Air Force Offers Easy Specialty Changes to Keep Airmen in Uniform Airmen who just joined the Air Force and want to do another job will get more options to keep them from leaving the service...
Army Expects to Miss Its Recruiting Goal Again This Year The Army does not expect to hit its ambitious recruiting goal of 65,000 new soldiers this year as the pool of young Americans...
The 6 Biggest Mistakes Recruits Make in Tactical Fitness As a military recruit, the first obstacles for many are meeting the physical fitness and height/weight standards just to...
Specialist Among the First to Be Awarded the Army's New Recruiting Ribbon The Army's new award is part of the service's push to bolster recruitment efforts after its most dismal recruiting year in...
Recruits, Especially from the South, Are Getting Injured at Alarming Rates in Basic Training Southern states contribute the most Army recruits compared to each state's general population of young adults.
Air Force Will Allow More Body Fat for Recruits as Service Struggles to Find New Airmen Male recruits are now allowed to have up to 26% body fat, and women are allowed 36%, a Air Force Recruiting Service...
Why Some in the Military Might Not Celebrate a TikTok Ban "A ban would certainly win the praise of many military leaders, but some in recruitment circles may not be so thrilled."
Pentagon Critics Blame Diversity Policies and Fitness Standards for Recruiting Woes The report, authored by a panel handpicked by Heritage, includes a poll of troops and civilians, and a bevy of citations to...
Army Ditches New Ads After Jonathan Majors' Arrest But Plans to Film Replacements The Army is frantically moving to replace ads that featured an actor facing legal action ahead of what had been planned as a...
Experts Question Military Recruiting Fixes Such as Pre-Boot Camp Courses The recruiting crisis has been growing for several years and has hit every branch of the military.
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...