Like thousands of other soldiers and trainees leaving Fort Jackson, Matthew McWilliams, received two weeks of vacation time after graduating from basic training to spend the holidays back home in ...

FORT JACKSON, S.C. (WIS ... So, it’s just a little bit of an opportunity for me to give back.” For some basic training graduates like Nuebe Abebe, the little things bring the most excitement ...

Fort Jackson is the largest and most active Initial ... That means training in excess of 45,000 basic training and advanced individual training Soldiers every year.

Sebastián Villaorduña assembles as one of 1,207 soldiers who are the most recent to graduate from basic training at Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina, on Nov. 27. (Michael S. Williamson/T ...