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 ...

SOMERSET — Dylan Rodriguez always wondered what an Army boot camp was all about. His father served in the armed forces and became an officer. This past summer, the Somerset Berkley senior running back ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...