Previously, the course allowed potential recruits to work on both losing weight and meeting the Army’s academic requirements.

Recently, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has argued that during the Biden years, Army basic training became too soft and lost some of its hardcore edge. He wants basic training to toughen up. Which ...

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 ...

Army barracks are not well-regarded within the Department of Defense. Even the Advanced Individual Training barracks at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, are not up to Air Force standards; the ...