The Army Must Reward Smart Leaders, Not Just Strong Ones, if We Want to Win the Next War "The Army must start rewarding academic success as much as high fitness scores."
Commander of Army Pacific Training Brigade Suspended Col. Jonathan Chung was removed this week from his position commanding the 5th Security Force Assistance Brigade after...
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.
Trump Pardons Former Army Officer Convicted of Disobeying COVID-19 Safety Rules President Trump pardoned a former junior Army officer who was found guilty in a 2022 court-martial of violating orders to...
He Was a Sailor. I, a Marine. Our Romance Was Forbidden by Regulation. I was the new “WM”—Woman Marine—on deck, and I felt the weight of all eyes watching me for every right or wrong move I made...
American Military Jeeps Are Rising from the Ashes in Vietnam A company called Van Daryl is rebuilding the Jeeps the American military left behind in Vietnam, and you’ll hardly recognize...
Pentagon Weighs Bigger Army as Service Sees Early Recruiting Success As of Monday, the Army had brought in 59,875 new active-duty enlisted soldiers with a total goal of 61,000 for fiscal 2025...
Space Command Headquarters in Colorado 'Not Sustainable' Without New Construction, GAO Finds The political fight over Space Command's future in either Alabama or Colorado has been a partisan tug-of-war for more than...
