U.S. Army has graduated 25,000 soldiers through pre-basic training prep course

Nearly 25,000 recruits have graduated from the Army's Future Solider Prep Course and become soldiers. The program, which started in 2022, helps low-performing recruits meet the Army's standards to attend basic training.

Run primarily out of Fort Jackson, South Carolina, the program helps new recruits improve when they do not meet the Army's physical or academic standards, Army Times reported.

The program provides recruits with up to 90 days of support to "learn how to sleep, how to take a test, to meet the standards of the Army that have not been lowered," said Gen. Gary Brito of Training and Doctrine Command.

Command Sgt. Maj. Raymond Harris, the command's senior enlisted soldier, also stressed that the Army had not lowered its standards.

"We met them where they're at and they meet our standard," Harris said. "We did not lower a single standard to bring a single recruit into our Army."