He Lost 100 Pounds. Is He Ready to Serve? A sign of maturity is patience, and this journey may take a year or two to build a foundation of fitness capable of enduring...
How to Deal with Failure: Reframe and Move Forward Navy SEAL veteran and Military.com's tactical fitness expert, Stew Smith, provides advice for overcoming failure and...
Fueling Strategies for the Army Combat Fitness Test You'll need to recalibrate how you fuel your body so you can handle the additional challenges to your different energy...
If You Are Functionally Fit, Think You Are Up to the TRX-Force Mission Readiness Challenge? The ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of comfort and convenience, but where they stand at times...
Ask Stew: Should I Worry About PED Testing During SEAL Training? Here is a question from a young man seeking to join the ranks of Navy Special Warfare that shares some of his concerns.
How to Build Up to 3 Leg Days a Week You must prepare for fitness tests that include upper-body calisthenics and cardio, but skipping leg day can cause weakness...
10 Ways to Do More with Less When You Have No Space, Equipment or Time In a world filled with fitness gadgets, it's easy to overlook the power of simplicity and consistency.
These Swimming Workouts Will Make Your Time in the Water More Challenging Adding clothing and calisthenics are two ways to make your swim workouts more difficult when preparing for military fitness...
How to Adapt Your Hydration and Nutrition When Working Out in Extreme Heat Hydration, adding electrolytes and good nutritional choices are critical to success regardless of the intense activity, but...
4 Ways Everyday Americans Can (and Should) Harness the Components of Tactical Fitness In an ever-expanding fitness landscape, "tactical fitness" provides an approach tailored to military, law enforcement and...
How the Government Shutdown Impacts Veterans and the VA While most vets won't be impacted by the ongoing government shutdown, concerns may ramp up the longer it persists.
Hegseth Wants 'Male Standard' for Combat Roles. Many Female Veterans Say That's Already the Case Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in an address to the military’s top leaders waded back into a topic that nearly derailed his...
The Forgotten Military Vehicles of ‘M*A*S*H’ Between all the martini-fueled hijinx and medical drama, “M*A*S*H” featured some pretty special military vehicles.
Hegseth's Decision on Wounded Knee Medals Sparks Outrage in Native American Communities Native American communities that had long wanted the removal of military honors for the soldiers involved in the 1890 Wounded...
Airman Confronts and Shoots Armed Neighbor on Deadly Rampage, Iowa Officials Say Harrison Friar, a senior airman, was with his wife and children at their home in Glenwood on the evening of Aug. 6 when they...
