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I hope you all have a good Christmas. Been busy and not here much lately. Any questions or comments or Merry Christmases can be put here. Later.
Boot camp is more a Marine term, it is BCT, Basic Combat Training. It is a course that turns 'trainees' into 'soldiers,' and falls under the auspices of TRADOC, or Training and Doctrine Command. I went to BCT at Ft. Knox, KY, Company D-15-4, third Platoon. I graduated, and I ETSed with an Honorable discharge.
I know the Army, especially in this period and the 1980s when I went back in well. In fact, I bet I know it much better than you do.
Maybe it's used more prevalently for the Navy and Marines, but I believe it's fairly common to use that term for basic training in all the services. For example, do a search for "Army boot camp" or "Air Force boot camp."
It is, but not at Basic/BCT. The Drill Sergeants are not called 'sir' like the Marine Boot camp, and the trainees don't have to refer to themselves in the third person singular way. Also one can move your eyeballs when standing at attention, something they give the 'boots' hell for in the Marines.
Army BCT is much easier to get through than that of the Marines.