For some time, military behavioral scientists have attempted to find ways to identify the young person who could successfully complete basic training and become a useful soldier while also detecting those individuals who would not be able to adapt or adjust and might be returned to the civilian world. This paper reports on the investigation of the relationships between preservice biographic and demographic data of military enlistees and their manner of performance and adjustment during the initial phases of military training. These studies indicate that military adjustment and associated problems are directly related to the individuals pre-service adjustment patterns. The implications of this investigation suggests that coping patterns do not change upon enlistment in the Army. Those soldiers with a history of poor adjusting skills became maladjusted soldiers, unable to adapt and successfully survive in the military training environment. There is the possibility that early identification of these individuals could assist commanders and training cadre to understand why they rapidly fail at soldiering also. (Author)