With Training Reopened, Army Shipping Recruits to Basic Even Faster Than Before

After a rocky start, U.S. Army basic training officials now say they have significantly reduced the backlog of trainees waiting to move safely through the training pipeline despite pandemic conditions.

It's been two months since the Pentagon issued a forcewide stop-movement order, which halted graduating Basic Combat Training (BCT) classes shipping to advanced individual training (AIT) bases.