Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. James McConville left, gestures to a student in the new Army prep course at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C., Friday, Aug. 26, 2022. McConville visited Fort Jackson to ...

After a year as a pilot program, the U.S. Army’s boot camp for basic training is becoming permanent. The Army Future Soldier Preparatory Course, which offers tracks for recruits to improve on their ...

The U.S. Army’s top civilian official said that a program launched this year to help potential recruits meet academic and physical standards has been successful and now the service wants to expand it.

Columbia, South Carolina — The recruits are up before dawn at Fort Jackson, an Army base in South Carolina. But this is not your father's boot camp. Instructors here act more like personal trainers ...