ABSTRACT
This chapter challenges the traditional theorisations of military identities through both an examination of domesticity as a conceptual term and an analysis of the inculcation of domestic skills during military service. It outlines current scholarship focusing on the nature of military masculinities. The chapter examines issues of domesticity and the changing sense of 'home' for army men during their military service and subsequently following demobilisation. Specific military bases deal with certain aspects of training and so soldiers may be on base in the initial basic training period, yet then be moved to a more specialist base in the area of which they wish to pursue their Army career. The process of empowerment and subsequent disempowerment is a tool that the military has developed to create obedient soldiers who are fit for purpose. Much of the training in Army Barracks is based upon routine and the times that one must eat, sleep, shower, train and rest.
