BASIC TRAINING Synonyms: 16 Similar and Opposite Words

basic training

noun

Definition of basic training

as in boot camp

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Recent Examples of basic training Carlos Kosienski/Sipa USA via Reuters The basic training facility for the Air Force in San Antonio, Texas, is experiencing a flu outbreak following the end of mandatory vaccination for all service members. — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 18 June 2026 In recognition, he was allowed to complete three weeks of basic training instead. — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 16 June 2026 In the early 1980s, during basic training in Wichita, Kansas, at McConnell Air Force Base, Curry’s roommate, a Black man from Ohio, had been asked by a white captain to help prepare a meal. — Clint Smith, The Atlantic, 9 June 2026 Following graduation from Warren Township High School, Joey Dimock went to Fort Benning, Georgia, for basic training before being deployed to Iraq in 2008, as the war there continued. — Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for basic training

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Noun

Rauscher joined the Naval Reserves in 1966, and completed boot camp at Naval Station Great Lakes in early 1967.

— Tom Strong, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2026
Van Der Werf recruits unemployed or underemployed Europeans as young as 18-years-old, into a five-week boot camp run by military veterans to teach teamwork, strength, and discipline.

— Richard Morgan, Time, 29 June 2026

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Some of the crowd’s energy Friday may have been due to the fact that training camp practices are closed this summer because of construction at the team’s practice facility in uptown Charlotte.

— Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 1 Aug. 2026
The Guard troops plan to continue training with the new technology alongside federal agency partners including the FBI and Department of Homeland Security to gain further expertise in using it to detect drone threats within the United States.

— Zita Ballinger Fletcher, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

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