PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - New Jersey Army National Guard Spc. Sanaa Drinks survived a drive-by shooting and credits her survival to ...

The Army is set to dramatically expand how many new recruits it can send to basic training this spring, riding the momentum of recent gains toward reversing a recruiting slump it has struggled with in ...

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 ...

Soldiers marching in uniform, drill sergeants yelling, muddy obstacle courses – these are often the images the words “basic ...

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 ...

U.S. Army basic training (Initial Entry Training) at Fort Benning, Georgia is divided into 2 parts: Basic Combat Training (BCT) and Advanced Individual Training (AIT). BCT lasts for 10 weeks and is ...

A US Army UH-72 Lakota, which the service says is too advanced to teach its student pilots elementary flying skills and is now looking at fielding a more basic solution. (US Army) The US Army is ...

One of the hardest and most uncomfortable parts of Army basic training is the so-called Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical or NBC training, which teaches recruits to effectively use protective ...

What is usually an event of tears and hugs of pride and gratitude got a playful twist from one family from Bowie, Maryland. Two sisters, about to pin a U.S. Army patch on their brother’s sleeve as he ...

An update to Army basic training rules forbids drill instructors from creating "social media content" with new recruits, and changes the rules on PT-based "smoke" - a term frowned upon in the rules.

A U.S. soldier died during a training incident in Hungary this week, the Army's 101st Airborne Division confirmed to Fox News Digital Saturday. Sgt. Aaron Cox, 24, of Mabank, Texas, died Thursday near ...