Recruit training, more commonly known as
Basic Training and colloquially called
boot camp, is the initial
indoctrination and instruction given to new
military personnel,
enlisted and
officer. After completion of Basic Training, new recruits undergo Advanced Individual Training (AIT), where they learn the skills needed for their military jobs. Officer trainees undergo more detailed programs that may either precede or follow the common recruit training in an officer training academy (which may also offer a civilian degree program simultaneously) or in special classes at a civilian
university. During recruit training, drill instructors do everything possible to push a recruit to his or her physical and mental limits.