More than 80 military jobs are now designated as combat arms and must complete an additional branch-specific fitness test.

COLCHESTER — A few days after two women became the first female soldiers to pass the Army’s grueling Ranger School, a college junior in Vermont became a military pathfinder in her own right. At first, ...

WASHINGTON — In June of last year, the Army opened combat engineer jobs to female soldiers. Today, women are going through the school housed at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., and joining units around the ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — Of the four permanent individual skill tabs authorized for wear by the U.S. Army, one is earned exclusively at Fort Leonard Wood — the Sapper Tab. The only way to earn the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Women who have served in combat arms jobs say a new Pentagon review of their "effectiveness" is the latest example of doubts ...

YUMA, Ariz. – When Gunnery Sgt. Matthew Nygaard was named the 2025 Marine Corps Engineer Association Combat Engineer Staff Noncommissioned Officer of the Year, it was more than a personal accolade – ...

The U.S. Army is rolling out a new fitness test that will require female soldiers serving in combat jobs to be rated on the same score chart as their male counterparts, a move that comes after Defense ...