FORT SILL, Okla. (Feb. 11, 2010) -- The Army is changing the way it trains its newest second lieutenants by merging two basic courses and having officers from the same branches train together from the ...
One by one, a group of basic cadets — covered in sweat and gasping for air — lunged out of a storage container filled with tear gas. The exercise was part of basic training, a 40-day period intended ...