him and made him, in the sense that it made him determined to become something other than what the corps wanted him to be.
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Chen witnesses the trial of his sergeant for negligent homicide, and flashbacks from his teenage life: hanging out with friends in New York's Chinatown, making dinner with his mother in the kitchen, arriving for basic training full of patriotism and zeal.
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The academy in which our heroines go about their basic training is run entirely by women, including General Sarah Alder (Lyne Renee), the highest-ranking officer in the Armed Forces who cut the deal with the U.S. government 300 years prior.
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During basic training at Fort Jackson in South Carolina, I confessed to my bunkmate Aaron Frick — a tall white Coloradan who converted to Hinduism sometime before enlisting — that the picture of the guy in my locker wasn't of a friend.
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The 218-year-old track champion from North Carolina could throw a 21980-pound hammer more than 214 meters while on the team at East Carolina University, and showed up at basic training in better shape than many of the men.
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The government has provided some basic training and weapons for a few hundred volunteer guards near mosques and other meeting places but many fear that the protection, which covers only some of the city's more than 400 Shi'ite mosques, is insufficient.
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A recruit's world at Marine Corps boot camp is relegated to his or her assigned platoon, so this temporary change does not have female recruits living alongside their male counterparts in the barracks — much like basic training in the Army.
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Olympic and Asian Games medalists have been allowed to complete a few weeks of basic training and return to their athletic careers, while the South Korean air force used to have an elite StarCraft team to keep the country's top gamers in action.
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A police vehicle is seen parked at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, on April 8, 2016 In April 2012, Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio was asked to house unaccompanied children in empty dormitories previously used for basic training recruits.
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Closing the offices means the end of expedited citizenship for recruits immediately after they complete basic training, the key element of the popular Military Accessions Vital to National Interest program, or MAVNI, which has naturalized more than 10,400 military service members since 2009.
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The biggest revelation here is how Captain Marvel will explore Danvers' past: coming home clearly seems to stir up some memories, and there are a bunch of scenes of her childhood and basic training, which help inform the hero she will become.
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Washington (CNN)The US Marine Corps said Monday that it is "temporarily suspending the shipping of new recruits" to Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island in South Carolina, where some 50% of enlisted Marines receive their basic training, due to novel coronavirus concerns.
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H.J. Zhu, a Chinese national who signed an enlistment contract in January 2016, said that he has been calling his recruiter constantly because his student visa expires in two months and he has yet to receive a date to report for basic training.
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She sent away for his records and received back his DD Form 214 (Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty) showing that he had been honorably discharged in 1968 for being medically unsuitable for duty before he even finished basic training.
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It was my first day of basic training at Fort Jackson, S.C., in a platoon that couldn't have been more diverse, a cross section of the United States, from Appalachian moonshiners to Bronx bad boys who had never been out of the city.
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The report summarized him as "a low-level Yemeni militant who traveled to Afghanistan in mid-2001, received basic training at an Al Qaeda camp, and served on the front lines before 9/11" in the Taliban's civil war against the Northern Alliance.
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Cooper, who infamously quit his father's beloved Playboy to start his own media empire, has already joined the Air Force after recently abandoning his plans to launch a digital content platform for millennials ... and this week he left for basic training overseas.
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When the Army, Navy and Air Force place men and women alongside one another right from basic training, women exist as individuals and colleagues, not as an abstract, setting the tone for how men view female colleagues for the rest of their careers.
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Headlines, including from The New York Times, heralded that the Marine Corps was finally integrating female and male Marines at boot camp — a move that comes years after the Army, Navy and Air Force had fully integrated their basic training for recruits.
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When he was in basic training at Fort Jackson in South Carolina in 1951, he became friendly with a woman named Augusta Burch, who was in charge of the base's service club, where soldiers would go to listen to records and write letters.
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Policing: For decades, the Department of Justice has taken the lead in oversight of local police — both through basic training and grant programs, and through investigations and lawsuits against police departments accused of showing a "pattern and practice" of depriving residents of their civil rights.
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Like all ships deployed abroad, the minesweepers operate on a cycle: a planned ship maintenance phase, followed by basic training when the crew practices finding and disarming dummy mines, and finally underway periods, which include shows of force and joint exercises with allied navies.
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" The report's executive summary also accused Mr. Snowden of claiming that he had left Army basic training earlier in his career because of broken legs, as The Guardian reported when Mr. Snowden first came forward, "when in fact he washed out because of shin splints.
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After an attempt to join the special forces—he crashes out after breaking both legs in basic training—he gravitates to the intelligence world, where he discovers that the agency he works for has transformed the internet into the opposite of the playground he idealized.
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Two years before joining the Army, Sergeant Bergdahl had washed out of Coast Guard basic training for mental health and other reasons, and a Coast Guard physician said he should be cleared by a psychiatrist before being allowed to re-enlist in the military.
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After the prep course, the Air Force looks at each candidate's performance at basic training and the prep course, as well as candidates' preferences, and then steers them into either the Special Tactics and Guardian Angel course of initial entry, or the TACP course.
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For the civilians of the world out there, recycling means moving a basic trainee into a previous week of training, forcing the recruit to go back and re-do the weeks of training he or she already did, and extending basic training by that long.
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Virginia Matamoros, the director of Cusco Female Penitentiary, said that the prison offered basic training in sewing, weaving, baking and gardening to all new inmates with the hope that they can then move on to working with companies that can prepare them for release.
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We follow Dietz's progress through basic training where, as in books like Heinlein's Starship Troopers, Joe Haldeman's The Forever War, and John Scalzi's Old Man's War, trainees are pushed until they break, and are then rebuilt to obey orders and fight for whatever values they're told.
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Since then 110,000 immigrants hoping to serve in the US military have become naturalized citizens through the program which was suspended last September amidst concerns that the Defense Department could not properly vet those who were volunteering for basic training with the promise of fast-track citizenship.
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Sikh soldiers have been fighting for years to ease the process of gaining religious accommodations, including three soldiers who sued last year to get an answer to their requests before they started basic training and a decorated captain who sued to make his temporary accommodation permanent.
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" Moore's amendment would also require the secretary to take steps to protect recruits whose visas expire after they enlist but before they begin basic training, as well as requiring a report on how to ensure those recruits aren't deported and are able to serve without "undue delay.
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During basic training, an entire line of soldiers in front of him was killed during a "live-fire" drill, because the machine guns were pointed too low as they crawled under barbed wire, an event not very comforting to my dad who was next to go.
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He did not appear to have seen combat, given that his awards did not include a combat action or infantryman's badge, but he would have undergone 10 weeks of basic training in which he learned basic combat skills and how to handle and fire automatic weapons.
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As a result, roughly 1,000 foreign-born recruits who've signed their enlistment contracts but have yet to be told to report to basic training may face deportation if their permission to be in the country expires, according to an internal Pentagon memo first reported by the Washington Post.
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In response to the policy, the American Civil Liberties Union and the law firm Latham & Watkins LLP filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court this June on behalf of all green card holders who enlisted in the military but had not been permitted to attend basic training.
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When the film shifts to basic training, the setup isn't that different from Full Metal Jacket—here, Vince Vaughn plays the bullying, sarcastic sergeant—and soon Doss is running afoul of those around him, arguing that he wants to serve as an Army medic on the front lines.
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Read more: This US Army recruit got his first haircut in 15 years before shipping out to basic training, and donated 150 inches of hair to charityPresident Donald Trump first announced that active-duty, Reserve and National Guard forces would begin deploying to the border in April 2018.
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An award-winning war photographer for The Times followed a handful of female recruits as they went through basic training at Parris Island, S.C. Perspective: In an Op-Ed, a woman who spent 21905 years in the Marines says that the corps still has lower expectations for female recruits.
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MIAMI — Thousands of immigrants who joined the United States military with promises of a fast track to citizenship are stuck in limbo as new screening measures have taken far longer than expected, leaving some military members around the nation unable to become citizens or even go to basic training.
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Not only is Hawn a complete howl as her privileged New York princess comically careens through basic training, she also deftly handles the serious fare when faced with the toxically masculine realities of a less woke era (Available to stream via rent or purchase on Amazon Prime, Fandango Now and Vudu).
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While many of us can safely walk away from basic training saying to ourselves, "Well, at least no one saw that," gaining a funny nickname from your training instructors is the kind of thing that could follow you your whole career — and it's not cool unless it's a call sign.
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"Training people on active shooters is actually reducing the options and types of options that people need in order to effectively address many life-threatening situations," Dorn said: For example, teachers should receive basic training on how to approach a student who is threatening to kill themselves, especially if they are armed.
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DoD is implementing programs which are currently being provided at very beginning of the military life-cycle-- basic training recruiting units-- in which contracted professional trainers engage our recruits on tough topics such as military sexual assault in an effort to promote integrity and awareness from the outset of their military careers.
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Born in Newark in 1933, a time and place whose influence would be felt throughout his body of work, Roth embarked on a writing career after spending time at Bucknell University, the University of Chicago, and a brief stint in the Army that ended when he sustained a back injury during basic training.
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At the beginning of my six-week basic training ordeal at San Antonio's Lackland Air Force Base in 22019, our training instructor presented us with a small manual outlying the proper operation and maintenance of the M-16 rifle – with which we were required to become familiar and expertly qualified in demonstrating its fire power.
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The Department of Defense is implementing programs which are currently being provided at very beginning of the military life-cycle-- basic training recruiting units-- in which contracted professional trainers engage our recruits on tough topics such as military sexual assault in an effort to promote integrity and awareness from the outset of their military careers.
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Yehoshua Kenaz, "Infiltration," an astonishing novel by a great Israeli master who ought to be better known, this one set in an army basic training camp populated by recruits all disabled in one way or another; amidst the diamond-sharp dialogue, the horny sweat and sarcasm, a subtle allegory about the perennially vexed issue of strength and Jewishness.
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Though I was clearly too old to serve, I was among those recruited for basic training about a half-hour into "Seeing You," the interactive performance piece in the meatpacking district, set in Hoboken during World War II. What were you doing as I was preparing to defend our embattled nation and learning to hate on cue?
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A classically trained trumpeter who also likes jazz trumpeters such as Chet Baker and Lee Morgan, Sergeant Uhl said he joined the Army as a bugler and served in basic training in a battalion called Company B. "So I was literally the boogie-woogie bugle boy of Company B," he said, referring to the popular World War II song.
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His military file claims he identified himself as a willing terrorist against the US, acknowledged he was a member of a terrorist support entity in Yemen, identified as a sub-commander on the front lines, participated in hostilities against US and Coalition forces at Bagram and Tora Bora, and received basic training and advanced al Qaeda artillery training in Afghanistan.
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Then in a July memo to Defense Secretary James MattisJames Norman MattisOnly Donald Trump has a policy for Afghanistan New Pentagon report blames Trump troop withdrawal for ISIS surge in Iraq and Syria Mattis returns to board of General Dynamics MORE, personnel and intelligence officials recommended canceling the enlistment contracts for the recruits awaiting basic training and then halting the program altogether.
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Ms. Cunningham, who is just a few weeks away from placing her feet on the painted yellow footprints at basic training that are the symbolic first step in becoming a Marine, said that while she had often been torn about how to respond to the online harassment, she had decided that the best response would be to become the best Marine possible.
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