8 Tips to Improve Your Water Confidence Water confidence is a critical skill for anyone aiming to join a diving or special operations forces unit.
What a Group PT Workout on the Washington Mall Looks Like If you want a small taste of SEAL training, check out this routine put together by Stew Smith.
Tactical Fitness: Learn More About the Service Academy Acceptance and Application Process Stew Smith, Military.com's tactical fitness expert, talks about ways applicants can distinguish themselves on applications to...
Here's a Weekly Workout with a Special Ops Focus If you want to join a Special Ops outfit, make sure you actually enjoy the training required to perform.
Here Are Some Tips That Could Motivate You to Exercise What motivates you to train and do it consistently? Stew Smith, Military.com's tactical fitness expert, offers hard-earned...
Why You Should Get Comfortable Doing the 'Grinder Reminder' There are places that are not comfortable when doing sit-ups. Certainly, you can think of better places to practice than...
Favorite Swim Workouts for Military Training Programs There are many military training programs that require some level of proficiency in swimming. Here are a few workouts to...
Ask Stew: Is Adding Women into the Spec Ops Pipeline a Good Idea? Stew Smith, Military.com's tactical fitness expert, answers an email about incorporating women into Special Operations units.
Ask Stew: What Is a Ruck? Defining "ruck" is difficult to someone who has never moved out with 50+ lbs in a backpack for many, many miles.
Tips for Training in the Heat of the Summer Training in the summer takes some special consideration, especially if you live in a hot and humid environment.
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...
