Fourteen noncommissioned officers from 15th Regimental Signal Brigade received drill sergeant hats after completing a two-week conversion course at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Drill sergeants ...

these six NCOs were authorized to wear the female drill sergeant hat. The current drill sergeant hat evolved from the 1883 campaign hat. That headgear was a modified (flat brim versus upturned ...

They’re easy to spot. The male drill sergeants are in their signature brown round-brim hats. The women drill sergeants wear green “campaign” or Aussie bush hats with one side pulled up.

Teresa L. King took command of the Army’s drill sergeant school on Tuesday—the first woman ever to do so. The New York Times article on King notes that she’s “ever vigilant for busted ...

"There is a responsibility to being a drill sergeant. There is for an AIT platoon sergeant, but wearing that hat, and being called a drill sergeant and wearing that drill sergeant badge means ...

“Soldiers do fear the hat and badge,” Staff Sgt. Cortashia Shields, who is going through the 10-day conversion course here at the Drill Sergeant Academy, told Army Times on April 3.

While these soldiers walk and talk like drill sergeants, they don't wear the spiffy campaign hats. They don't earn the shiny drill sergeant badge. And the worst part: They don't earn any extra pay.

including seven on active duty — has been a drill sergeant the longest, finishing the school at Fort Jackson, S.C., in June 2009. Cross and Nanita first put on their hats in February.

"There is a responsibility to being a drill sergeant. There is for an AIT platoon sergeant, but wearing that hat, and being called a drill sergeant and wearing that drill sergeant badge means ...