Applicants can join the Army with up to 6% more body fat than the rules allow and go to the prep course before basic training. For men, that limit is between 20% and 26% body fat, depending on age.

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 ...

The course has run primarily in Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and gives new recruits who might not make the physical or academic cutoff to qualify for Army basic training up to 90 days to improve ...

The Army can graduate some 20,000 recruits out of those pre-basic training courses it otherwise would not have been able to recruit -- effectively making up the service's deficit.

FILE - Students gather during physical training exercises in the new Army prep course at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C. Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. The Army will expand its basic combat training for ...

Buoyed by an increase in recruiting, the Army will expand its basic combat training in what its leaders hope reflects a turning point as it prepares to meet the challenges of future wars. The ...

But as the prep course grows, those units are not available to do basic training. “We don’t want to mess with that because right now that formula’s working and it’s provided a lot of value ...

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The added training will begin in October and comes as the Army tries to reverse years of dismal recruiting when it failed to meet its enlistment goals. New units in Oklahoma and Missouri will ...