Basic Combat Training is a demanding 10-week journey where young men and women leave civilian life behind and become U.S.

Potential recruits will now be able to attend the Army Future Soldier Preparatory Course to lose weight or improve their test ...

You are a new Army recruit, seconds away from stepping off the bus at Fort Jackson to begin Basic Training. As you stare into the night sky your mind starts racing. When do I get my haircut; how short ...

The Army has revamped the Forge, which has been the capstone event of basic training for over half a decade, based on lessons learned from the war in Ukraine, Gen. Gary M. Brito told Task & Purpose in ...

Students enlisted in the Army's Future Soldier Prep Course in their barracks at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, in 2022. The course is an an effort to better prepare recruits for the demands of basic ...

The Army is set to expand how many new recruits it can send to basic training starting in October, as officials are confident the service is digging out of a recruiting slump it has struggled with for ...

Maj. Gen. Phil Brooks, Fires Center of Excellence commander, center, observes students disable drones at the Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems University. (Christopher Wilson/U.S. Army) ...

The Army will slash nearly one dozen mandatory training programs for its soldiers in the summer as it looks to streamline their time to focus on combat readiness tasks, service officials said. The ...

A new study published in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging suggests that stress experienced during basic combat training may dampen the brain’s ability to respond to ...

At Camp Frank D. Merrill, nestled in the rugged terrain of Northern Georgia, the U.S. Army's 5th Ranger Training Battalion, Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade, leads the mountain phase of the U.S.