The Army and Navy had early recruiting successes with new pre-basic training programs aimed at helping subpar applicants qualify for enlistment, but so far other service branches are reluctant to ...

Nearly 11,000 recruits were placed in the Army's delayed-entry program last year -- a program both of applicants who have not yet finished high school or cannot ship to basic training.

Brand-new recruits are now training how to counter enemy drones as they learn how to march and fire their rifles. New soldiers at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, are conducting counter-drone drills during ...

The Army has graduated 25,000 soldiers through pre-basic prep course Forge 2.5 ratchets up recruit learning by running large-scale combat operation scenarios, all while involving drill sergeants ...

The pre-basic training was introduced in August as a 90-day program for new recruits who are just outside of the Army's standards for body fat or came up short on the Armed Services Vocational ...

Traits That Predict Basic Training Success Soldiers attending Basic Combat Training conduct physical fitness training at Fort Jackson, S.C., Sept. 10, 2016. (Staff Sgt. J. Byers/U.S. Army Reserve) ...

The Forge, which has been part of Army basic training for several years, puts new soldiers through a three-day field training exercise that concludes with a 10-mile ruck march.