So far, the Drill Sergeant Academy at Fort Jackson, South Carolina has converted 178 AIT platoon sergeants into drill sergeants, Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Berry, commandant of the academy, told ...

The platoon sergeants of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Special Troops Battalion, 21st Theater Sustainment Command, have a unique mission they perform in addition to their normal duties.

Drill sergeants participate in the so-called shark attack as trainees arrive on the first day of basic combat training at Fort Jackson, S.C. After years of relying on AIT platoon sergeants, the ...

For much of 2017, Army Training and Doctrine Command kept hinting that the advanced individual training platoon sergeant experiment was over. As of Nov. 17, the Army has decided to bring drill ...

On Aug. 16, 2008, a reconnaissance platoon with the 101st Airborne Division’s 61st Cavalry Regiment was dispatched to aid a besieged Afghan National Police station in Paktia province, Afghanistan.

FORT NOVOSEL-For Sgt. 1st Class Cody C. Randall, the U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence 2024 Noncommissioned Officer of the Year, the sport of wrestling appealed to him in high school and ...

Staff Sgt. Brandon Laspe, 169th Engineer Battalion, won the 2016 Army Advanced Individual Training Platoon Sergeant of the Year Competition. (Fort Leonard Wood photo) (KY3) By Edited news release.