The recruits spend their initial training at the sprawling Kabul Military Training Centre on the outskirts of the city.

Newly inducted recruits spend 33 weeks at the Academy.

Many panicked recruits spent more time staring at the timer than securing their suit components.

The recruits spend their days mastering the company's household appliances, which are periodically swapped for different models, even that of a competitor, for comparison testing.

The recruits have spent time in the emergency room, observing the treatment process and understanding how the E.M.T.'s and hospital staff work together to serve the patients.

All recruits spend 13 weeks in training at an academy in Oklahoma City, then three years in on-the-job probation.

Officials said the recruits would spend eight weeks this summer in classroom settings with their course work based on "simulated" schools.

Training lasts approximately eight weeks (although some recruits will spend as many as nine weeks in training due to the somewhat complicated processing cycle).

The Hawks and their new recruits had only spent forty-eight hours together before returning to Tiger and Shark Islands, and the Battle of the Islands competition.

He said the recruits spend their first weeks with International Paper in Hawthorne, N.Y., where he helps them understand the program and where they receive assignments to company plants.