When Jim Nabors found out that his Gomer Pyle character from The Andy Griffith Show was getting a spin-off in which the filling station attendant becomes a U.S. Marine, he researched how to act like a ...

COPPERAS COVE – Retired U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Aerial Vega spent three years as a drill instructor during her 20 years in the military, helping young recruits get in shape and learn to be soldiers.

Clinton Helms spent more than 20 years teaching in the U.S. Army and the Army reserve. Teaching recruits how to stand at attention, do close order drill and obey on command when he barked an order, ...

U.S. Army drill sergeants encourage a trainee on the first day of Basic Combat Training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. (Spc. Darius Davis/U.S. Army). Female drill sergeants will soon trade their ...

A recent exhibit added to the Museum of Veterans and Military in Vilonia, is a mannequin dressed in a uniform and campaign hat donated by Brady Zweifel of Vilonia, who currently serves as an Army ...

FORT GREGG-ADAMS, Va. — In a valley under the mountainous countryside of Puerto Rico, sat a boy laying plans at a table of men. In the quiet and historic town of San Germán, with its cobblestone ...

GRAFENWOEHR, Germany — U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Sonia McElfresh earned the title of Instructor of the Year 2023 at the 7th Army Noncommissioned Officer Academy (NCOA) Basic Leaders Course (BLC) graduation ...

Moments after the court-martial jury's guilty verdict was announced in the rape trial of Army drill instructor Sgt. Delmar G. Simpson, local NAACP official Janice Grant called it "an attack on the ...

ATLANTA — The U.S. military has not altered its training schedule during the summer despite soaring temperatures that have broken records daily across the United States, Pentagon officials have said. ...

The yelling, the sweat, the thousand-yard stares — these movies either nailed the chaos or missed it. Every service member has a story about navigating boot camp — the sand, the blisters, the broken ...