Army to Test Extended Infantry Training Program This Summer U.S. Army training leaders said Wednesday the service plans to extend infantry training.
Army Has Spent 18 Months Preparing for War in Korea: Milley Members of the House Appropriations Committee's defense subcommittee expressed a keen interest in possible contingency plans.
Mattis Wants Ground Combat Units to Be More Lethal in the Close Fight The U.S. Military's top leader has launched an effort to make ground forces deadlier in close combat.
Army to Stress More Emergency-Deployment Training in 2018 Soldiers can expect to go on more exercises designed to test a unit's ability to deploy with no notice.
Low Recruit Discipline Prompts Army to Redesign Basic Training The U.S. Army will soon launch a redesign of Basic Combat Training intended to build more discipline.
US Troops Learn 'Law of Jungle' Skills for New Threats Jungles are less familiar sights for this generation's soldiers who patrolled in deserts, mountains and urban landscapes.
First Two Women to Graduate Friday from Army Ranger School The West Point graduates, who have not been identified, are in their final days of the grueling two-month training program.
Two Women Make History by Graduating Army Ranger School Two female officers made history by becoming the first women to graduate from the traditionally all-male U.S. Army Ranger...
Army Revamps Ranger School, Leadership Courses The Ranger Training Brigade here recently overhauled the graded, combat patrol portion of Ranger School to make it less...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...