Should basic training be the same across all Branches of service?

No, when is a soldier or airman ever going to use, what we as sailor have to learn and use! Marines get shipboard training as the spend time on Navy ships!!! We are all unique in what we do!! We need to leave boot camps alone!!

Put it this way, how many artillery troops took on grunt roles in Iraq. How many transport units turned haulers into gun trucks. Teach new recruits how to fight, even the clerk typist needs to understand this. Branch of service makes no difference, its about the role you bring to fight.

No. Like many others have stated each branch is fundamentally different as far as organization and basic skills that are necessary to have. Also the Esprit de corps that is fostered in basic is important

Absolutely not part of basic training is learning your service's history and mission. All four branches have different histories and missions.

Negative, over!

Don't know if you need to train a cyber warrior like you do a Marine.

Lol.

I would have to say no because each service is different. I think overall though that the one good tweeking that could be done is in the physical testing department. Maybe set a standard for PT but other aspects are too service oriented to ever be able to have a common ground.

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Absolutely not. As everyone else has already stated, service specific boot camps teach recruits the basics of being a Sailor, Soldier, Airman, Marine. I can't imagine a branch-wide boot camp that could incorporate all of that training, unless boot camp was 1 year long. Even if it was, by the time trainees moved on to a different phase, they would forget everything they learned about being a Sailor (or whatever branch they're joining). No, I think the current setup works just fine.

To an extent, they should.