Army Opens its Doors to Recruits Who Fail to Meet Initial Body Fat and Academic Standards Amid Recruiting Crisis New enlistees who exceed body fat standards by as much as 6% will be placed into a training program for up to 90 days that...
ASVAB Test Explained The ASVAB test measures a person's strengths, weaknesses and potential for future success in military and civilian...
Coast Guard Turns Eye Toward Recruitment, Retention as It Misses Goals The service has not reached its accession goals since 2018, according to data it provided.
Army Drops Requirement for High School Diploma Amid Recruiting Crisis The service announced that individuals may enlist without previously required education certifications if they ship to basic...
Army Relaxes Tattoo Rules as It Scrambles for New Recruits Tattoos are still forbidden on the face and other parts of the head, with some exceptions for permanent makeup.
Army Extending Assignments for Recruiters Involuntarily as Service Scrambles to Fill Ranks So far, the service has selected 267 "high performing" recruiters to have their assignments involuntarily extended.
Solving the Fitness Spectrum Dilemma in Military Service Candidates represent a wide spectrum of fitness levels, and those varying levels need to be considered when preparing a group...
The Army Keeps Boosting Recruiting Bonuses as It Struggles to Find New Soldiers The Army has become more aggressive with major recruitment bonuses, especially for recruits who elect to ship out to basic...
Military Throwing Cash at Recruiting Crisis as Troops Head for the Exits For now, the services are leaning on record-level enlistment and retention bonuses meant to attract and keep America's...
Space Force Will Have Its First Guardians-Only Boot Camp Class Next Month Between May and June, 72 men and women will go through boot camp at Joint Base San Antonio, focused solely on becoming...
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...