RICHMOND, Va. — The Army is adding a week to basic training, not to teach additional skills but to help recruits better master what they’re already learning. The Army is expanding its standard basic ...

Army basic training got a major face lift in 2018. Early in the year, Fort Jackson, South Carolina’s basic training program of instruction was updated to encourage more fitness and discipline in new ...

FORT KNOX, Ky. (Jan. 22, 2010) -- Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling, the Training and Doctrine's deputy commanding general for Initial Military Training, spent some time at Fort Knox last week for a conference ...

In the wake of a string of deadly military aviation accidents over the past several years, the U.S. Army is launching a major overhaul of how it trains new pilots that focuses on getting back to the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Last August, Daysia Holiday decided to try one more time to join the Army. She’d taken the academic test and failed three times. So, when she was offered a slot in a new Army prep ...

Air Force recruits in their fifth week of training learn rifle fighting techniques during pugil stick training. The Air Force’s Basic Military Training recently expanded from 7.5 weeks to 8.5 weeks.

It’s getting harder and harder to find people to enlist in the Army. With the service expected to miss its projected end strength for this fiscal year by about 10,000 people, the Army isn’t in a ...

Citing a disturbing trend of new soldiers lacking both proper discipline and physical fitness, senior U.S. Army leaders are calling for a tougher and longer basic training program to prepare troops ...

A trainee from the 198th Infantry Brigade low crawls through an obstacle at Fort Moore, Georgia. (Capt. Stephanie Snyder/U.S. Army) A new approach to training brand new recruits in large-scale combat ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The spring 2023 Purdue Extension Master Gardener (EMG) basic training program will begin Feb. 7 as a weekly series of live virtual webinars ...