COPPERAS COVE – Retired U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Aerial Vega spent three years as a drill instructor during her 20 years in the military, helping young recruits get in shape and learn to be soldiers.

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-CAMP BULLIS, Texas — Instructors, drill sergeants and newly graduated combat medics recently spent the day with 200 Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets from San Antonio ...

U.S. Army drill sergeants encourage a trainee on the first day of Basic Combat Training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. (Spc. Darius Davis/U.S. Army). Female drill sergeants will soon trade their ...

The bush hat and its upturned brim that once set female Army drill sergeants apart is being retired as part of the Army’s move toward a unified look for those in the iconic role. The change to the ...

The yelling, the sweat, the thousand-yard stares — these movies either nailed the chaos or missed it. Every service member has a boot camp story — the sand, the blisters, the broken sleep, the recruit ...

The total number of active duty female officers in the U.S. Army sits just below 16,000, according to data from the January 2015 Active Duty Master Personnel File. Given that this number makes up only ...

CAMP ASHLAND — When Sgt. Jennifer Feldt prepared for drill instructor training in South Carolina, she didn’t know it would make her a record-holder. A few weeks before she left Kearney for the ...

In late 1962, Secretary of the Army Elvis J. Stahr Jr. directed Under Secretary of the Army Stephen Ailes to conduct a survey of recruit training in the Army. This survey was conducted over a long ...

Female drill sergeants will soon trade their upturned brims for the iconic, olive campaign hat long worn by their male counterparts, an Army spokesman confirmed Monday. Beginning in early January next ...