“All Army basic combat training could be consolidated and offered at Fort Jackson, Goldsmith said.”
Nonsense. It works better and saves money if soldiers do basic training at the same installation where they will attend Advanced Individual Training (AIT)(AKA - MOS Training). IF you send a soldier to one installation to do basic training and then send him across the country to do AIT....it costs more money. Soldiers that are going to be in Field Artillery or Air Defense Artillery are best run through Basic Training at Fort Sill. Soldiers going to the Military Police, Engineers, or Chemical Corps should go to Basic Training at Fort Leonard Wood where they will also go to AIT.
Stealing from other installations in order to keep Fort Jackson afloat is specious logic. Why should Jackson remain while the other installations then take a big hit? It is not logical, unless you are from that state or “work” at Fort Jackson.
Your A 100% right. I went to Fort Jackson only to inprocess and then was placed on a bus for Fort Benning and basic training. I never understood the waste of money in sending a bunch of us to Fort Jackson in the first place.