Fort Leonard Wood BCT training schedule

🚧 We’re still verifying Fort Leonard Wood-specific training details with the garrison.

The general BCT structure — three or four phases over 10 weeks for the basic portion — applies broadly across Army installations, but phase names, the culminating exercise name, and the specific communication policies vary by post. We don’t want to paste Fort Jackson’s details under Fort Leonard Wood’s URL and have families plan around the wrong specifics.

What applies at Fort Leonard Wood

While we verify Fort Leonard Wood specifics, these hold for the basic portion of training here:

10 weeks, four phases. Yellow → Hammer → Anvil → Forge, with a culminating field exercise before graduation. The Forge is a 96-hour continuous field exercise that marks the transition to Soldier.
One phone call at arrival. Your Soldier calls when they reach the reception battalion to give you their mailing address. After that, letters are the main channel through Yellow Phase.
Silence near the end is normal. The final field exercise cuts off phone contact for several days. It means things are going well.
AIT is elsewhere for most grads. After BCT graduation, your Soldier ships to their MOS school at a different installation. (Note: some bases like Fort Benning run OSUT, where BCT and AIT are combined — confirm your Soldier’s training track.)

In the meantime

The Fort Jackson training schedule guide has the most complete phase detail on this site. Read the Fort Jackson version for the full phase breakdown and communication timeline. Note: phase names at Fort Leonard Wood differ (Yellow → Hammer → Anvil → Forge instead of Red → White → Blue), and FLW's culminating exercise is The Forge, a separate 96-hour FTX from Jackson's Victory Forge — the structure rhymes but the names don't.

For Fort Leonard Wood-specific details, the garrison website (home.army.mil/wood (opens in new tab)) and your Soldier’s training company are the source of truth.