Basic Training
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Camp Croft, South Carolina
US Army Infantry Replacement Training Center

 
All Infantry Replacements were required to learn basic infantry skills no matter what specialty they were later to be trained in. Topics included Military Courtesy, First Aid, Sanitation, Field Training, Map Reading, Cover and Concealment, and familiarity with basic weapons. After this initial training the soldier was further instructed in one of 6 specialties as shown below. The trainee needed to become proficient in all the positions of the platoon or squad to which he had been assigned.
Typical Day in the Army

Reveille ........................................................  0600 
Breakfast ....................................................   0630
Policing Area .............................................    0700
Drill Formation ..........................................     0730
Return to Company Area ...........................    1130
Mail Call ....................................................    1145
Lunch (Chow) ............................................    1200
Drill Formation ...........................................    1245
Return to Company Area ............................    1645
             Dress for Retreat ........................................    1645 to 1715
Retreat .......................................................    1725
Supper (Chow) ..........................................    1730
Mail Call ....................................................    1800
Tattoo (Light out) .....................................      2100
Call to Quarters .........................................     2245
Bed Check .................................................    2300
Taps ..........................................................     2300
Sunday meals:    Breakfast ............................  0730
                         Dinner ................................   1200
                         Supper ...............................   1630

--- from the "Information Hand Book For The Soldier - IRTC, Fort McClellan, Alabama", c1944