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| | deseretnews.com | Army revamping basic training program |
 | | The new training regimen includes additional time dodging real bullets, more opportunities to fire weapons, including heavy machine guns, and increasing the time spent practicing urban combat and hiking and sleeping in the field during the nine-week courses. |
 | | The changes were endorsed at a meeting of the Army's training brigade commanders in June and were promptly put into effect on an official, if still interim, basis at all five installations where the Army conducts its basic training. |
 | | In discussing the changes to basic training, Army officers do not specifically acknowledge how deeply the military was stung by some high-profile combat failings, including the attack on an Army support convoy near Nasiriya, Iraq, early in the war. |
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