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Encyclopedia > Boot Camp (reality show)

Boot Camp was a weekly reality television show aired on Fox starting March 28, 2001. Reality television is a genre of television programming in which the fortunes of real life people (as opposed to fictional characters played by actors) are followed. ... The Fox Broadcasting Company is a television network in the United States. ... March 28 is the 87th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (88th in Leap years). ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


The show involved sixteen civilian contestants participating in a real life military style boot camp 24 hours a day. Four drill instructors put the contestants through special training activites and obstacle courses to prepare them for the "missions" which they will take part in on each of the 8 episodes. At the end of these missions the contestants faced an evaluation by their peers to determine who goes and who stays. On the final episode the two remaining contestants compete for the $500,000 dollar prize. A civilian is a person who is not a member of a military. ... A military or miltary force (n. ... U.S. Army recruits learn about bayonet fighting skills in an infantry Basic Combat Training at Fort Benning, Georgia. ... A drill sergeant drills recruits in the U.S. Army. ...


The four drill instructors:


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