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.
Top 10 Things to Know Prior to Army Special Forces Training Getting ready for Army Special Forces Assessment and Selection requires commitment and a near lifetime of preparation.
Ask Stew: Unprepared but Athletic Some rush headfirst into challenging programs without much thought as to what they really are getting into, while others...
Career Change to Special Forces If you are seeking a career change to any of the special forces and special ops world, start training hard and start training...
Green Beret Training: 'Ain't Nothing But a Thing' "My stomach was in knots. I tightened the strap holding my eyeglasses. Somebody next to me punched my arm. 'Good luck, man.'"
Army Units to Deploy with Less Equipment, Use More Prepositioned War Stocks for Missions The Army has five caches of combat vehicles and other large warfighting equipment prepositioned around the world.
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
