Narrator: Is the shark attack. Drill sergeant: Get up there! Get up there! Narrator: A mandatory rite of passage for every future US Army soldier on day one of basic training. More from Boot Camp ...

New medical screenings and protocols are changing the way basic training is conducted. Every year about 69,000 soldiers arrive at Fort Benning, where future infantry and armor soldiers go through ...

graduated from Western Michigan University in 1955 as an ROTC Distinguished Military Graduate and accepted a Regular Army commission. After basic officer and airborne training at Ft Benning, Georgia, ...