We can’t forget the Drill Sergeants
One of the highest honors for a noncommissioned officer is a spot in Drill Sergeant Academy. Only the most qualified NCOs are chosen to attend Drill Sergeant Academy, where they are trained to fulfill a role of utmost importance. Drill sergeants teach new recruits every aspect of Basic Combat Training, which means they have the great responsibility of shaping civilians into the best Soldiers in the world.
Taken from US ARMY DRILL SERGEANTS, Read the rest here: https://www.army.mil/drillsergeant/
ARMY BARRACKS 
My god, how can we forget Basic Training and the Drill Sergeants? We can’t even if we tried! For me it was Ft Leonardwood Missouri, 6 Nov 1979 when training commenced A-5-3, DS Tucker, Marlin, Green, Rivera, Mantia , they were mostly returning from Vietnam and just as hard as woodpecker lips 🥹😊they molded us into men and made a profound impact on my life for sure!!!! Personally I think that all young people would benefit from having to serve at least 2 years like other countries in the world. I was a Combat Medic for 21 years and became a man that wore the time honored Round Brown, probably the best duty for me ever. Duty, Honor, Country baby regardless of the problems that we have, this is the absolute best country in the world and I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else!!!!!!
Lee T. Royster SFC, USA Ret
C-2-2 1 July 81 Fort Leonardwood
Fort Jackson, June to Aug ’70. B-8-2 located on tank hill. Parallel bars, low-crawls on the canvas before chow and marches to the rifle ranges. Sgt. Jones, Kreder, Shivers and Pacquette were drill sergeants. We had RA’s, NG’s, ER’s and US’s. I was the latter! Lived in the WWII era wooden barracks, torn down now. I see satellite views of tank hill and think, I was there!
Fort Jackson. A-2-1 King of the hill. 1967.
Took my basic training at Fort Knox Kentucky.
August 1963
D-15-4
Funny how I still remember the unit after all these years.
I did my Basic/AIT at Knox in 82
C-3-1