Boot Camp

Recruit training, more commonly known as Basic Training and colloquially called boot camp, is the initial indoctrination and instruction given to new enlisted military personnel.

Officer trainees undergo more detailed programs, which includes in more detail the knowledge passed on in the enlisted recruit training program, taking place at an officer training academy (which may also offer a civilian degree program simultaneously).

The United Stars Military has over one hundred Recruit Training Facilities scattered across Union Space divided up between the various branches. Under normal conditions each facility operates at 50 to 75% of it's maximum capacity, but is kept ready to expand to full capacity within a week.