From Green Berets to the S-1 clerk and everyone in between, every soldier has something in common with each other: they’ve all started their military careers at the U.S. Army’s Basic Combat Training.

COLUMBIA-- Army officials have identified a soldier-in-training at Fort Jackson who died after a road march on a day when the high temperature climbed near 100. Pvt. Matthew G. Nish, 18, of Puyallup, ...