Though he has been told he can fill all his direct-care positions, he says it may take until December before those jobs are filled and the recruits trained.

The general said the new recruits would train for two weeks.

Fort Dix, where countless raw recruits trained for war, is on the hit list because the Army has too many basic training camps.

It allows the recruits to train under a controlled environment where they are to respond to different types of combat situations.

All those recruits he'd trained and pained.

During World War I, nearly 50,000 recruits trained at the camp, commanded by Major General Leonard Wood.

Male and female recruits train together in classes that two years ago were segregated.

By the fall of 2000, the recruits were training at different aviation schools around the country.

During World War II, anti-aircraft recruits trained here and sharpened their aim by blasting targets pulled by Navy planes out of Westport.

The recruits of the 22nd Massachusetts trained at a camp in Lynnfield, Massachusetts, during September and left for the front, numbering 1,117, on October 8, 1861.