An intimidating and demanding figure immortalized by Vietnam War movies, the drill sergeant is responsible for transforming ...

Staff Sgt. Zachary L. Melton, 30, a drill sergeant with the 1st Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, was found by unit ...

Staff Sgt. Samuel Matlock has been reassigned to Fort Eustis, Virginia, where he’ll work as an adviser to the command team ...

Stephanie Snyder/U.S. Army) A new approach to training brand new recruits in large-scale combat aims to prepare soldiers for ...

Naturally, our drill sergeants confiscated the photos but kindly let the soldier keep the laxative. This rather mild prank (by army standards) was not as bad as promising the soldier an opportunity to ...

Donald Trump is embracing perhaps Hollywood’s most memorable drill sergeant to portray his vision of a hardened military and ...

She is a graduate of the Drill Sergeant Academy, and she became the first woman to serve as command sergeant major of an Army division in 2021 when she assumed the role of senior enlisted leader ...

Francis E. “Jack” Smith, the son of Quincey Lee, Sr. and Margaret Grace (McMillon) Smith, was born January 23, 1943, in ...

C AARP. As a volunteer at Horses Spirits Healing in Billings, this former Vietnam vet works daily with other veterans, ...

Each of us was assigned a sidewalk square where we were ordered to dump the contents of our bags for inventory, returning each item as it was called off. “Five pairs of underwear!” ...

Matlock, who is from Palmer, enlisted in the Alaska National Guard before switching to active duty and eventually becoming a drill sergeant. And after winning the active-duty U.S. Army Drill ...

This structure gives young soldiers firsthand field experience while keeping drill sergeants sharp on basic soldiering and leadership skills, said Gen. Gary Brito, head of the Army’s Training ...