Army bootcamp5/31/2023 ![]() Dipping canteen cups into a barrel of blue Gatorade, they pass under an archway into the compound, a circular clearing surrounded by an 8-foot wall of railroad ties. ![]() They turn into the woods and snake up a torch-lined road onto Honor Hill. They rumble past, some smiling, others tight-lipped, eyes straight ahead. Their backs ache from 35-pound rucksacks. After marching through the sticky Georgia night for hours, they’re finishing the final field exercise of their 14 weeks of basic infantry training, and their fellow recruits, who are only halfway through their training, are here to cheer them on. Down the road, the first soldiers from Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 58th Infantry Regiment bob into view. ![]() “On your feet!” a drill sergeant shouts at the hundreds of men from Alpha and Charlie companies lining a street at Fort Benning. Guns N’ Roses’ “Welcome to the Jungle” begins to blare through the trees behind us.
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