Overworked Drill Sergeants Offered Brief Reprieve at Basic Training Battalion
Overworked Drill Sergeants Offered Brief Reprieve at Basic Training Battalion Life as a drill sergeant is taxing. Noncommissioned officers assigned to any of the four basic combat training installations across the Army are usually up at 4 a.m. and aren't home until the late hours of the night. They are almost always on call during training cycles and constantly away from their families during their two-year assignment on "the trail." Those at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, the largest of the four training bases -- which sees an average of 1,000 basic combat training soldiers graduate every week, are getting an olive branch: an area where drill sergeants can spend time with their families and "take a break from the grind of the first 72 hours" of a training cycle. The 1st Battalion, 13th Infantry Regiment, calls it "the 1st 72-hour room."Read Next: Military Pilots Reported 1,700% More Medical Incidents During the Pandemic. The Pentagon Says They Just H