The Army's Answer to a Lack of Recruits Is a Prep Course to Boost Low Scores. It's Working Started as a trial program two years ago to help boost dismal recruiting numbers, the prep course is fueling the Army’s...
2 Space Force Guardians Become Service's First Graduates of Army's Drill Instructor Academy Space Force Tech. Sgt. David Gudgeon and Sgt. Yuji Moore graduated from the Army's program Wednesday, according to a news...
Second Fort Jackson Drill Sergeant Found Dead on Base This Month Staff Sgt. Zachary Melton, 30, a drill sergeant with 1st Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, was found Saturday in his vehicle...
Too Heavy to Fight? How the Army Is Combating the Obesity Crisis to Find Recruits Pvt. David Dean weighed 320 lbs. when he went to visit a National Guard recruiter. A West Virginia plumber by trade, he...
Once a Pilot, Army Program for Recruits Who Fall Short of Weight, Academic Standards Is Becoming Permanent The Future Soldier Preparatory Course was launched as a pilot program in August last year.
Overworked Drill Sergeants Offered Brief Reprieve at Basic Training Battalion Life as a drill sergeant is taxing. Noncommissioned officers assigned to any of the four basic combat training installations...
Army Expanding Course for Overweight and Low-Scoring Recruits in Bid to Fill the Ranks The Army's pre-basic training courses for applicants who come up short on academic or body fat standards will expand this...
Army Fort Jackson Trainee Arrested After Allegedly Hijacking a School Bus Full of Children Law enforcement officials say he'll now face multiple kidnapping charges.
Army Trainee Accused of Hijacking School Bus Charged with 19 Counts of Kidnapping Pvt. Jovan Collazo was charged with 19 counts of kidnapping, armed robbery, carjacking, and several weapons violations.
Army Recruit Who Hijacked Bus Full of Children Was Just Trying to Get Home, General Says Brig. Gen. Milford Beagle Jr. said the yet-to-be-named recruit could face military charges, including absence without leave.
Airman Accused of Firing AK-47 Through Apartment Wall in Latest Gun Death Near Wyoming Base The weekend arrest and firearm death come just weeks after a Security Forces airman was killed by an M18 handgun on base...
Navy Is Retiring the Last of its Storied Cruisers. To Veterans, They Were ‘the Pinnacle of Naval Power’ As the Navy nears its 250th anniversary in October, there's a lot of reminiscing going on about the fleet. Much of it...
Cancer in Military Pilots and Aircrews Will Be Studied Under Newly Signed Law President Donald Trump signed a law last week ordering the review of the prevalence of cancer and deaths by cancer in fixed...
AI Is About to Radically Alter Military Command Structures that Haven’t Changed Much Since Napoleon’s Army AI agents -- autonomous, goal-oriented software powered by large language models -- can automate routine staff tasks...
40 Years of Nebraska Vietnam Veterans Reunions. Now, a Final 'Taps' In a pesky drizzle, a handful of people recently set out 400 small American flags on an empty lot in memory of the 400...
