Tag: military training

Think your military training was tough? Then check out these training exercises in history that you would not, for sure, want to go through.

Moulage. The art of applying mock injuries for the purpose of simulating real-world experience for emergency medical training. 

What does a 50,000 shock of electricity coursing through your body feel like? The trainees could answer that for you.

Could you be a drill sergeant in the making?

There have been more questions than answers about what the new ACFT is going to look like and, well, how hard it truly is.

One aspect of military life that is so attractive for so many is the intense fitness regime and the opportunity to engage in physical activities that you wouldn’t normally engage in. The downside of that is that military injuries are extremely common. It’s very rare to meet a member of the armed forces who has […]

While serving with the Israeli Defense Forces, I learned some hard lessons about close-quarters combat.

Back in 2006, when I was in Psychological Operations Group (Now called MISOG, or Military Information Support Group), I remember a colleague of mind dryly comment that we were the “red-headed stepchildren of SOCOM.” As such we would frequently be tasked to send personnel for an all-paid, all-exclusive trip to the hills of rural North […]

Her face puffy from lack of sleep, Vivika Barnabas peered down at the springs, rods and other parts of a disassembled assault rifle spread before her. At last, midway through one of this country’s peculiar, grueling events known as patrol competitions, she had come upon an easy task. Already, she and her three teammates had […]

Seven Afghan students training at U.S. military facilities disappeared just this month, the Pentagon confirmed, sparking security fears amid terror attacks in New York, New Jersey and Minnesota. Four students were considered absent without leave, or AWOL, from International Military Student programs over the Labor Day weekend, and three more during the September 17-18 weekend […]

SFAS is known as a grueling 21-day program in which candidates are identified only by a number, such as a “Candidate 122,” and receive the majority of their instructions from dry-erase boards.

Women are set to attend SOF training and join the force as operators, but the system may not be prepared to receive them.