From Green Berets to the S-1 clerk and everyone in between, every soldier has something in common with each other: they’ve all started their military careers at the U.S. Army’s Basic Combat Training.
It’s getting harder and harder to find people to enlist in the Army. With the service expected to miss its projected end strength for this fiscal year by about 10,000 people, the Army isn’t in a ...
WASHINGTON — The Army is widening access to its new preparatory course to allow a candidate to enroll in the fitness and academic tracks to help more potential recruits meet the service’s entry ...
Basic trainees move in formation during the Forge, the final field training exercise of Army initial entry training, on Feb. 19, 2018, at Fort Jackson, South Carolina (U.S. Army photo). Earlier this ...
The Army is set to dramatically expand how many new recruits it can send to basic training this spring, riding the momentum of recent gains toward reversing a recruiting slump it has struggled with in ...
FORT BENNING, Ga. -- More than 100 young adults who've declared their intent to join the Army got a close-up look at what may await them during an Oct. 26 visit to a basic training unit here, hosted ...
The U.S. Air Force is doing away with its "BEAST Week" training exercise in favor of a shorter version of the simulated deployment that will last only a day and a half. "If we get it right, it will be ...
Basic trainees move in formation during the Forge, the final field training exercise of Army initial entry training, on Feb. 19 at Fort Jackson, S.C. (Army). FORT JACKSON, S.C. ― It’s day three of ...