Army efforts to field soldiers as adept as adversaries at using drones in combat are taking a detour from the field into the classroom in an effort to standardize operations training on the ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — Twenty-five Soldiers, from various units across the Army, are meeting on Fort Leonard Wood in the Digital Training Facility to take the inaugural Protection Integration Course ...

“We’re behind globally, and this is our aggressive attempt to close that gap,” said the director of the Fort Rucker, Alabama, course. By Patty Nieberg Published Aug 21, 2025 10:00 AM EDT Soldiers will ...

Chief Warrant Officer 3 Jakob Stavenau and Sgt. 1st Class Jeremy Charm, a 15W UAS Operator, fly the commercial UAS First Person View simulators during the inaugural Unmanned Advanced Lethality Course ...

The preparatory course at the heart of the recent surge in Army recruitment numbers will tighten its standards, although it was unclear if that meant it will produce fewer future soldiers. Potential ...

Gen. Gary Brito discusses the AH-64 Apache Longbow Crew Trainer at Fort Rucker, Alabama, November 2022. (Lt. Col. Andy Thaggard/Army) As the Army has adjusted its doctrine and modernized how it ...

Students in the Future Soldier Preparatory Course run around a track at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, in 2022. The DOD Office of Inspector General found the Army admitted recruits into the course who ...

FORT JACKSON, S.C. — Index cards taped to a large board on the wall at Fort Jackson, S.C., reveal the sometimes blunt and gritty reasons that new recruits took a chance at a last-ditch program to get ...