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		<title>Coping With Your First Day of Basic Training</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Certainly if you have been to basic training you will always remember your first day.  As you laid in your bunk on that first night, thoughts were rushing through your head and your mind was scrambling trying to remember everything your Drill Sergeants taught you.  Your muscles and mind were fatigued.  On that first night, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ultimatebasictraining.com/blog/?p=206</link>
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		<title>Basic Training Injuries-Shin splints</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shin splints are a common cause for concern for each military recruit. Whether you are leaving for marine corps basic training or army basic training, the outcome of painful shins will be the same.  And, to make it even worse, there is no magic pill to cure them.  Shin splints are a result of fatigue and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ultimatebasictraining.com/blog/?p=202</link>
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		<title>Basic Training Running</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Le&#8217;ts talk about running at army basic training (or marine corps basic training, or heak, even air force basic training). When going through basic training a recruit has to do lots of running. In Army basic training a recruit will typically do a group run every other day of at least a couple miles. The drill sergeants will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ultimatebasictraining.com/blog/?p=198</link>
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		<title>How to Avoid Getting in Trouble at Basic Training</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don’t go to basic training unprepared.  The small amount of preparation you can do before basic training will save you hundreds of sit-ups and push-ups in front of a drill sergeant.  During basic training you will be dealing with Drill Sergeants who love to yell at you and hang on your every word.  One of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ultimatebasictraining.com/blog/?p=195</link>
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		<title>Top 5 Tips on How to Avoid Getting Yelled at by Drill Sergeants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let’s face it, basic training is tough. For the first time you will have to wait for permission to eat or even go to the bathroom. Wouldn’t it make life easier if you knew some tips on avoiding special attention from those mean Drill Sergeants? In my best-selling book, The Ultimate Basic Training Guidebook I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ultimatebasictraining.com/blog/?p=191</link>
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		<title>Basic Training Questions: Top or Bottom Bunk?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit, from time to time I get unique questions which I have never been asked before. Someone going to army basic training asked me if the top or bottom bunk was better at fort benning and/or fort jackson. Whether you are going to marine corps basic training or air force basic training, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ultimatebasictraining.com/blog/?p=186</link>
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		<title>Can Tuition Assistance Help With College?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can Tuition Assistance Help With College? When you joined the service you may remember hearing about tuition assistance. It&#8217;s a benefit available to everyone, active or reserves, in every branch of the service. It is entirely funded by the federal government, with the exception of some states&#8217; air and army national guards that use state [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ultimatebasictraining.com/blog/?p=182</link>
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		<title>Military Basic Training-Why Are You Joining?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why are you joining the military? Have you asked yourself that question yet? Too many recruits just join the military becuase they saw a neat commercial or they need the college money. That, in my opinion, is the worst reason to join.  You will have a difficult time at basic training with those excuses as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ultimatebasictraining.com/blog/?p=179</link>
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		<title>Going to Basic Training? You have the Ability to Pay for School!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You have no doubt heard the recent buzz about the Post 9/11 or Chapter 33 GI Bill, which is arguably the most comprehensive education benefit offered to date, allowing many veterans serving our country after September 11, 2001 the ability to pay for school like never before. As a military student, it pays your school [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ultimatebasictraining.com/blog/?p=175</link>
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		<title>The Games Drill Sergeants Play</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Games Drill Sergeants Play In my book, The Ultimate Basic Training Guidebook (www.UltimateBasicTraining.com), I discuss many tactics drill sergeants use to exhaust a recruit mentally and physically. This is the final installment of a three part article that describes some of these common tactics and how to overcome such obstacles. The story below is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ultimatebasictraining.com/blog/?p=172</link>
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