Download or read book Mixed-gender basic training: The U.S. Army Experience, 1973-2004 written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an account of the many currents, some ongoing, that informed the Army's struggle to design a basic training course acceptable to the nation's civil and military leadership, the general public, various special iterest groups, and the young men and women undergoing their first experience as soldiers. Employs a mixture of topical and chronological organization. The major focus is on the period from 1973 to 2004. Tells the Army's story of mixed-gender training at the initial-entry level.