Watching Documentary on Fort benning.

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3. I think "boot camp" was an informal name, even in my day (1966)

My induction class was sent to Ft Knox for "Basic Combat Training", but they couldn't find a class opening for us. They flew us to El Paso to our BCT class at Ft Bliss. Big improvement: Ft Bliss had cinder-block barracks with cement floors (no wax), not like Ft Knox's WW2 tinder boxes coated in tons of buffered floor wax as an accellerant. Other improvements: Our area of Ft Bliss was flat, no freaking hills to run up and down. And, of course, it was a DRY heat!

Basic was only 8 weeks, then on to IAT (Individual Advanced Training?) to learn an MOS. I went to Ft Polk (big suck) for 11B, where the Army made me into a clerk, go figure. Ft Polk had the WW2 tinder-box barracks, and it was NOT a dry heat.

Ft Bliss was so nice, I almost thought I got drafted into the Air Force.