BASIC TRAINING follows a company of draftees and enlisted men through the nine weeks of the basic
        training cycle. The varieties of training techniques used by the army in converting civilians to soldiers are
        illustrated in scenes of drills, M-16 and bayonet use, gas chamber, mines, night crawl, infiltration course and
        the many forms of ideological training familiar to millions of men and women who have served in the armed
        forces.