Amid coronavirus, Army Basic Combat Training shows better results for Gen Z recruits

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FORT JACKSON, SOUTH CAROLINA — At Victory Tower at Fort Jackson on a recent steamy South Carolina morning, some 260 Echo Company recruits gathered for only the second time in their three weeks at the Army’s largest combat training center.

COVID-19 has kept them in platoons of no more than 30 since late spring.

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