Have Soldiers Forgotten How to Use a Map and Compass? About seven months after the Army reintroduced land navigation to its Basic Leader Course, half of the soldiers in that pilot...
Army Guard and Reserve Grapple with the Time Suck of Mandatory Online Training The Army requires soldiers to sit through roughly a dozen training courses per year, such as suicide prevention and cyber...
Time in the Field, Longer School. The Army's Basic Leader Course May Get a Big Overhaul. The potential overhaul of the course would be part of the service's effort to get all of its troops more extensive combat...
'Don't Do It:' Senior Leaders Say Soldiers Should Stop Taking Mandatory Online Classes The move is part of a broader shift away from the Global War on Terrorism era and toward ramping up training for conventional...
California Army Post Still Doesn't Have Clean Drinking Water After More Than a Week At a sprawling,165,000 acres, Fort Hunter Liggett is the Army Reserve's largest training installation.
2,000 Expert Soldier Badges Have Been Awarded in 3 Years. But Do Non-Combat Units Want It? The 2,000 Expert Soldier Badges, or ESBs, have been awarded to a pool of roughly 20,000 soldiers who have undertaken tests...
Here's How the Army Is Keeping Basic Trainees from Getting Injured as Often A lot of recruits suffer injuries in basic training, some of which can be attributed to the sudden ratcheting up of physical...
Land Navigation Is Coming Back to the Army's Basic Leader Course The Army's Basic Leader Course is a 22-day school for the Army's junior leaders and required to rise to the rank of sergeant.
'It's Lethal Here': Army Aims to Master the Arctic, Where the Environment Is the Enemy Sub-zero day temperatures and plunging night temperatures make even the most mundane Army task a huge undertaking in the...
The Army Axes its Best Warrior Competition as it Turns Focus to Squads The full list of what the Best Squad competition will feature is unknown, but events will be team oriented.
Hegseth Wants $50,000 for 'Emergency' Paint Job to Move into Military Family Housing, Lawmakers Say While it is not unprecedented for a defense secretary to live in military housing, it is far more common for them to find...
Elon Musk Aide Is Now Working at VA and Accessing Its Computer Systems A VA spokesman said the Department of Government Efficiency employee was given access to find waste and improve operations...
Navy Stays Silent on Panama Canal Use as Negotiations on Fees Stall The Navy's decision to stay silent amid the negotiations with Panama makes it difficult to accurately determine just how much...
The Loneliest General: Silence Surrounds Gen. Mark Milley Amid Trump Retaliation President Donald Trump focused his ire and retaliation on one person in the very first minutes of his presidency, even before...
Guatemala Gives Rubio a Second Deportation Deal for Migrants Being Sent Home from the US Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo said his country will accept migrants from other countries who are being deported from...
