US Army Training Center - Yearbook (Fort Leonard Wood, MO)

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Training is conducted to teach the soldier how to survive in a combat condition. He is taught how to negotiate all kinds of terrain and how to move when under Hre. The soldier is instructed on battlefield survival by means of many hours of actual field training under simulated combat conditions. I

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WHAT IS A DRILL SER GEANT? They are the cautioning voice, the helpful hand, the watchful eye that guides the new soldier through the strenuous Army Training. They have gained their knowledge through practical experience. It is properly their job to guide, instruct, and encourage the young people who are training to become soldiers. They are seasoned graduates of the Drill Sergeants School-a course which reviews all the Basics', of Basic Training in a curriculum much more strenuous than Basic Training. They wear the Distinctive Mark ofa Graduate of that school-the World War l type campaign hat or the Australian Bush hat. To the Drill Sergeants at Fort Leonard Wood and the proud soldiers they have produced, this book is dedicated. 21

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