All You Want to Know About BUD/S Training This warning order is a course description of BUD/S, or Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL, training.
Ask Stew: How to Go from Your Plebe Year at the US Naval Academy to BUD/S Former Navy SEAL Stew Smith answers a question from a newly accepted high school graduate on how to prepare to enter the...
Ask Stew: How to Become a SEAL in Seven Steps Stew Smith, Military.com's tactical fitness expert, offers seven tips that could provide a pathway for teens to make it to...
6 Questions to Ask Yourself to Decide Whether SEAL Training Might Be Right for You A young man about to go to college emailed me with some specific questions about preparing for SEAL training as well as other...
How to Join Naval Special Operations Do you think you have what it takes to become a member of Naval Special Warfare or Special Operations?
What's Included on a Service Academy or ROTC Fitness Test Each branch of military service has similar requirements in its fitness testing, but there are some differences.
Ask Stew: 10 Questions About SEALs and Special Ops A high school junior asks some very commonly asked questions that should provide many future SEALs and Spec Ops members with...
Special Warfare Combatant Fitness Training Future SWCC operators go through an intensive course of instruction that is similar to SEAL training.
Navy SEALs: Missions SEALs are required to utilize a combination of specialized training, equipment and tactics in completion of Special Operation...
Ask Stew: How Do I Improve at Swimming Without Access to Water? A young Navy airman asked Stew Smith, Military.com's tactical fitness expert, about working on swimming while not having...
Marine Sergeant Sentenced to Confinement, Dishonorable Discharge and Reduction in Rank for Lejeune Killing Dakota Honstein pleaded not guilty and was acquitted of the most severe charge -- murder, also known as Article 118 in...
Here Are All the Big Cuts and Changes Coming to the Army The service's aim is to streamline the force while investing in emerging technologies that Army officials say are critical to...
Problems with Privatized Household Goods Shipments Prompt Hegseth to Order Immediate Changes The directive from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth follows a rash of issues with a contract meant to privatize the Defense...
A Single Server Holds All Navy Pay and Promotion Data. DOGE Canceled a Contract to Upload It to the Cloud. The Navy has been in a yearslong struggle to modernize its critically important human resources computer systems that...
Cots, MREs, Per Diem: Army Offers New Details for Soldiers Sent to Massive D.C. Military Parade Thousands of soldiers flying or busing into Washington, D.C., next month will be sleeping on cots, eating mostly MREs (and...