Previously, the course allowed potential recruits to work on both losing weight and meeting the Army’s academic requirements.

8. Sandbags. Sandbags have many uses by the military, from blocking bullets and building huts to creating a way to add ...

The Army is again dramatically expanding its pre-basic training courses that were created to get young Americans into compliance with the service's enlistment standards, as those courses are becoming ...

The Army has graduated nearly 25,000 recruits from its Future Soldier Prep Course who have gone on to become soldiers. The program started in 2022 with the aim to get low-performing recruits up to ...

Every summer, nearly 8,000 college students from across the country head to Fort Knox, Kentucky, for Cadet Summer Training.

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, ...

Military helicopters flew low as thousands of soldiers pushed through a wall of smoke and crested a hilltop in Colorado with the sounds of nearby machine gunfire. In one of the largest annual mass PT ...

FORT KNOX, Ky. — Summer is coming in hot, not only bringing with it the heat but also cadets; the very first of them from 1st Regiment, Advanced Camp arrived today. Every year, U.S. Army Cadet Command ...

The Army is again dramatically expanding its pre-basic training courses that were created to get young Americans into compliance with the service's enlistment standards, as those courses are becoming ...

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 ...