U.S. Army Recruits and Drill Sgt's with the New Jersey National Guard’s Recruit Sustainment Program conduct RSP operations at the National Guard Training Center in Sea Girt, N.J., Jan 11, 2025. The Recruit Sustainment Program is a program of the United States Army National Guard designed to introduce new recruits to the fundamentals of the U.S. Army before they leave for Basic Combat Training and Advanced Individual Training. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Seth Cohen)

Pfc. Haley A. Devlin, Platoon 4040, Oscar Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, earned the highest combined physical fitness test and combat fitness test score for her company. Devlin, from Hannover, Mass., earned 600 out of 600 points. . (Photo by Cpl. Octavia Davis)

Master Chief Petty Officer Michael P. Leavitt, the 11th Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard, meets with Coast Guard recruits from Bravo Company 189 at Training Center Cape May Dec. 3, 2013. Leavitt, the Coast Guard's senior enlisted member, discussed how to be successful with the future Coast Guardsmen as part of a two-day visit to the Coast Guard's only enlisted basic training facility. Coast Guard photo by Seaman Jennifer Nease.

U.S. Army Drill Sergeant Academy Course Graduation

U.S. Army Drill Sergeant Academy Course Graduation

Next chapter in scanning pictures of my brother's service in the US Army during the Vietnam war. I have pictures of Terry's Basic Training, Military Police AIT and Infantry Branch Officer's Candidate School.

Next chapter in scanning pictures of my brother's service in the US Army during the Vietnam war. I have pictures of Terry's Basic Training, Military Police AIT and Infantry Branch Officer's Candidate School.

U.S. Army Drill Sergeant Academy Course Graduation

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Master Chief Petty Officer Michael P. Leavitt, the 11th Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard, meets with recruits of Charlie Company 189 following their physical fitness assessment at Training Center Cape May, N.J., Dec. 4, 2013. Leavitt, the Coast Guard's senior enlisted member, met with the future Coast Guardsmen as part of a two-day visit to the Coast Guard's only enlisted basic training facility. Coast Guard photo by Seaman Jennifer Nease.

Fort Jackson is the largest and most active Initial Entry Training Center in the U.S. Army, training 50 percent of all Soldiers and 70 percent of the women entering the Army each year.

Master Chief Petty Officer Michael P. Leavitt, the 11th Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard, tours Bruckenthal Hall, the housing for unaccompanied or single personnel stationed at Training Center Cape May, N.J., which will undergo an $800,000 rehabilitation project in fiscal year 2014, Dec. 3, 2013. Leavitt, the Coast Guard's senior enlisted member, toured Bruckenthal Hall with his wife Debbie as part of a two-day visit to the Coast Guard's only enlisted basic training facility. Coast Guard photo by Seaman Jennifer Nease.

Ft. Bliss, TX - Drill Sargent Butler - Aug. 1985

Pfc. Cailin Cinnamon (in color) marches behind Drill Sgt. (Staff Sgt.) Michael Deserio as 1st Platoon arrives at the mock village they are to defend, July 14, 2017. (Photo Credit: Cindy McIntyre, Fort Sill Tribune)

Middle row, Left: the ever popular "Ammo Detail" loading 20 round magazines with stripper clips til your hand got raw

Performed with live ammuniton and fixed bayonets, at a very fast pace.

Tom Malhoney flaunting the rules

U.S. Army Drill Sergeant Academy Course Graduation

1969 First Platoon. Harmony Church. Preparing for Viet Nam.

The Drill Sergeant Academy hosted its first fiscal year 2018 graduation ceremony for members of Drill Sergeant Course class 001-18, June 22. Soldiers in the course spent weeks of learning how to inspire, motivate and mentor new Soldiers in Basic Combat Training. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Spc. Tynisha L. Daniel / released)

U.S. Army Soldiers currently in Initial Entry Training (IET) at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, return home for the holidays during Holiday Block Leave on December 18 and 19, 2018. Drill sergeants and other cadre assisted and supervised departure operations from Fort Jackson; over 5,000 trainees left from multiple main-transportation hubs in the southeast, including Columbia and Charlotte airports, and an Amtrak stations. (U.S. Army National Guard Photo by Staff Sgt. Roby Di Giovine, South Carolina National Guard)

Tech. Sgt. Chananyah Stuart takes notes while reviewing a junior instructor's training techniques. As one of the 323rd Training Squadron's senior military training instructors, Stuart also trains NCOs to be military training instructors. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Jeffrey Allen)

Platoon 4040, Oscar Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, graduated Dec. 06, 2013. (Photo by Cpl. Octavia Davis)

Rct. Epshane Porter, Platoon 1005, Alpha Company, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, climbs over a Confidence Course obstacle Nov. 4, 2014, on Parris Island, S.C. The course, comprised of 15 obstacles designed to help Marine Corps recruits build confidence by overcoming physical challenges, closely resembles the original version built in 1958. Porter, 19, from Union, N.J., is scheduled to graduate Jan. 9, 2015. Parris Island has been the site of Marine Corps recruit training since Nov. 1, 1915. Today, approximately 20,000 recruits come to Parris Island annually for the chance to become United States Marines by enduring 13 weeks of rigorous, transformative training. Parris Island is home to entry-level enlisted training for 50 percent of males and 100 percent of females in the Marine Corps. (Photo by Cpl. Jennifer Schubert)

I believe we had seven toilet seats setting side-by-side. Consequently, that is where all of the gossiping took place.

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U.S. Army Drill Sergeant Academy Course Graduation