WASHINGTON – A remedial course designed to prepare potential Army recruits for basic training will become a permanent part of the service’s strategy in overcoming its sagging enlistment numbers, ...

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 ...

Members of the Future Soldier Prep Course play a game of football with their instructor on August 22, 2022 at Fort Jackson, S.C. (Davis Winkie/Staff) FORT JACKSON, S.C. — On a humid August morning ...

WASHINGTON — The Army is widening access to its new preparatory course to allow a candidate to enroll in the fitness and academic tracks to help more potential recruits meet the service’s entry ...

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.

FORT JACKSON, South Carolina -- The Army's pre-basic training courses are here to stay and will likely be a fundamental tool for the service to fill the ranks amid falling academic performance and ...

Future Soldier Prep Course black hats are pictured in August 2022 at Fort Jackson, S.C. (Davis Winkie/Staff) The Army is doubling down on an ambitious accessions experiment that’s allowing hopeful ...

FORT MOORE, Ga. (WRBL) — Thousands of soldiers graduate from the basic training course each year. This morning on the parade field at the National Infantry Museum, graduation was just a little ...

The Army's pre-basic training courses for applicants who come up short on academic or body fat standards will expand this month as service leaders eye that effort as a potentially key tool to ...

FORT SILL, Oklahoma (Oct. 8, 2020) -- Fort Sill’s 434th Field Artillery Brigade uncased the colors of its newest basic combat training battalion at a ceremony on the Old Post Quadrangle Oct. 2.