Basic military training consists of highly regimented training in the context of fairly extreme
psychosocial stressors, and some recruits suffered from rigorous disturbance in mind. Even if practical measures
which include instructive psychological intervention have been taken to ameliorate the disturbance, some
questions still have not been settled in our practical work for recruits. For example, what are the manifestations of
psychological problems for recruits? What is the difference of the psychological problems at different stages
during the training? A perspective investigation was found that emotion disturbances before the training and
somatic symptoms at the end of the 1st month of training are remarkable, which can be viewed as, if needed, target
symptoms in the psychological intervention. While recruits got more objective social supports in the later training
and their sleep status had not shown significant change during the military training. Based on the investigations,
we also submitted our suggestion to mental health intervention for recruits, and this may be helpful for health
education in the army.