Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging suggests that stress experienced during basic combat training may dampen the brain’s ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Two sisters, about to pin a U.S. Army patch on their brother’s sleeve as he graduated from basic training, filmed a video of him trying not to break into laughter.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...