A Closer Look at the Naval Academy Summer Seminar Each year, the service academies offer a weeklong “summer camp” to incoming high school seniors.
Breaking Down How to Improve Your Times with the Combat Swimmer Stroke The question received this week concerns how to get faster at the 500-yard swim for the Navy BUD/S, EOD and diver test.
How Proficient Should You Be at Swimming? While it is true the Navy recommends you have an above-average swimming ability, it does not require you to be a world-class...
Does CrossFit Have a Place in Special Operations Training? If you like to lift or do CrossFit, do it, but make it your warmup for the many other events you will be tested in at your...
Don’t Get Confused by the SEAL/SWCC Draft The Spec War Draft that is now being used to screen recruits before they get to SEAL or SWCC training is different from the...
How Interval Pyramid Tempo Training Can Make You a Faster Runner Retired Royal Commando “Sol” Sollerer shares an article about improving your pace with interval training.
How to Get Back in the Fitness Groove After an Injury or Illness Illnesses or injuries often occur and derail our fitness and progress. Getting back into it after several weeks or months can...
Here Are Some Favorite Core Training Exercises Using the TRX Some of the favorite exercises used by Stew Smith's Military Preparation Group-Heroes of Tomorrow are the following upper...
Stew’s Favorites: The Navy PST Practice taking the test you have to pass on a regular basis. And if you want to crush it, do it twice.
Stew’s Favorites: The Special Ops Triathlon You can arrange the run, swim and ruck of the Special Ops Triathlon in any order, but we often like to make it like a...
Pentagon Again Expanding Military Border Zones, This Time in Arizona The newest military zone in Arizona -- the fourth border zone created by the Trump administration -- will encompass 140 miles...
Football Dreams Led to 'Fat Boy Flight' and an Over-40-Year Air Force Career In 1971, as a high school senior and captain of the football team, I assumed a college athletic scholarship was in my future...
US Contractors Say Their Colleagues Are Firing Live Ammo as Palestinians Seek Food in Gaza Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal...
Tensions Are Rising Between Russia and Azerbaijan. Why Is This Happening Now? Deaths of ethnic Azerbaijanis rounded up by police for decades-old murders in a Russian city. The crash of an Azerbaijan...
Army Creating New Artificial Intelligence-Focused Occupational Specialty and Officer Field Service planners are moving to establish a new enlisted military occupational specialty focused on artificial intelligence...
