Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is willing to do what it takes to reform the Pentagon into an organization capable ...

The 2025 Best Sapper Competition ended with a two-man team of Army Rangers coming in first, and in so doing, completing a near-sweep of major Army combat contests in 2025 by the elite unit, but it ...

Sergeant Major Janina Simmons says she was never really a big dreamer. " I didn't take anything seriously, I was very go home ...

Ten years ago, amid sometimes bitter debate, the first women began the Army's notoriously hard Ranger infantry training program. The same year, combat jobs across the military were opened to female ...

First Lt. Gabrielle White is the first woman to participate in the Army’s Best Ranger Competition. White and her teammate finished in the top 20 of the event. Soldiers in the contest participated in ...

Ranger development. Ranger background ; Korean War Ranger experience ; Reconnaissance on the eve of the Vietnam Conflict -- Americal Infantry Division : Americal Rangers. Combat reconnaissance in ...

A graduate of Summerville High School, who is now a veteran combat Ranger medic with five deployments in Afghanistan, was awarded the Soldier’s Medal, the Army’s highest award for valor and bravery in ...

The defense secretary ordered a review of women in combat roles, claiming standards were compromised — but the requirements ...

LAKE GARDA, ITALY (April 30, 2025) – Col. William O. Darby, a native of Fort Smith, Arkansas, graduated from West Point in 1933 and quickly emerged as a bold and dynamic leader. In 1942, he was ...

The Army's elite Ranger School, long regarded as one of the most grueling leadership courses in the military, is rolling out a new physical fitness assessment designed to better measure the endurance ...

Nearly five decades before Robert Brewer served as U.S. attorney in San Diego, he was an Army Ranger who, late one evening, found himself as the lone American embedded with South Vietnamese troops ...