The United States military is no longer shooting live animals as part of its trauma training exercises for combat medics. The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, which was enacted on December 18, ...

A Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Sailor conducts her physical fitness assessment. (MC3 Julio Martinez Martinez/U.S. Navy) The U.S. Navy has introduced new evaluation standards to measure ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. military will stop its practice of shooting pigs and goats to help prepare medics for treating wounded troops in a combat ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Special Warfare Combat Crewman trainees face rigorous training, but they, and other combat arms sailors must now take an annual on ...

FORT DRUM, N.Y. (July 28, 2025) -- U.S. Navy Reserve medical personnel applied their life-saving skills during a battlefield stress test July 24 at Fort Drum’s Bridgewater-Vaccaro Medical Simulation ...

Navy SEAL trainees and other sailors hoping to join one of a handful of hard-charging Navy jobs have to pass many brutal fitness tests. But beginning this year, fully qualified SEALs and others in ...