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 ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth may bring back the practice of several Army drill sergeants swarming and screaming at recruits during basic training in what is known as a “shark attack.” The practice, ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is considering reversing a ban on the "shark attack," the time-honored aggressive practice used by drill sergeants to train U.S. Army recruits in basic training. The ...

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 ...

Drill sergeants traded in their campaign hats for patrol caps as they took aim in the 2026 U.S. Army Small Arms Championships at ...

Netflix’s new action thriller War Machine may feature an “unimaginable threat,” though director Patrick Hughes insists the ...

U.S. Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll, left, speaks to journalists while standing next to Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy A. George at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, on Tuesday, July 22, 2025. (Audrey ...

The U.S. Army’s training sites, such as the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, shown here, don’t replicate the terrain that the Army is most likely to fight on, warns a U.S. Army ...