An increase in Army recruitment and enlistment has led to five more basic combat training companies at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri, and a 30% increase in soldiers training there.

The Army has surpassed its goals for recruiting new soldiers, and that means more enlistees will be training at Missouri's Fort Leonard Wood.

The Army added 10 new basic training companies over the past several months. Five of them are at Fort Sill in Oklahoma, and five of them are at Fort Leonard Wood.

That will increase the number of soldiers going through basic combat training at the post by 30%, to 18,000 this year.

Fort Leonard Wood was built in 1940 to train troops for World War II. It has been one of the Army's basic training locations ever since.

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