Military entry-level training, like most things in 2020, has been anything but normal this year. Recruits have spent the weeks leading up to boot camp or basic training sequestered in dorm rooms and ...
If you’ve observed Army recruits on their first day at basic training in recent years, you may have noticed something a little different: there isn’t quite as much screaming. It’s been almost two ...
Nearly five years ago, the Army moved away from the practice of several drill sergeants surrounding trainees and yelling at them to establish dominance at the start of basic training — a practice ...
Sailors in recruit division 012 present class and 2d Marine Division (MARDIV) guidons in the USS Midway Ceremonial Drill Hall during their boot camp graduation at Navy Recruit Training Command in ...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth may bring back the practice of several Army drill sergeants swarming and screaming at recruits during basic training in what is known as a “shark attack.” The practice, ...
WASHINGTON -- The drill sergeants yelled at him relentlessly, as Josh Oller pushed himself through the trying weeks of basic combat training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Oller had already endured ...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is considering reversing a ban on the "shark attack," the time-honored aggressive practice used by drill sergeants to train U.S. Army recruits in basic training. The ...
As the Army appears to be turning the corner in its years-long recruiting challenges, two new boot camp sites will start creating even more soldiers this fall. Basic combat training at Fort Sill, ...
Roughly 1 in 4 young adults are too overweight to qualify to serve in the military. But even a lot of the ones who make it through the recruiting process suffer injuries in basic training, some of ...
The Air Force’s newest airmen are spending a lot more time with weapons than their predecessors have for more than a decade. Since the end of July, airmen and guardian trainees have been carrying ...