{"id":80601,"date":"2018-07-16T09:40:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T13:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80601"},"modified":"2018-07-16T09:40:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T13:40:30","slug":"trainees-await-infantry-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80601","title":{"rendered":"Trainees await infantry training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=80602\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-80602\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Drill_Sergeant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"146\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-80602\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2018\/07\/13\/400-infantry-hopefuls-are-stuck-in-reception-battalion-at-fort-benning\/\">Army Times<\/a>, there are more than 400 trainees waiting for slots to open in infantry basic combat training companies. Traditionally, Summer months following high school graduation, Fort Benning, Georgia has been flooded with trainees;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Generally, trainees spend a week or two at a reception battalion before reporting to training, but during the summer, it can take as long as three. The Army\u2019s end strength increase, on its second year, contributed to the current \u201csummer surge,\u201d [spokesman Benjamin] Garrett said.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Benning has also been overbooked, he added, a common practice that allows an overflow of recruits booked in each training cycle, anticipating that some of them will be delayed or drop out before they arrive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegardless of the number of personnel preparing from their basic training company pick-up date, the Reception Battalion Cadre are well equipped and organized for their mission to prepare the personnel for their basic training class,\u201d Garrett said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s good news, actually, since recruiters are able to keep up with the increase in combat units after years of manpower cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to TSO for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Army Times, there are more than 400 trainees waiting for slots to open &hellip; <a title=\"Trainees await infantry training\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80601\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trainees await infantry training<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}