How New Recruits Should Prepare to Visit a Military Recruiter and Why It Matters Too many young people looking to join the U.S. military treat their first visit to the recruiter as a job fair, not a job...
What Recruits Should Know About Physically Preparing to Join the Military Consider joining once you hit a certain level of physical performance and activity.
How to Cross-Train Effectively for Special Operations Jobs For the spec-ops tactical athlete, you need to get good at all of the fitness elements, including strength, power, speed...
Fitness Intensity: How to Tell How Hard You’re Working for Your Goals While how you feel during a workout is important, there is a more objective way to grade your effort.
3 Tips to Maintain Your Energy Levels Throughout the Day Here is a list of rituals to add to your day to help “postprandial narcolepsy” from ruining your productivity.
The Differences Between Swimming With and Without Fins Preparing for a future in military diving, special ops programs and rescue swimming requires the mastery of several water...
How to Adjust a Pyramid Fitness Training Program to Achieve the Best Results The Pyramid workout starts easy and makes for an outstanding warm-up, builds up each set until the user fails, then works as...
How to Avoid the Dangers of Extreme Temperatures If not regulated, extreme temperatures can end your training or mission capability and ultimately lead to organ failure, coma...
These Workout Options Can Help You Start Moving Again This classic warm-up will get the legs moving and the body warm.
How an Advanced Track Workout Can Improve Your Military Fitness Test Scores This workout is ideal for those seeking to improve timed runs for military fitness tests and sprints and agility for combat...
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...