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 ...

An Eighth Army soldier uses a Drone Defender counter-small unmanned aerial system device during a training exercise February 2023 in South Korea. (Spc.William Hunter/Army) Soon brand new Army recruits ...

Students in the Future Soldier Prep Course attend a class with Army-issued tablets loaded with course materials in August 2022 at Fort Jackson, S.C. (Davis Winkie/Staff) A wider range of hopeful ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — 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 than drill ...

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For decades, new Army recruits were thrown into boot camp with the infamous Shark Attack, an intense introduction designed to ...