VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — More than 40 feet up the tower at Fort Jackson, Army recruit Robert Smith missed setting his feet on the 4-by-4 plank from which he was to start rappelling down. “I said: ...

At 17 I finished high school and enlisted in the U.S. Army. My basic training platoon was a cross-section of America: two cousins from a little-known West Virginia holler; a trio of Alaskan Inuits, ...

Three-time Olympic athlete Anita Alvarez has earned herself a new title: airman. Alvarez graduated Air Force Basic Military Training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas on Jan. 9 — one of 781 ...

WASHINGTON — Last August, Daysia Holiday decided to try one more time to join the Army. She’d taken the academic test and failed three times. So, when she was offered a slot in a new Army prep course ...

When I was 49, I donated a kidney to my husband. Recovery from surgery was hard and painful, and my lifestyle certainly wasn’t supporting my healing. I was overweight, chronically stressed, ate a ...