For some of the football players arriving at the Air Force Academy for basic training at the end of June, the moment marked a finish line as much as launching point. Consider, for example, the ...

Year of the Coach series: A look at Hoover football pilot Brian Baum. Baum was in Army basic training when the 9-11 attacks hit. Coach talks about his football journey after return from Iraq. Sept. 10 ...

The Army is set to dramatically expand how many new recruits it can send to basic training this spring, riding the momentum of recent gains toward reversing a recruiting slump it has struggled with in ...

BILLERICA – High school football tryouts started Aug. 15, but Shawsheen Tech senior Ralph Raymond didn’t suit up until a week later. He wasn’t hurt. He wasn’t on vacation. He wasn’t sitting on his ...

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.

Every year, 30,000 civilians arrive at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland and leave 7½ weeks later as full-fledged U.S. Air Force airmen They rise early and spend their days marching, running and being ...