U.S. Air Force Basic Military Training is any airman’s first step into the massive world of the Air Force. From security forces to combat controllers, logisticians to mechanics, all airmen start their ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — More than 40 feet up the tower at Fort Jackson, Army recruit Robert Smith missed setting his feet on the 4-by-4 plank from which he was to start rappelling down. “I said: ...

An increase in Army recruitment and enlistment has led to five more basic combat training companies at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri, and a 30% increase in soldiers training there. The Army has ...

Army Pfc. Ryan P. Carey , a 2009 graduate of Walkersville High School, has completed basic combat training at Fort Jackson, in Columbia, S.C. During his nine weeks of training, Carey studied the ...

A College Park native has graduated from the U.S. Army’s basic combat training at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C. Army Pfc. Monique N. Millard completed nine weeks of training, studying the Army’s ...

WASHINGTON – A remedial course designed to prepare potential Army recruits for basic training will become a permanent part of the service’s strategy in overcoming its sagging enlistment numbers, ...

Newly arrived trainees of 3rd Platoon, Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 58th Infantry Battalion compete against another platoon in tug of war during the "First 100 yards" on October 21st, 2022 at Fort ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Generations of recruits at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center have marched from barracks to classroom, classroom to barracks, barracks to mess hall, more than a mile and a half a ...