Army Set to Dramatically Grow Basic Training, Riding Recruiting High By April, the service expects to have 10 additional basic training units established across Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and...
Navy Already Rejecting Transgender Recruits After Trump Order A Navy memo dated the day after Trump signed his order directed recruiters to reject transgender applicants immediately...
Marine Recruiter Charged with Felony Child Seduction of Teen Student in Indiana Investigators confronted 28-year-old Staff Sgt. Daniel Escobar at a local high school on Jan. 17 after the father of the...
Early Momentum: Army Hits 30,000 Recruits, Half its Goal for the Year The service has 30,000 new enlistments this year -- an increase of 6,000 compared to the same period last year, the data...
Surge of Female Enlistments Helped Drive Army Success in Reaching 2024 Recruiting Goal Nearly 10,000 women signed up for active duty in 2024, an 18% jump from the previous year, while male recruitment increased...
The Top 10 Military.com News Stories of 2024 This year's list includes investigations into abuse at military base child care facilities and alarming indications of cancer...
Hearing Loss, Asthma Won't Disqualify Air Force and Space Force Recruits Under New Policy The new waivers come as the Air Force managed to scrape by its active-duty recruiting goals, in large part due to policy...
Do Air Shows Really Help Military Readiness and Recruiting? Congress Plans to Find Out. Lawmakers want the secretary of defense to brief Congress on how sending military aircraft to air shows affects recruiting...
Navy Cuts Length of Boot Camp Amid Rise in Recruiting Totals The Navy says that, starting next month, it will shorten the length of its Basic Military Training program -- commonly known...
Female Teens Don't See Themselves in the US Military. Here's Why, According to Pentagon Surveys. Surveys find that just 21% of American females ages 16 to 21 were qualified to serve in the U.S. military compared with 25%...
Tennessee Man Shot Dead After Flipping Middle Finger at War Memorial Albert Sturgill Jr., 63, was confronted by a group while gesturing at the flag and monuments at Cumberland County Veterans...
Chicago Braces for Potential National Guard Deployment Amid Trump Threats Illinois politicians are sounding an alarm and bracing for possible National Guard deployments to Chicago amid President...
9/11 Air Defense Stories You Might Not Know As hijacked planes turned into weapons on September 11, 2001, inside a quiet Air National Guard facility in upstate New York...
Is Trump's Troop Buildup in US Cities a Declaration of War — or Something Else? As President Donald Trump goads Democratic-led cities, Americans are grappling with a fundamental question of American...
Navy Demotion Reversed for GOP Congressman Who Government Watchdog Found Abused Subordinates Jackson was quietly demoted to captain in 2022, three years after his retirement from the Navy, following an inspector...