The Army wants food vendors and tech companies to pitch ideas to upgrade dining halls that serve trainees at boot camp and ...

From Green Berets to the S-1 clerk and everyone in between, every soldier has something in common with each other: they’ve all started their military careers at the U.S. Army’s Basic Combat Training.

The Air Force says a program allowing recruits to connect online with a drill instructor before arriving at basic military training is now being used across the country and has reduced the number of ...

Exploring how each U.S. military branch uniquely shapes recruits through distinct, challenging basic training experiences.

From my experience and feedback from fellow military retirees and others with firsthand experience, the in-your-face, aggressive yelling in the first hours and days of boot camp did not deter recruits ...

FORT JACKSON, S.C. -- For some Marine drill instructors, seeing how the Army transforms civilians into Soldiers provided valuable takeaways for the improvement of their own boot camp. A group of ...

The title of this article is actually a misnomer: There is no way to make your drill instructor/drill sergeant/MTI/RDC happy. If there were, they would never show it, and they sure as hell would never ...

WASHINGTON -- The drill sergeants yelled at him relentlessly, as Josh Oller pushed himself through the trying weeks of basic combat training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Oller had already endured ...

When potential military recruits consider a life in service, questions about basic training are typically among the first asked. While there are resources aplenty, particularly for Army basic training ...