Pvt. Andrew Fraughton of A Battery, 1st Battalion, 79th Field Artillery, is fitted for the jacket of the Army Green Service Uniform Oct. 14,. (Mitch Meador/Army) About 200 trainees with the 434th ...

Army 1st. Lt. Chavonda Andrews, Voting Assistance Officer for 120th Adjutant General Battalion, stands next to a static voting information display in the battalion's building. (Sgt. Cierra Quinn/Army) ...

Military entry-level training, like most things in 2020, has been anything but normal this year. Recruits have spent the weeks leading up to boot camp or basic training sequestered in dorm rooms and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

WASHINGTON -- The drill sergeants yelled at him relentlessly, as Josh Oller pushed himself through the trying weeks of basic combat training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Oller had already endured ...

If you’ve observed Army recruits on their first day at basic training in recent years, you may have noticed something a little different: there isn’t quite as much screaming. It’s been almost two ...

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 ...

FORT SILL, Oklahoma (May 24, 2021) – Army families were invited to attend a basic combat training graduation ceremony May 21, for the first time since to global pandemic put a halt to public ...

It is unclear whether or not new recruits can bring personal skin care items to boot camp or basic training (Composite via Canva). With highly-involved skincare routines circulating throughout social ...

U.S. Space Force may not yet have its own boot camp, but the service's very first direct enlistees are about to head to entry-level training nonetheless. Chief Master Sgt. Roger Towberman, senior ...