Basic Combat Training · 10 weeks
Fort Jackson
Columbia, South Carolina · Nearest airport: CAE (22 min drive)
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What happens at Family Day
The Wednesday-morning ceremony, the pass that lets you walk on post together, what your Soldier can and can’t do until evening.
Graduation morning, step by step
Gate to use, when parking fills, where to sit at the ceremony field, how long the ceremony runs.
Hotels (6 recommended)
Drive times to the gate, whether breakfast is open before you leave, prices. Sorted by what matters on graduation morning, not by who pays us most.
Packing list
What to bring for the bleachers, what your Soldier wants when you arrive, the things families come back and say they wish they’d packed.