Exploring how each U.S. military branch uniquely shapes recruits through distinct, challenging basic training experiences.

The U.S. Air Force has finally slain the BEAST. After 16 years, Basic Expeditionary Airman Skills Training will be retired, as the service changes the way it prepares recruits for combat. The once ...

Wendy Gallardo Gallegos was marching with a backpack as part of Air Force Security Forces training when she twisted her right foot. It swelled up painfully, a nightmare scenario for an airman basic, ...

An Army trainee died during one of the early events of basic combat training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina this week, officials said in a release. Pfc. Veronica L. Wynn was in her company’s ...

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 ...

For the first time in the history of basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, a Space Force-trained Guardian has been named as the top graduate. In a press release Tuesday, ...

Basic combat training is where civilians get rebuilt into soldiers through discipline, physical strain, and nonstop repetition of the fundamentals. We break down the red, white, and blue phases - from ...

From Green Berets to the S-1 clerk and everyone in between, every soldier has something in common with each other: they’ve all started their military careers at the U.S. Army’s Basic Combat Training.