Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging suggests that stress experienced during basic combat training may dampen the brain’s ability to respond to rewarding outcomes. Researchers found that Army ...

Military entry-level training, like most things in 2020, has been anything but normal this year. Recruits have spent the weeks leading up to boot camp or basic training sequestered in dorm rooms and ...

Sailors in recruit division 012 present class and 2d Marine Division (MARDIV) guidons in the USS Midway Ceremonial Drill Hall during their boot camp graduation at Navy Recruit Training Command in ...

If you’ve observed Army recruits on their first day at basic training in recent years, you may have noticed something a little different: there isn’t quite as much screaming. It’s been almost two ...

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 ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is considering reversing a ban on the "shark attack," the time-honored aggressive practice used by drill sergeants to train U.S. Army recruits in basic training. The ...

A change at one of the Army’s basic training installations has resulted in a huge drop in reports of abusive sexual contact and sexual harassment among recruits in their first weeks of joining the ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is considering a revival of the "shark attack," a once-common drill where recruits are swarmed and screamed at by drill sergeants to instill discipline and readiness.

Soldiers fire the M4 carbine during marksmanship training at the indoor range Caserma Del Din, Vicenza, Italy, July 9, 2020. (Davide Dalla Massara/Army) When you cave in to a local recruiter and sign ...

Roughly 1 in 4 young adults are too overweight to qualify to serve in the military. But even a lot of the ones who make it through the recruiting process suffer injuries in basic training, some of ...

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 ...