Basic training is the first hard weeks that turn a civilian into a soldier. Go through basic training.
Most of it is about obedience under exhaustion rather than about weapons at all. Basic training deliberately strips individuality first, which is the part people find hardest to describe.
1nounbasic trainingThe first hard weeks that turn a civilian into a soldier.
“Basic training lasted fourteen weeks and he lost two stone.”
basic training is training.
Practised in Military & Defence