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.

FORT SILL, Oklahoma (May 24, 2021) – Army families were invited to attend a basic combat training graduation ceremony May 21, for the first time since to global pandemic put a halt to public ...

With the establishment of the all-volunteer force in 1973, the Army viewed increasing women’s participation as critical to meeting recruitment goals. But questions arose about the roles of women ...

The U.S. Air Force has finally slain the BEAST. After 16 years, Basic Expeditionary Airman Skills Training will be retired, as the service changes the way it prepares recruits for combat. The once ...

Following is a transcript of the video. - Trainee: Move forward. Move forward. [explosions] Narrator: This... MTI: Stop talking when I'm talking! Narrator: Is Air Force boot camp. Before they join the ...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic has interrupted operations in a variety of institutional settings, necessitating considerable changes. Similarly, the COVID-19 outbreak had a negative ...

Airmen and Guardians will once again carry practice weapons during their nearly eight weeks of basic military training, a change that Department of the Air Force officials say is needed amid rising ...

Lt. Col. Mike O'Donnell, commander of 1st Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, delivers remarks for his soldiers' basic combat training graduation ceremony at Hilton Field, Fort Jackson, South Carolina ...

Army 1st. Lt. Chavonda Andrews, Voting Assistance Officer for 120th Adjutant General Battalion, stands next to a static voting information display in the battalion's building. (Sgt. Cierra Quinn/Army) ...

Women are at least twice as likely as men to be injured in Army basic training, according to data collected over six years by the service. Most of those injuries were musculoskeletal -- meaning they ...