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Duty Station Spotlight: Fort Benning, GA
Fort Benning. Picture enormous trees, perpetually green, draped with Spanish moss. But don’t picture that all over Fort Benning, the Spanish moss is only at the entrance of the Lumpkin access point. A few months ago, I wrote a post about my impression of Ft Bragg, NC, and the hotspots you can’t miss when you’re there.…
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When Will I Hear from My Soldier at Army Basic Training?
Very few people are familiar with the level of patience required to wait for a letter from boot camp. Hollywood Walk of Fame status patience. Phone calls are possibly even harder to wait for. And yet year after year, thousands of American families, spouses, parents, boyfriends, girlfriends, etc. find themselves checking the mail constantly and…
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Can I Visit my Soldier at Army Basic Training?
It’s hard enough saying goodbye to your loved one. But when the question of if you’ll ever see them again begins to swirl in your mind…it can be tough not to worry. You will definitely see them again. Will you get to see them while they are training at bootcamp? The most simple, most likely answer is:…
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What to Expect at Army Basic Training Graduation Day
This is one of the most defining moments in your soldier’s career. Even years down the road, when the freshness of his blues uniform has faded and the creases are gone, the effects of the day won’t have changed a bit. Becoming a US soldier is an enormous accomplishment, mentally and physically. This is the day where your soldier…
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Army Basic Training: Phone Call Rules
I remember as a kid riding past one of the Basic training areas on Ft. Knox (back when there was a bootcamp there) and seeing lines of soldiers standing at a series of pay phones. It was a moving image of just how much the soldiers wanted to check in with home. They would stand and stand and stand…