Early Momentum: Army Hits 30,000 Recruits, Half its Goal for the Year The service has 30,000 new enlistments this year -- an increase of 6,000 compared to the same period last year, the data...
Surge of Female Enlistments Helped Drive Army Success in Reaching 2024 Recruiting Goal Nearly 10,000 women signed up for active duty in 2024, an 18% jump from the previous year, while male recruitment increased...
The Top 10 Military.com News Stories of 2024 This year's list includes investigations into abuse at military base child care facilities and alarming indications of cancer...
Hearing Loss, Asthma Won't Disqualify Air Force and Space Force Recruits Under New Policy The new waivers come as the Air Force managed to scrape by its active-duty recruiting goals, in large part due to policy...
Do Air Shows Really Help Military Readiness and Recruiting? Congress Plans to Find Out. Lawmakers want the secretary of defense to brief Congress on how sending military aircraft to air shows affects recruiting...
Navy Cuts Length of Boot Camp Amid Rise in Recruiting Totals The Navy says that, starting next month, it will shorten the length of its Basic Military Training program -- commonly known...
Female Teens Don't See Themselves in the US Military. Here's Why, According to Pentagon Surveys. Surveys find that just 21% of American females ages 16 to 21 were qualified to serve in the U.S. military compared with 25%...
Does the Military Need Social Media Influencers? New military influencers are popping up daily talking about military life -- the good, the bad and the ugly.
Camp Pendleton Marine Recruiter Arrested After Allegedly Contacting Minors for Sex Staff Sgt. Philip Rodriguez was booked after an internet crimes task force received a criminal report in February that...
Army Recruiters in Miami Will Pass Off Paperwork Duties as Service Tests New Strategy to Boost Enlistment The Army is set to launch a pilot program in January at two recruiting stations in the Miami area designed to cut through the...
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-Forty-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...