It is often recommended to build up your running to 50 miles a week for various military special operations programs within the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. While those programs involve ...

Previously, the course allowed potential recruits to work on both losing weight and meeting the Army’s academic requirements.

Nearly five years ago, the Army moved away from the practice of several drill sergeants surrounding trainees and yelling at them to establish dominance at the start of basic training — a practice ...

Armies should train for the battlefields they fight on. But the U.S. Army’s training sites don’t replicate the terrain that the Army is most likely to fight on, such as the Baltic states, Korea and ...

Recruits who meet certain skill requirements are eligible to go into the service with modified training and at a higher rank ...

Figure 1. A 5th Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, "Long Knife" Trooper qualifying on their M240 at Fort Riley, Kansas (Photo by author) A wise mentor told me that command­ers are responsible for ...

If you are looking to shave seconds (or even minutes) off your run times, you might think the answer is simply to run more miles per week or push harder on your goal-paced intervals. However, as ...